How Stephen Cornish went from fixing his own internet to bringing NVIDIA GeForce NOW to Australia

Rather than spending thousands of dollars on a new gaming PC, there’s another option Aussies are turning to.

NVIDIA GeForce NOW is a cloud gaming service that lets you play PC games without needing a powerful gaming computer of your own.

Avid gamer, tech entrepreneur and cloud gaming advocate Stephen Cornish founded Perth-based Pentanet in 2017 with the goal of improving internet infrastructure.

After experiencing frustrating gaming lag himself, he wanted to find a better solution for gamers.

“Cloud gaming should not be judged against an expectation that it would replace traditional gaming hardware,” Stephen says. “Its role today is much broader and, in many ways, much more complementary to the existing gaming ecosystem.”

In 2021, Stephen led Pentanet’s partnership with NVIDIA to launch NVIDIA GeForce NOW Powered by CloudGG in Australia, establishing the company as NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW Alliance Partner for the region.

“I think it speaks to the depth of expertise, ambition and professionalism within our team, and the confidence NVIDIA had in our ability to deliver,” Stephen says.

Since then, he has overseen the growth and evolution of GeForce NOW Powered by CloudGG , helping bring high-performance PC gaming to Australians across a growing range of devices.

“When much of the early hype around cloud gaming emerged, the experience was far more limited,” Stephen says.

“Today, NVIDIA and its GeForce NOW Alliance Partners are leading that evolution, with GeForce NOW capable of delivering significantly higher resolutions, frame rates and overall quality than was possible in the early days of cloud gaming.”

October 2026 marks the fifth anniversary of NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW transforming the way Australians can access high-performance gaming, without needing to replace the hardware they already own.

“Cloud gaming does not need to replace consoles or gaming PCs to be valuable,” he says.

“For some players it complements an existing setup, giving them more convenient ways to play across different devices or while away from their primary gaming hardware. For others, it may be their first realistic opportunity to access high-end gaming.”

Instead of your own device doing all the work to run a game, GeForce NOW can do it for you. The game is then streamed to your device, similar to streaming a movie or TV show.