Nvidia Shield released & reviewed
Nvidia has been a company I've trusted for years. I've been a PC gamer since I was a kid, building computers with Nvidia graphics cards . When I picked up my first Android tablet, it was the Tegra 3 equipped Nexus 7. So when Nvidia announced something radical at CES earlier this year, I was enthralled. That something was the Nvidia Shield , a a kind of games-focused Android device, formed of a 5-inch touchscreen mounted above a controller. The controller held the guts of an Android device inside, powered by Nvidia's new Tegra 4 Android chipset. The design makes for an ideal Android-powered gaming platform, with hundreds of titles in the Play store as well as a select few in the Shield-only game store. Just there, I was already tempted - the ideal Android handheld! What sealed the deal was another source of games: my PC! Using some clever streaming technology, I would be able to bring controller-capable PC games from my desk to my couch, my living room or indeed pr