Shortly after the service launched, Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service lost permission to support many of the big, graphics-intensive games that had made it useful; publishers including Activison, Capcom, and Bethesda were leaked, This was a serious blow to the service, but a little over a month later, things are starting to look up.

Nvidia has begun announcing support for new games every Thursday, and this regular stream suggests a certain confidence. The addition of "Control" with RTX ray tracing support last week and the addition of "Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord" earlier this week was also good news. [However, the same cannot be said for all games joining the GeForce Now compatibility list. Other games added this week, such as the nine-year-old standalone expansion of the original "Mount & Blade," are not games we had trouble running even on our aging PCs. Here is the full list of new GeForce Now-enabled games for this Thursday:

SpeedRunners and Danganronpa 2 are great games, but you don't need to use the latest cloud streaming technology to play them Nvidia now, signing deals from all kinds of publishers to increase the size of its library, and acquiring big new games is proving more difficult than anticipated.

However, if you have an older PC, "Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord" might be a good candidate for GeForce Now streaming. So far, I'm enjoying the absurd, violent, freeform medieval sandbox, and will publish a performance analysis soon.

If you're not familiar with GeForce Now, it streams games like Google Stadia, but you don't have to purchase a streaming-only version of the game you want to play. games you want to stream from Steam or the Epic Store. If you already own it and GeForce Now is allowed to support it, you can stream it.

As this lackluster announcement underscores, the problem for Nvidia so far has been getting publishers to agree to make their games compatible with the service, making GeForce Now just another way to play legitimately purchased games ( While some see it as a remote computer and nothing more, many publishers clearly see Nvidia as profiting from their games and will not participate in this without negotiating a contract. On this topic, Wes elaborated on this controversy last month.