CLOUD STRIFE

GeForce Now actually works. Let’s just take a second for that statement to permeate: After a decade of embarrassing showings from cloud gaming services like OnLive and Gaikai that always showed us games smeared in vaseline and with the reaction speeds of a tectonic plate, there’s now one that really does let you play top-end PC games using the strength of your internet connection alone.

Well, that and a server farm full of RTX 3080s, which we’ve had a famously hard time getting our hands on at consumer level since release. Still, it’s a profound achievement on technological terms—the two-way transfer of data that can manage