GFN Thursday – GeForce News & Updates For August 21st 2025

GFN Thursday

What a week it has been for GeForce NOW, with this week’s GFN Thursday update showing no signs of slowing down!

To recap, this week, GeForce NOW dropped some major news. The GeForce NOW cloud gaming service will be undergoing its biggest upgrade to date. It will bring the power of an RTX 5080 gaming rig to the world of cloud gaming.

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This new update will also introduce an ‘install to play’ option, opening up the GeForce NOW library to more than 4,500 titles.

With this new upgrade, we also got further confirmation of some major titles that will be coming to GeForce NOW this year:

• Borderlands 4
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
• The Outer Worlds 2
• Arc Raiders
• Hell is Us

To get the full details on this new upgrade, check out our detailed and in-depth article right HERE.

GeForce NOW Expands

Further big news on this week’s GFN Thursday is that GeForce NOW will be expanding to a new territory. In November of this year, India will become the latest country to receive official support.

India is one of the world’s largest gaming markets, and it is fantastic to see GeForce NOW expand into the region.

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This Week’s New Games

In total, we have 13 new titles coming to the GeForce NOW library this week. There are 4 new releases in the list.

This week, we also have a whopping 8 titles coming to GeForce NOW from the Total War franchise. This includes Total War: Medieval II and Total War: Shogun 2.

You can see the full list of new titles coming to GeForce NOW this week below:

• Stick It to the Stickman (New release on Steam, Aug. 18)
• Blacksmith Master (New release on Xbox, available on PC Game Pass, Aug. 19) 
• VOID/BREAKER (New release on Steam and Xbox available on PC Game Pass, Aug. 19)
• The Rogue Prince of Persia (New release on Ubisoft, Aug. 20)
• Funko Fusion (Steam)
• Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition (Steam)
• Total War: ATTILA (Steam)
• A Total War Saga: Troy (Steam)
• Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition (Steam)
• Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition (Steam)
• Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES (Steam)
• Total War: ROME REMASTERED (Steam)
• Total War: SHOGUN 2 (Steam)