GeForce NOW is getting some legacy titles from Blizzard this week, including those in the StarCraft franchise. As a long-time GeForce NOW user, it’s a little surreal to see Blizzard games coming back into the fold. If you remember back from the GeForce NOW beta, Activision Blizzard games used to be available on the service. NVIDIA removed these about four years ago and players weren’t exactly thrilled about it. This was of course not NVIDIA’s fault, as Activision Blizzard requested that its games be removed from the service.
Thus ending the ability to play any of them on GeForce NOW before the service ever fully launched. Fast forward to late last year, Activision made its return to GeForce NOW with the Call of Duty HQ. It then finally added some Blizzard titles in February of this year, including Diablo IV, Overwatch 2, and Hearthstone. As of today, four more Blizzard games are being added.
StarCraft: Remastered and three more Blizzard games come to GeForce NOW
StarCraft and Diablo fans are eating well this week, because each franchise has two games joining the GeForce NOW library. This includes StarCraft: Remastered, StarCraft II, Diablo II: Resurrected, and Diablo III. If you own any of those games on battlenet, you can play them in the cloud now. Keep in mind that you won’t be able to play some of these on your phone or tablet. Only one of the four has controller support and that’s Diablo II: Resurrected. The other three only support mouse and keyboard.
That being said, you might be able to get these to work with a wireless mouse and keyboard setup. It wouldn’t be the most practical though. However, if you have a laptop that isn’t very powerful, this is a perfect use case for some GeForce NOW gaming. Blizzard still has a few games that aren’t on the service, such as World of Warcraft, which a lot of players are probably hoping for. But with more titles being added, there’s a chance that Blizzard’s full roster of games may eventually make it over.
There are 12 more games to enjoy this week
If you’re not into the Blizzard games being added today, there are still 12 more new games being added this week. This includes Dead Island 2 (the Steam version), Bellwright, Phantom Fury, Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, Age of Water, Manor Lords, 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far, Dragon’s Dogma 2 Character Creator and Storage, Islands of Insight, Metaball, Stargate: Timekeepers, and Tortuga – A Pirate’s Tale.
Additionally, Remnant II’s ‘The Forgotten Kingdom’ expansion is available this week. Outside of new games, NVIDIA is pushing out an update to GeForce NOW that adds additional AV1 support for more devices. This includes the Mac M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max. So if you own any of those Mac computers, you can properly stream GeForce NOW games going forward.