NVIDIA’s next handheld gaming device could feature the company’s new Tegra K1 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a higher-resolution display. The company started selling the original NVIDIA Shield handheld game console in mid-2013. I features a Tegra 4 processor, a 5 inch touchscreen display, and a built-in game controller that looks a bit like an […]
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Lilbits (4-08-2014): OnePlus One = 3GB (of RAM)
Chinese smartphone startup OnePlus doesn’t plan to officially show us what their first phone looks like until April 23rd. But that’s about the only thing we don’t know at this point. The company had already made it clear that the OnePlus One would have a 5.5 inch full HD display, a 13MP camera, Cyanogen software, a […]
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NVIDIA Shield gets KitKat, GameStream, and Portal
NVIDIA is rolling out some major changes for its Shield handheld game console. While the company’s not ready to update the hardware yet, NVIDA is cutting the price to $200 through the end of April, launching a major software update, and announcing one of the most popular PC games is coming to the Android-based game […]
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Limelight: Use NVIDIA GameStream without an NVIDIA Shield
NVIDIA GameStream technology lets you stream PC games from a gaming computer to an NVIDIA Shield handheld game console over a home network. This lets you play PC games around the house without tethering yourself to a chair in from of your gaming PC. It also allows you to play games that wouldn’t otherwise be […]
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Deals of the Day (12-05-2013)
NVIDIA’s Shield handheld gaming console is sort of what you’d get if you took a smartphone screen and slapped it on top of an Xbox controller. But it’s also one of the most powerful handheld gaming systems around thanks to an NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor and support for NVIDIA’s GRID streaming system which lets you […]
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NVIDIA Shield cloud gaming beta: Streams PC games over the internet
One of the things that sets the NVIDIA Shield handheld game console apart from other portable Android devices (aside from the built-in game controller) is the ability to stream PC games over a network. Up until now you’ve been able to do that by loading PC games on a computer with an NVIDIA graphics cards […]
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NVIDIA Shield now streams PC games to TV at 1080p
NVIDIA’s Shield handheld game console may have hit the streets in July, but NVIDIA keeps improving the device with software updates. In October the company rolled out button-mapping software to let you use the game controller buttons with Android games that normally require touchscreen input and improved features for letting you stream content from your […]
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NVIDIA Shield upated with “Console Mode,” button-mapping for touchscreen games
NVIDA’s Shield is a $300 handheld game console that looks like an Xbox controller with a 5 inch display tacked on. It can run pretty much any game designed for Android — but since most games are designed for touchscreens, a lot of those titles can be kind of tricky to play with a physical […]
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Lilbits (10-18-2013): Ubuntu on phones, PC games on your TV
Ubuntu 13.10 hit the streets this week, and it’s the first release to officially support phones and tablets as well as traditional PCs. The Ubuntu Touch software is still pretty rough around the edges — there aren’t many apps, it’s not the most stable mobile OS, you can’t run desktop apps on an external display […]
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Mad Catz $250 game console will also stream PC games to your TV
The Mad Catz M.O.J.O. is an Android-powered device that you can plug into a TV to play Android games on a big screen. But it turns out you won’t be limited to Android games — Mad Catz plans to offer a software update after launch which will let you stream games from a PC to […]
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Lilbits (9-05-2013): Lenovo’s done with Windows RT
Lenovo is the latest company that seems to be washing its hands of Windows RT. When Microsoft announced it was working on a version of its desktop operating system that would run on low-power ARM-based processors, it was pretty big news. ARM chips were dominating the smartphone and tablet space at the time (and still […]
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NVIDIA Shield portable game console is hackable: NVIDIA releases source code
NVIDIA’s Shield is a handheld gaming system that runs the open source Android 4.2 operating system. But there’s open source, and then there’s open source. Most Android phone and tablet makers only release as much source code as they have to by law (usually based on any changes they make to the kernel, for instance), […]