Worlds are colliding, as Nvidia’s stream-the-games-you-already-own service and Microsoft’s all-you-can-eat recreation subscription service (which additionally does streaming, typically!) get just a little bit nearer. Nvidia has added the flexibility to sync your Xbox account to the GeForce Now streaming service, making PC video games linked to your Xbox account playable over Nvidia’s servers.

Crucially, that additionally includes games in the Xbox Game Pass PC library, if you happen to’re at the moment subscribed. By the present rely, that’s over 300 video games you possibly can entry for simply $10 a month, together with some fairly latest indies and big-budget titles from Microsoft’s developer secure, like Starfield. (GeForce Now streaming is free, although you’ll need to pay for the longest periods and finest visuals.) A whole lot of these video games can already be streamed through the Xbox Cloud Gaming system, however a few of these that may’t now have the choice through Nvidia’s streaming system as a substitute of Microsoft’s.

It’s an fascinating transfer, to make certain. Xbox Game Pass with its library of subscription console and PC video games is ostensibly a competitor to GeForce Now, albeit with a markedly completely different worth proposition. This partnership seems to be fallout from the Microsoft-Activision acquisition (say that 5 occasions quick), by which the previous promised to not monopolize the rising recreation streaming market. The Verge reports that the present deal must be in place for 10 years, and that Activision-Blizzard titles are set to hit GeForce Now quickly, after the writer removed them from the service in 2020.

That’s on prime of GeForce Now’s current account syncing choices, which offer you entry to the GFN-compatible PC video games you’ve bought from Steam, Epic, and Ubisoft’s Ubisoft. There’s additionally a brand new promotion on the service: If you join six months of GeForce Now Ultimate ($100, 8-hour play timers and RTX 4080-powered distant servers), you get three months of PC Game Pass totally free.