Gamescom 2025 kickoff - GeForce On Community Update and Win a RTX 5080!
Hey everyone! It's time for Gamescom 2025. I am covering it on site myself, and for the kick-off, NVIDIA has just launched the Geforce On Community Update, with announcements, news and game announcements.
Quick note: There's no new hardware being announced.
THE NVIDIA GAMESCOM ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Here is a summary:
There are now over 175 released games and apps with support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, enabling GeForce RTX 50 Series gamers to use this technology for them.
DLSS 4 is coming to another 10+ anticipated games, including Resident Evil Requiem, PRAGMATA, and Borderlands 4. And many are adding ray-traced effects as well.
Borderlands 4 is now bundled with select GeForce RTX 50 GPUs.
NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture is coming to GeForce NOW Adding RTX 5080-class GPUs to the cloud, and they claim it can enable 5120×2880, 120 FPS streaming, and low latency, and the newest AI tech applied to graphics.
A new NVIDIA app beta update launches August 19th, introducing global DLSS overrides, support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, and more.
Project G-Assist’s capabilities are expanding, and will be available for all GeForce RTX GPUs with 6GB or more of VRAM, including laptops.
NVIDIA ACE is coming to Iconic Interactive’s The Oversight Bureau, utilizing the NVIDIA Riva Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model.
Verified Priority Access is coming to Europe, that's the project for gamers to be able to get RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPUs directly from NVIDIA; invites are continuing to go out in the United States too, of course.
There’s a free Marvel Rivals GeForce Reward available now for NVIDIA app users, giving Doctor Strange a new costume.
The winners of the $50,000 NVIDIA RTX Remix Mod Contest have been announced - make sure to check out the winners and download their mods.
If like me you're going to Gamescom, there are GeForce RTX GPUs, and other prizes up for grabs! Gamescom attendees can win on the show floor, and folks at home can win by checking out this thread and also the NVIDIA socials, too (you'll notice the 5090 Jensen shows in the beginning of the Geforce On video, but there's a lot more).
THE GIVEAWAY
As a bonus, we have a GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition to give away to one lucky member of the PCMR community. All you need to do to enter is answer the following question.
What was your favorite GeForce at Gamescom 2025 reveal?
Comment with your reply in our Reddit Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1mtxh0c/gamescom_2025_kickoff_geforce_on_community_update/
Good luck, and may your framerates be high and your temperatures low this Summer. If you're at Gamescom, enjoy and say hi!
You can enter until August 22nd, 2025, PST!
The giveaway is open to residents of: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Excluding Puerto Rico and its other territories and possessions), AUSTRALIA (except New South Wales, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory), AUSTRIA, CANADA (except Quebec), CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, IRELAND, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY, PERU, SOUTH KOREA, SPAIN, SWITZERLAND, TAIWAN, UNITED KINGDOM.
