Ubisoft has sent Pavel Djundik, the man behind SteamDB, a dmca takedown request for his copy of the internal list of Geforce NOW titles. It contains unannounced games that Nvidia calls ‘speculative’, but Ubisoft may think otherwise.
Pavel Djundik announces takedown news on Twitter. Although the list is indeed no longer available, Archive.org does have a backup and several forks have been made on GitHub. He had specifically filtered the list for titles that don’t have a Steam appID; they can therefore already be found on his website, SteamDB.
The list included titles like God of War, Gears 6, Halo 5: Guardians, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Titanfall 3, Batman: Arkham Knight RTX Remaster, and more. The presence of titles on this list from Nvidia suggests that these are unannounced games for the PC, the platform on which Geforce NOW works. An overview has been made on Reddit of titles that have not yet been announced. The striking thing is that there seem to be no unannounced Ubisoft titles among them. Incidentally, there are Nintendo games in between and the Dolphin emulator, which imitates the Wii.
The Geforce NOW list came out on September 13. A developer managed to access an online database of Nvidia via an older version of the Geforce NOW application. It contained all 18,476 titles Nvidia has on the service, not just the ones that users are allowed to see. He couldn’t get the titles to work, but could only see them. The developer from Ukraine detailed the process of getting the list in great detail in a Medium post.
In a response, Nvidia said the list is “for internal tracking and testing only and includes both already available and/or speculative games.” The tech giant believes the list “does not confirm or announce future availability of games.” Ubisoft seems to think otherwise, judging by the takedown.