Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now to Come to iOS Through Safari
On Thursday November 19th Google and Nvidia both revealed that their own cloud game streaming services will begin supporting iOS devices but not in the way you may suspect.

Previously Apple has made it very clear that they don't want any game streaming services available through the App Store. But in a recent revision Apple made to their App Store Guidelines, they opened up a window for cloud based streaming app to list games on the App Store as individual apps. Even with those revisions developers still aren’t happy. To bypass these rules however these companies have decided to take a new route. Safari Web Apps, Both Nvidia and Google have confirmed plans to release a web app to allow iOS users to be able to play their favorite games on their iOS devices from the cloud.

Google Stadia

Google hasn’t really said too much about how or when they plan to bring Stadia to iOS but they did tweet mid-day Thursday confirming their plans to do so.

What they did note in the article from Polygon, is that the roll out will begin “several weeks from now”

Nvidia GeForce Now

In a press release from Nvidia early Thursday, Nvidia announced that starting today a beta for streaming with GeForce Now on iOS devices will begin. Nvidia says “[The GeForce Now iOS Beta will allow] more than 5 million GeForce NOW members can now access the latest experience by launching Safari from iPhone or iPad”. According to the press release members can test out the iOS beta by simply going to play.geforcenow.com, but Nvidia also says that anyone can sign up and people can take advantage of the free version of the service “to test the waters”

With Nvidia GeForce Now being tested on iOS devices, Nvidia also announced that Fortnite will soon be available on the service which in turn will also bring the return of Fortnite to iOS devices after Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store after Epic Games wouldn’t comply with Apples In-app purchase policy.
['Andrew Maust']
['Gaming', 'Technology', 'Technology News', 'Game Development', 'iOS']