When you fire up your favorite game, you’re playing it instantly. That’s what it means to be Game Ready on GeForce NOW. The experience has been optimized for cloud gaming and includes Game Ready Driver performance improvements. NVIDIA manages the game updates and patches. And when a game supports RTX, you can play it on GeForce NOW with beautifully ray-traced graphics and DLSS 2/3.

The GeForce NOW library is ever-growing. In an effort to help spotlight the games that are coming to the service, we’re moving to a monthly cadence for announcing new instant access games. Games will continue to be released every week – with new game launches available day-and-date, and back catalog games released each Thursday – but our members, and your readers, will now be able to learn about what’s coming a little further in advance.

Rush to the cloud — stream Counter-Strike 2 on GeForce NOW for the highest frame rates. Members can play through the newest chapter of Valve’s elite, competitive, first-person shooter from the cloud.

It’s all part of an action-packed GFN Thursday, with 22 more games joining the cloud gaming platform’s library, including Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged.

“Rush B! Rush B!”

Counter-Strike 2 is the long-awaited upgrade to one of the most recognizable competitive first-person shooters in the world.

Building on the legacy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the latest iteration brings the action to Valve’s long-anticipated Source 2 video game engine, promising enhanced graphical fidelity with a physically based rendering system for more realistic textures and materials, dynamic lighting, reflections and more.

Smoke grenades are now dynamic volumetric objects that can interact with their surroundings by reacting to lighting and other environmental effects. And smoke particles work with the unified lighting system, allowing for more realistic light and color.

Even better: GeForce NOW Ultimate members can take full advantage of NVIDIA Reflex for ultra-low-latency gameplay streaming from the cloud. Rush the objective with the squad on Counter-Strike 2’s remastered maps at up to 240 frames per second — a first for cloud gaming. Upgrade today for the Ultimate Counter-Strike experience.

Vroom, Vroom!

There’s more action around every turn of the GeForce NOW library. Put the pedal to the metal in Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged, one of 22 newly supported games joining this week:

• Wizard With a Gun (New release on Steam, Oct. 17)
• Alaskan Road Truckers (New release on Steam and Epic Games Store, Oct. 18)
• Hellboy: Web of Wyrd (New release on Steam, Oct. 18)
• AirportSim (New release on Steam, Oct. 19)
• Eternal Threads (New release on Epic Games Store, Oct. 19)
• Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged (New release on Steam, Oct. 19)
• Laika Aged Through Blood (New release on Steam, Oct. 19)
• Battle Chasers: Nightwar (Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)
• Black Skylands (Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)
• Blair Witch (Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Dead by Daylight (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Dune: Spice Wars (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Everspace 2 (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• EXAPUNKS (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Gungrave G.O.R.E (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Railway Empire 2 (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Techtonica (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Torchlight III (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
• Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy (Epic Games Store)
• Vampire Survivors ( Xbox, available on PC Game Pass)