Google’s newest swing at Chromebook gaming is a free yr of GeForce Now

Earlier this yr, Google introduced the top of its efforts to get Steam operating on Chromebooks, however it’s not executed making an attempt to make these low-power laptops into gaming machines. Google has teamed up with Nvidia to supply a model of GeForce Now cloud streaming that’s perplexingly restricted in some methods and beneficiant in others. Starting as we speak, anybody who buys a Chromebook will get a free yr of a brand new service referred to as GeForce Now Fast Pass. There aren’t any advertisements and fewer ready for server slots, however you don’t get to play very lengthy.

Back earlier than Google killed its Stadia recreation streaming service, it might typically throw in a couple of months of the Pro subscription with Chromebook purchases. In the absence of its personal gaming platform, Google has turned to Nvidia to degree up Chromebook gaming. GeForce Now (GFN), which has been round in a single kind or one other for greater than a decade, means that you can render video games on a distant server and stream the video output to the machine of your selection. It works on computer systems, telephones, TVs, and sure, Chromebooks.

The new Chromebook function will not be the identical GeForce Now subscription you will get from Nvidia. Fast Pass, which is exclusive to Chromebooks, features a mishmash of limits and bonuses that make it a reasonably unusual providing. Fast Pass relies on the free tier of GeForce Now, however customers will get precedence entry to server slots. So no queuing for 5 or 10 minutes to start out taking part in. It additionally lacks the advertisements that Nvidia’s normal free tier consists of. Fast Pass additionally makes use of the extra highly effective RTX servers, that are in any other case restricted to the $10-per-month ($100 yearly) Performance tier.