Dragon Age: The Veilguard is “free” with this NVIDIA GeForce NOW deal, and it’s launching on the cloud gaming service
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What might end up being one of 2024’s best new roleplaying games (RPGs) is officially heading to one of the industry’s best game streaming services, and you can even get it for “free” if you take advantage of a special promotional offer.
Thursday, the technology firm NVIDIAannouncedthat from now until October 30, copies of the upcoming, highly anticipated action RPGDragon Age: The Veilguardwill be included with six-month purchases ofGeForce NOWUltimate — the most expensive tier of the company’s cloud gaming service. First launched four years ago, it’s grown to become one of the most popular options for streaming games you own on PC platforms, including Steam, the Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect, the Microsoft Store, the EA app, and GOG. You can sign up for ithere(note that both new and existing members can take advantage of this deal).
On top of giving you Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the Ultimate $99.99/six months of game time offer lets you stream your games from RTX 4080-powered rigs and servers, complete with the ability to useNVIDIA DLSS 3for performance-boosting upscaling and frame generation and NVIDIA Reflex for low-latency gaming. You can also play at up to 4K resolution and 120 FPS, with no ads to deal with and a very lengthy session length cap of eight hours.
Considering that Dragon Age: The Veilguard itself costs $59.99 to buy standalone, this is a great way for anyone who enjoys gaming on the cloud to pick up the latest entry in BioWare’s beloved fantasy franchise. Note that thegame’s release dateis scheduled for October 31, so it’ll be available to play immediately after NVIDIA’s offer is taken off the table in a few weeks.
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Notably, The Veilguard is the first newDragon Agegame in a decade, and a direct follow-up to the award winning 2014 title Inquisition. First announced in 2022 as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, it was renamed The Veilguard earlier this year and is coming to Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Windows PC through Steam, the EA app, and now GeForce NOW. NVIDIA’s service will also allow you to play it on Mac, TVs, iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.
Little is known about the game’s overall story, though the gist of the plot is that you and seven companions — dubbed “the Veilguard” — are tasked with stopping a pair of malevolent eleven gods from destroying the world over the course of an action-packed adventure. In typical action RPG fashion, players use a combination of melee attacks, magic spells, and defensive actions like dodging or parrying to overcome their foes, with three different classes and a variety of specialization subclasses giving them lots of playstyle options.
All in all, it definitely has the potential to be one of this year’sbest Xbox gamesandbest PC games, and I’m looking forward to checking it out as someone who’s never actually played Dragon Age, but has always been curious. I probably won’t take advantage of this offer to get it since I have a very capable gaming PC and have no need for cloud gaming, but if you do, it’s worth considering.
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You won’t be able to play Dragon Age: The Veilguard on the competingXbox Cloud Gamingservice at launch since the game won’t be available throughXbox Game Pass. However, if The Veilguard eventually makes its way to the standard tier of EA Play (it’s very likely that it will), it will become Xbox Cloud Gaming-compatible since Xbox Game Pass Ultimate gives you access to EA Play. This may also happen if it’s included as part ofthe upcoming Xbox Cloud Gaming “Bring Your Own Games” rolloutat some point, though as my colleague Jez Corden wrote in that linked article, there will likely be certain limitations.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
After a ritual goes wrong, terrible elven deities are unleashed on the land and seek to wreak havoc. Playing as Rook, it’s up to you and your band of companions to explore the world and set things right. You’ll be able to make different decisions that impact the story along the way.
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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).
