NVIDIA Reveals 'Project Shield' Android And PC Gaming Handheld

 

Yesterday NVIDIA revealed Project Shield, a handheld Android gaming device powered by the newly revealed Tegra 4 processor. Shield, which on the outside is basically a console controller with a flip screen, will play all of the games available through Google Play and stream games from a PC powered by GeForce GTX GPUs, giving users access to Steam anywhere in the home.

"Project SHIELD was created by NVIDIA engineers who love to game and imagined a new way to play," said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer at NVIDIA. "We were inspired by a vision that the rise of mobile and cloud technologies will free us from our boxes, letting us game anywhere, on any screen. We imagined a device that would do for games what the iPod and Kindle have done for music and books, letting us play in a cool new way. We hope other gamers love SHIELD as much as we do."

 

NVIDIA says the built-in battery will provide 5 to 10 hours of gaming or 24 hours of HD video viewing. Along with the 5-inch, 1280 x 720 “retinal” touchscreen display, the Shield is equipped with a micro SD card slot, HDMI out, micro USB port and 3.5mm audio jack. There's also “console-grade” analog joysticks, four action buttons and set of triggers and bumpers.

 

If you want to see the full reveal, including a demo of the new Project Shield handheld, watch NVIDIA's press conference over on their Twitch.tv page (you may want to skip ahead to the 56:30 mark).

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Comic-Con: 'ParaNorman' Panel Reveals 'Ghostbusters' Inspiration

FROM MTV GEEK: The minds and voices behind the stop-motion 3D zombie comedy "ParaNorman" took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con to talk about the August release.

Travis Knight, Producer and CEO of animation studio Laika was joined by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (also the film's writer), directors of ParaNorman, along with actors Kodi Smit-McPhee (Norman), Anna Kendrick (Courtney), Christopher Mintz Plasse (Alvin) to talk about the movie.

Butler says that he's been working on the script for the movie or developing it in some way or another over the last 16 years, with actual production starting three years ago. Inspired by Goonies, Ghostbusters, Butler says the central concept was "John Carpenter meets John Hughes" as a zombie movie for kids.

The story, told in stop-motion (my absolute favorite animation medium, by the way), follows Norman Babcock, a young outcast who can see and hear ghosts. When he learns that an evil witch is going to raise the dead in his small town, he'll have to band together with his friend (singular) and enemies to save everyone. The first scene that we saw came from the second act and involved Norman attempting to read from a book that would prevent the rise of the dead. Interrupted by Alvin (who he bumped into earlier on his bike), Norman and his bully are stuck in the graveyard as the zombies start popping out the ground.

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