Perth, Western Australia – October 19, 2021 – Pentanet, NVIDIA’s first GeForce NOW Alliance Partner in Australia, is proud to announce GeForce NOW™ Powered by Pentanet is now available in the region.
Pentanet’s Beta Play program commenced on 22 September 2021, with over 4.7 million minutes (~9 years) played ahead of commercial launch. Almost 20,000 Beta Players actively tested the service across more than 174,000 gaming sessions.
From today, players will be able to experience the amazing visuals of real-time ray tracing streamed with RTX ON via GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet, using a vast variety of hardware options.
Users will have access to a library of over 1,000 games, and can play them by connecting accounts from popular game stores, including Steam, Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect, GOG.COM and more. Players will also have access to almost 100 free-to-play titles included with GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet.
At launch, players have two membership options: ‘Basic’ and ‘Priority’. With GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet’s limited-time Founders ‘Priority’ membership, players will be able to truly unleash the power of the service, with RTX-ON enabled gaming and extended play sessions. If there’s a queue to play GeForce NOW, Priority members will always be right at the front.
Basic memberships will be available for a limited time, allowing players to check out a limited version of the service for free to experience some of the power of cloud gaming. Basic sessions are limited to an hour and do not support RTX features.
To celebrate the launch of GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet, players have the opportunity to select the limited Founders Priority pricing. Users can now claim a Priority membership for AU$19.99 per month on a month-to-month subscription or a discounted rate of AU$17.99 per month for a 12-month subscription.
These are lifetime prices for users as long as they remain an active subscriber. Available for a limited time, conditions apply. Visit Cloud.GG now to claim this limited Founders Priority offer.
Pentanet Founder Stephen Cornish celebrated the occasion, commenting, “For the first time ever, GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet connects gamers with real-time game-streaming technology, allowing users to turn their supported device into the gaming rig they have always dreamt of. It’s a very, very exciting day for us at Pentanet and for gamers in the region.”
Players are encouraged to visit the https://cloud.gg portal to learn more about the future of gaming in Australia.
What is GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet?
GeForce NOW is NVIDIA’s cloud-based game streaming service, delivering real-time gameplay straight from the cloud to your laptop, desktop, Mac, SHIELD TV, Android device or iPhone and iPad.
With GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet, Australian gamers can instantly transform underpowered or incompatible hardware into the PC gaming rig you’ve always dreamed of. Experience instant loading, real-time ray-traced graphics and smooth FPS, even when playing the most demanding games.
Connect to your store accounts and stream your own library of games, or play your favourite free-to-play games. With cloud saves for supported games, you can pick up your game where you left off, on any supported device, wherever you are.
How To Begin:
The https://cloud.gg portal is currently live for players to access.
An FAQ about Pentanet and the GeForce NOW service in Australia is available here: https://cloud.gg/faq/
This is the current list of GeForce NOW games, subject to Australian classification: https://cloud.gg/games
ABOUT PENTANET (ASX:5GG) Pentanet is a Perth-based, growth-focused telco delivering high-speed internet to a growing number of subscribers by providing them with next-generation internet speeds. This is achieved through Pentanet’s market-leading private fixed-wireless network, the largest in Perth, as well as reselling fixed-line services, such as NBN, where its wireless is not yet available. Pentanet’s flagship fixed wireless network has benefits for both customers and investors, offering an outstanding customer experience and a fixed-wireless product that is technically superior to most of the NBN – with attractive margins for investors. This sets Pentanet apart from most broadband providers, which only resell the NBN. Pentanet will also be part of the rollout of the next wave of subscription-based entertainment services – cloud gaming.
The Company’s Alliance Agreement with NVIDIA – a world-leader in accelerated computing for gaming, data centers, self-driving vehicles, and more – allows Pentanet to be the first to bring their GeForce NOW technology to Australia in 2021. Pentanet was listed as #28 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM Asia Pacific 2020, a ranking of the region’s 500 fastest growing technology companies. On top of the Company’s #28 overall ranking, Pentanet also ranked #3 for Australian companies on the list.
