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Nvidia hopes to expand the niche audience for its Shield Portable gaming handheld with a worldwide release of the new Shield Tablet. MCV catches up with Chris Daniel, senior product manager at Nvidia The launch of Nvidia’s Shield Portable last year in the US set many tongues lolling at the …
Read More »Nvidia Shield Tablet announced; UK release detailed
Nvidia has announced a new tablet-shaped sibling for its Shield Portable gaming handheld. The Shield Portable was released last July exclusively in the US and Canada – a move Nvidia product manager Chris Daniel told MCV was alike to a ‘trial run’ for the product. The handheld, which combines a …
Read More »Nvidia’s Shield successor is a tablet
The next device in the Nvidia Shield range will be a tablet and not a dedicated portable, reports suggest. The Vergespotted a listing for the Nvidia Shield Tablet on the Global Certification Forum (GCF) website. Earlier today EA COO Peter Moore said that the portable games sector was moving away …
Read More »Tesco confirms Hudl smartphone plans
Tesco has revealed that it will launch an Android smartphone by the end of the year. Philip Clarke, Tesco’s chief executive, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the handset will be called the Hudl smartphone and will come with pre-installed Tesco services and feature hardware comparable to the Galaxy S5. …
Read More »Team17 expands publishing initiative to mobile
Rocket Rainbow’s puzzle game Hay Ewe is the first third-party mobile title to be published
Read More »Developers prefer PS4 over Xbox One and Wii U, GDC survey claims
But PC, mobile and tablet platforms are the most popular systems amongst game makers
Read More »Smartphone shipments grew 43% in 2013
Data from Futuresource Consulting Research has revealed tremendous growth in the smartphone market throughout 2013. The firm says that global smartphone shipments grew 43 per cent last year, hitting 1.02bn units. Tablet shipments, meanwhile, grew 57 per cent to 243m units, with 90m units being shipped in the quarter ending …
Read More »Smartphone games drive Gameloft sales to €233m
Games on smart devices account for more than 75 per cent of the company's revenue
Read More »Introducing the low-cost £30 Android tablet
You can now buy two Android tablets for the price of a single PS4 controller. Note, however, that while Sony’s latest joypad is an absolute joy to use, the new 30 UbiSlate 7Ci from DataWind is likely to be somewhat less rewarding. With just 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, …
Read More »Nintendo experimenting with Android tablet, engineer claims
A Nintendo software engineer has claimed that the company is working on an Android-based tablet. Nando Monterazo tweeted that he was "experimenting with a tablet of Nintendo, the system is based on Android, fully modified and unified as a database of the tablet." The tweet was one of several mentioning …
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