GFN.Ru Gaming Streaming Service

2021: Launch of the server cluster in Novosibirsk

Rostelecom"" On November 10, 2021, he announced that together Region Estate with they are launched Novosibirsk server into a cluster that will bring cloudy gaming on technology to a Nvidia fundamentally different level. More. here

2020

MTS Cloud Gaming Availability

On July 23, 2020, MTS PJSC, a Russian company providing digital, media and telecommunications services, announced the launch of a marketplace in the field of cloud gaming, combining all the platforms presented on the Russian market - GFN.RU (on NVIDIA GeForce NOW technologies), Loudplay, Playkey and DROVA. More details here.

In GFN.RU, ray tracing based on NVIDIA RTX became available

In February, 2020 the game streamingovy service GFN.RU (project of the SAFMAR group of Mikhail Gutseriev, the partner of global alliance NVIDIA GeForce NOW) announced availability of technology of trace ^[1] based on NVIDIA RTX. This technology, which provides photorealistic picture quality in games, will be available to GFN.RU users on any device connected to the service: from smartphones and smart TVs on operating system Android to tablets and personal computers. Thanks to the infrastructure, GFN.RU became the first cloud gaming service in, Russia which was able to ensure the availability of ray tracing for users on any devices.

Results of the first four months of service operation:

• on average, the GFN.RU client plays 3-4 times a week, with the total length of game sessions reaching 3.5 hours a day;
• among the most playing cities in the length of the sessions - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Kiev, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh and Ufa;
• since December 2019, the GFN.RU service has been available on Android smartphones. To control games, you can use both a virtual keyboard and external game controllers;
• the share of users of mobile devices is constantly growing and at the moment is 10%, 80% use the service with the PC, users of technology Apple make up the remaining 10%;
• At the end of January 2020, the top ten most popular games on the service included Rust, Fortnite, Witcher 3, World Of Tanks, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Warface, Destiny 2, PUBG, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth.

2019: Launch of the cloud gaming service

On October 3, 2019, the SAFMAR group "" announced the launch of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION cloudy game GFN.RU service on the basis of the GeForce NOW platform. The investor of the GFN.RU service is the Larnabel Ventures fund, owned by the family. Gutseriev The project partners were the Group "" and M.Video-Eldorado provider digital services. "" Rostelecom The operational management of the project will be carried out by LLC "," in Estate Region which Larnabel Ventures has a majority stake.^[2]

With the help of the GFN.RU service, the SAFMAR group will provide Russian gamers with the opportunity to play the most demanding modern PC games from almost any personal computer based on Windows and macOS.

Thanks to servers NVIDIA the RTX capabilities used in the GFN.RU service, each gamer will be able to experience all the advantages of GeForce graphics. The key requirement for working with the service is a high-speed connection of the device to, To the Internet noted in SAFMAR.

The combination of advanced NVIDIA technologies and the location of servers in the Russian Federation allows you to ensure optimal service performance and minimal delays. Server infrastructure of GFN.RU is placed in date-centremoscow of Two of the IXcellerate company. A unique capacity is reserved for the service for placement in a commercial data center, SAFMAR emphasized.

"According to analysts, as of October 2019, the Russian gaming industry accounts for a little more than 1% of the global market, the volumes of which are estimated at $140 billion. One of the constraints to growth is the mismatch of user computers with the requirements of modern games. Thanks to NVIDIA technologies, the SAFMAR group service will give a multimillion-dollar Russian audience of gamers the opportunity to go beyond the nominal restrictions of their computers, which, of course, will positively affect the development of the gaming industry in Russia, " noted' Said Gutseriev, member of the Board of Directors of SAFMAR Group '

"Russia is a country of PC-gaming and one of the regions where we see a great interest of users in GeForce NOW. Together with the SAFMAR group, we will be able to provide Russian fans of PC games with a comfortable experience playing GeForce on almost any computer, " noted' Phil Eisler, vice president and director of GeForce NOW at NVIDIA '

According to October 2019, GFN.RU works with popular digital distribution services for PC games and supports more than a hundred games popular in Russia and the world, including War Thunder, Warface, World of Tanks, Metro: Exodus, etc. The GFN.RU service is available by subscription worth 999 rubles. per month (including 2 weeks of a free trial period).

You can purchase a subscription to the GFN.RU cloud service:

• on the gfn.ru, the official website of the service;
• in retail stores of M.Video and Eldorado chains and on the mvideo.ru website;
• in the personal account of the subscriber of the home Internet "Online" ("Rostelecom").

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