Fortnite also returns to iPhone thanks to GeForce Now

Currently, the only way to play Fortnite on iOS – at least without playing from a distance from a console or a PC – is via the Cloud Gaming. The game is also available for free via the Xbox Cloud Gaming service. And you don’t even need an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription to take advantage of it if you decide to go through this option.

Fortnite is now accessible to all NVIDIA GeForce NOW users

Fortnite is now accessible to all NVIDIA GeForce NOW users. This should appeal to many fans.

All GeForce Now users can now play Fortnite Via the NVIDIA Cloud Gaming service, including those who have an iOS or Android device. The company had started testing the game on the platform last January. She explains today that more than 500 00 people have tried it on “hundreds of types of mobile devices”. The complete launch of Fortnite on GeForce No means that there is no longer a waiting list and that everyone can join a game.

Fortnite is now accessible to all NVIDIA GeForce NOW users

Beta tester feedback helped Nvidia optimize touch controls and menus. To thank them, the company offers all those who have signed up for this beta a three -day test for the GeForce Now Priority offer. The latter allows longer sessions than the free version, with improved graphics and access to premium servers. Only three days of free trial is not really very generous, but it is better than nothing, certainly.

This should appeal to many fans

Currently, the only way to play Fortnite on iOS – at least without playing from a distance from a console or a PC – is via the Cloud Gaming. The game is also available for free via the Xbox Cloud Gaming service. And you don’t even need an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription to take advantage of it if you decide to go through this option.

Apple and Google had withdrawn Fortnite from their application blind in August 2020 during their “argument” with Epic Games ”. If Android device owners can always install the game outside of Google Play, iOS players, they found themselves without solution, until the option of cloud gaming appears at least at least. So it’s a good thing for players fans of Fortnite.

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Fortnite also returns to iPhone thanks to GeForce Now

Announced in January, Fortnite takes advantage of the power of GeForce Now to storm all platforms, especially Android and iOS. As with Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia’s service unrolls the red carpet at Epic Games which thus signs a return to fanfare on all supports.

[Update of the article initially published on January 13 with public deployment]

Months and months after being expelled from the App Store and the Play Store, Fortnite starts to reconquer smartphones and tablets thanks to a shock ally: GeForce Now.

In mid-January, the Cloud Gaming platform announced the upcoming arrival of the famous Battle Royale on iOS and Android through its service. Since Thursday, May 19, it has now been effective, after a closed beta with more than 500,000 players.

Now, all registered in GeForce Now, whatever the level of subscription even free, can therefore enjoy the game of Epic Games on PC, Mac, Nvidia Shield, but especially smartphone and tablets from which the game was officially banished.

To succeed in this sleight of hand around Epic Games, Nvidia has therefore transformed the PC version available in its catalog in a version accessible from any device. But to take advantage of it, it will nevertheless have to use a little strategy.

The feint of the cloud gaming

Google and Apple having excluded Fortnite From their application shops, it is actually through the Safari browser on iOS that players will be able to fight on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad). Nvidia had in the past announced the compatibility of GeForce Now on Safari in order to bypass the prohibition made by Apple of an identified application. If you are on an Android mobile device, you can simply use the GeForce Now app for this.

Nvidia joins in this is Xbox who announced a partnership with Epic Games to make Fortnite The first free game accessible to all players via its Xbox Cloud Gaming service, even without having a Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.

Tactile checks specially designed for Fortnite

Everything has nevertheless already been planned by Nvidia for this great return of Fortnite mobile. The graphics card specialist explains that he worked in close collaboration with Epic Games to treat the functions of the game and develop a tactile version perfectly suited to cloud gaming as well as to the Battle Royale requirements.

Tactile commands are thus offered. They were specifically designed by GeForce Now teams which usually encourage to connect a game controller yet.

Win-win for Epic and Nvidia. The only thing you have to expect, it is access to servers that are obviously much more priority and for a longer period of game session if you have a priority subscription or the latest RTX 3080.

A new vision for the PC game on mobile

By offering oneself Fortnite For mobile versions, GeForce Now achieves a nice blow and shows that he also has a hand on many free games in his catalog as on supports other than PC. It is also a demonstration of Nvidia’s ability to offer publishers a “mobile” version of their games to make them available to the greatest number of players, in addition to knowing know-how in the creation of tactile orders.

The Californian company has already announced it: it works with other publishers to provide other PC titles on smartphones and tablets even more easily. And the message is strong: make a demanding PC game compatible with any mobile device thanks to the power of servers and with the promise of graphic evolutions as techniques opens new horizons to game publishers.

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