Activision Blizzard pulls its games from Nvidia GeForce Now

A week ago, we reported that Nvidia had officially launched its GeForce Now game streaming service. The services gives gamers the ability to stream games to PC, Mac, Nvidia Shield, and other Android devices from their Steam, Epic Games Store, Uplay, and, previously, Battle.net libraries. Yesterday, Nividia announced that Activision Blizzard requested that all their games be removed from GeForce Now.

According to HotHardware, Nvidia was surprised by this sudden move on Activision Blizzard's part, as the two companies worked together on GeForce Now in its beta stages. Activision Blizzard's library has a massive playerbase, so losing these games is not good news for GeForce Now. Nvidia is definitely aware of this fact, as the announcement states:

While unfortunate, we hope to work together with Activision Blizzard to reenable these games and more in the future.

Activision Blizzard has not given any explanation of its sudden move. It certainly does seem strange that the company would partner with Nvidia on GeForce Now in preparation for the service's launch, then pull its whole library only a week after the service goes live. A possible answer to this conundrum is that Activision Blizzard is developing its own streaming service or got a better deal with another streaming service.

We recently reported that Google is working to bring more games to its Stadia cloud gaming service, so perhaps Google shelled out the big bucks for Activision Blizzard's library. However, nothing at all to that effect has been confirmed, so only time can tell what happens to the company's game library.

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