A New Dawn in the Cloud: ‘Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV’ Is Coming to GeForce NOW

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is coming to GeForce NOW, letting subscribers play the RTS at its Steam launch rather than waiting for a local install. The game from developer KING Art Games and publisher Deep Silver ships Thursday, Dec. 3, and returns the series to its roots with large-scale battles, base building and another fight over planet Kronus.

Players can command the Space Marines, Orks, Necrons or the Adeptus Mechanicus — the latter making its series debut — building bases, securing resources and customizing squads across more than 70 campaign missions, playable solo or in co-op. Beyond the campaign, The Last Stand, Skirmish and multiplayer modes round out the tactics options. GeForce NOW will run the title on supported PCs, Macs, handhelds and other devices, with downloads and patches handled server-side so local storage stays free.

DLSS 5 is also spreading across NVIDIA's game lineup. Gaijin Entertainment's War Thunder picks up the technology with its Eagle's Shadow major update arriving in mid-November, which also adds dozens of planes, ships and tanks, cluster bombs for planes and visual-effects upgrades. Everstone Studio's Where Winds Meet gets DLSS on Monday, Nov. 23, tuning environments and characters in its wuxia open-world action RPG. Both will run the latest DLSS 5 model with the 3D-Guided Neural Rendering feature, released in October, which NVIDIA says doubles model performance versus the prior version. Since the technology was first announced in March, model performance has improved tenfold — a gain that reaches GeForce NOW Ultimate members streaming on GeForce RTX 5080 cloud rigs.

Rounding out the week, Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen is streaming on GeForce NOW, opening the abandoned Norgan region, an encounter with the enigmatic Eir and the story of the undying Fallen Dragon. The expansion adds relics that unlock weapons and skills, 12 dungeon challenges under Lost Rites, and new hairstyles and tattoos for Arisen and Pawn customization, plus a Delicious in Dungeon collaboration. Ten games join the GeForce NOW library this week in total.

What to watch: whether the 3D-Guided Neural Rendering rollout keeps its pace beyond these two titles, and how much of DLSS 5's tenfold gains show up in cloud-streamed play where latency, not just frame generation, sets the experience. It's also unclear how the RTX 5080 rig tier and Ultimate pricing hold up as more demanding games like Dawn of War IV arrive, and whether the cloud-handled install model becomes the default path for day-and-date launches.