At Gamescom, the world’s largest gaming trade show, NVIDIA once again pushed the boundaries of gaming technology to ensure gamers have incredibly immersive experiences and enjoy improved performance and image fidelity.
The company’s announcements today include its first digital human technology model for small device languages, which was introduced in the first game tech demo, Mecha-BREAKa milestone celebration of 600 RTX games and apps with the announcement of 20 new RTX games and new games on GeForce NOW.
In addition, NVIDIA announced a collaboration with MediaTek to make G-SYNC display technology accessible to even more gamers.
At Gamescom, which takes place every year in Cologne, innovators from across the gaming community showcase their latest creations. In 2018, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang unveiled NVIDIA RTX at the event, which brought real-time ray tracing and AI to gaming and set a new standard for graphics performance.
NVIDIA ACE: Developing AI-powered game characters
Among NVIDIA’s key announcements at Gamescom was NVIDIA ACE, a revolutionary technology suite to bring digital humans to life with generative AI.
The first game to showcase ACE and digital human technologies is Amazing Seasun Games’ Mecha-BREAKa fast-paced mech combat game that demonstrates the potential of AI-powered game characters.
The ACE suite has also been enhanced with NVIDIA’s first digital on-device small language model (SLM), NVIDIA Nemotron-4 4B Instruct, which improves character conversation. This new on-device model provides better role-playing, fetch-enhanced generation, and function call capabilities, allowing characters to more intuitively understand player instructions, respond to players, and perform more accurate and relevant actions.
Perfect World Games continues to develop its ACE and Digital Human Tech demo, Legends, with new AI-powered image processing features that enable new levels of immersion and accessibility for PC gaming.
Celebrating 600 RTX games and apps with 20 new RTX titles
NVIDIA RTX continues to revolutionize the way people play and create with ray tracing, DLSS, and AI-powered technologies. Today, another RTX milestone is reached: 600 RTX-optimized games and applications are now available.
This week, NVIDIA announced 20 new RTX and DLSS titles to add to this impressive list, including high-profile games such as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Dune: The Awakening And Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Game Science’s long-awaited Black Myth: Wukong Also launching today, the GeForce RTX 40 Series features full ray tracing and DLSS 3, providing GeForce RTX 40-series gamers with the ultimate RTX experience.
Half-Life 2: An RTX Remix Project Reveals Remastered Nova Prospekt
Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project by Orbifold Studios is a community remaster of Valve’s classic game. With over 100 artists involved, Orbifold Studios unveiled a remaster of one of the Half-life 2s most iconic level, Nova Prospekt.
Using NVIDIA RTX Remix, Orbifold Studios has remastered Nova Prospekt with full ray tracing, DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction, and Reflex. The Nova Prospekt trailer also shows off remasters of Gordon’s revolver, shotgun, and Overwatch standard issue pulse rifle, remasters of the Combine soldiers and antlions, and the addition of new geometry and details that leverage the capabilities of modern PCs to increase realism.
NVIDIA and MediaTek bring G-SYNC display technologies to more gamers
NVIDIA and MediaTek are working together to make the industry’s best gaming display technologies more accessible.
The companies’ collaboration will integrate the full suite of NVIDIA G-SYNC technologies into the world’s most popular scalers, enabling the development of feature-rich G-SYNC monitors at a more affordable price.
A highlight of this collaboration is the introduction of G-SYNC Pulsar, a new technology that delivers four times better motion sharpness and a smooth and stutter-free Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) experience. G-SYNC Pulsar will be featured on newly announced monitors such as the ASUS ROG Swift 360Hz PG27AQNR, Acer Predator XB273U F5, and AOC AGON PRO AG276QSG2.
GeForce NOW raises the bar for cloud gaming
Every week on GFN Thursday, geforcenow.com adds premium PC games available to stream in the cloud with peak performance from GeForce RTX SuperPODs, along with new features and updates for members.
GeForce NOW adds the highly anticipated action RPG for Gamescom Black Myth: Wukong from Game Science, as well as a demo for the upcoming PC version of FINAL FANTASY XVI from Square Enix. A new update brings automatic sign-in to Xbox, allowing members to quickly jump into their PC games across devices by linking their account just once.
These latest GeForce NOW updates – available today – raise the bar for cloud gaming and build on recent milestones including added support for mods, new data centers in Japan and Poland, and 2,000 games available in the cloud. For more details, see the GeForce NOW Gamescom blog.
star Wars Outlaws: GeForce RTX 40 Series Bundle
In collaboration with Ubisoft, Massive Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games, NVIDIA is launching a new star Wars Outlaws GeForce RTX 40 Series Bundle. Players experience the first open-world star Wars Game set between the events of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back And Star Wars: Return of the Jedienhanced with NVIDIA DLSS 3.5, ray tracing and reflex technologies. It will also be available in the cloud on GeForce NOW.
For all the latest news and details on NVIDIA’s latest announcements at Gamescom, visit GeForce News.
