Nvidia Brings Ad-free Cloud Gaming To New Chromebooks (theverge.com)
(Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:17PM (msmash)
from the skip-the-line dept.)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/20/1924218/nvidia-brings-ad-free-cloud-gaming-to-new-chromebooks
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/824940/chromebooks-nvidia-geforce-now-fast-pass-free-year
Nvidia and Google announced today a new cloud gaming plan called GeForce Now Fast Pass that is exclusive to Chromebooks. Anyone who purchases a new Chromebook [1]will receive a year of the service included with their device at no additional charge. Fast Pass allows Chromebook owners to stream more than 2,000 games from their existing Steam, Epic or Xbox libraries.
The service removes ads and lets users skip the queue that typically adds two minutes or more of wait time on GeForce Now's free tier. Users get 10 hours of cloud gaming each month. Up to five unused hours can roll over to the following month. Nvidia offers other paid plans starting at $9.99 per month that support higher resolutions, faster frame rates, RTX ray-tracing, and access to a larger game library that includes thousands of additional titles. The companies did not announce pricing for Fast Pass after the first year ends.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/824940/chromebooks-nvidia-geforce-now-fast-pass-free-year
The service removes ads and lets users skip the queue that typically adds two minutes or more of wait time on GeForce Now's free tier. Users get 10 hours of cloud gaming each month. Up to five unused hours can roll over to the following month. Nvidia offers other paid plans starting at $9.99 per month that support higher resolutions, faster frame rates, RTX ray-tracing, and access to a larger game library that includes thousands of additional titles. The companies did not announce pricing for Fast Pass after the first year ends.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/824940/chromebooks-nvidia-geforce-now-fast-pass-free-year
Chromebook Gamers !!! (Score:1)
by meandmatt ( 2741421 )
Hello ISP! I am calling again to complain about my connections, it works fine when ping is 8ms, but every time it drop to 28ms, I loose my ranking. I just KNOW something is wrong. Your network exists for the express purpose of letting me play games on a Chromebook. Now, I want a credit, so I can re-buy my loot box that you made me loose. You're wasting my valuable time. Windows gamers with expensive PCs are bad enough. Now we have Chromebook gamers?
This isn't an article. (Score:2)
by PubJeezy ( 10299395 )
This isn't an article, its is an ad. The Verge should be blacklisted as a source. There is no journalism occurring anywhere near The Verge.
"Ad free" won't last (Score:2)
by Tony Isaac ( 1301187 )
Don't worry, as soon as they get enough people hooked, they'll bring back the ads.
Good luck with that (Score:2)
I'm sure this will be as successful as all of the other times it was tried. What was the Google version of this that they eventually dragged out behind the shed several years ago called again? Stadia? Or was that some other failed attempt at this. NVidia has more money coming in than this could ever hope to bleed, but they're not exactly known for doing anything that doesn't make them even more money.
What developer would sign their game up for this anyway? If this were successful it's the Spotify model a
Re: (Score:3)
Chromebooks suck. Just another attempt at trying to get more sales and user's sweet, sweet private data to monetize.
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It is amusing how many times we see the thin client / fat server model again and again.