Since the Nvidia Shield Android TV is almost upon us, and with lots of us being happy that the 500GB model is actually a real thing, we figured that we would list ten games that will be making the jump from PC/Consolel to the Shield Android TV console, many of which should be available at launch. Some of these games are currently available for the Shield tablet and portable already. Most of these games also made a brief appearance during Nvidia’s GDC 2015 press conference as well.
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Welcome to Now GameStreaming, a recommendation of PC games you can play on the NVIDIA Shield and Shield Tablet with NVIDIA GameStream. With the latest Humble Bundle featuring Star Wars games, there is no better time than now.
Interesting news coming out of northern Japan today as an official ‘No Video Games Day’ has been started in order to curb video game playing in the Hokkaido Prefecture. So far this “No Video Games Day’ is only for the Hokkaido Prefecture and isn’t a nation-wide event although it could certainly turn into one.
This week’s addition to the NvidiaGrid is PixelJunk Shooters. The game can be accessed for free from now until the end of June on the Nvidia Shield Portable and Shield Tablet.
Eltechs, the developer behind ExaGear Strategies which is an emulator to play certain PC games such as Civilization 3, has released a new emulator called ExaGear RPG. As you are probably guessing, this new emulator is specifically designed to play classic PC RPGs on your Android device such as Fallout 1 & 2 as well as some of the later titles in the Might & Magic franchise.
Turn-based strategy game Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders now on Steam’s Early Access. Cross-platform gameplay and other goodies on the way.
Back in September of last year we reported on a new turn-based strategy war game called Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders which had just arrived onto Google Play. The developers of this game have been working hard to bring it to PC and now it is available on Steam through there Early Access program. So why are we reporting on it? Because Kerberos Productions has announced that cross-platform gameplay with Android users, among other features, is on the way.
Lords of Discord – Herocraft’s upcoming cross-platform tactics style strategy game coming in 2014
Herocraft has made a lot of games for mobile as well as publishing games by other developers as well. However the company is looking to expand their reach and in doing so they are breaking into an area where a lot of games don’t reach into. This area is the cross-platform gaming experience and while there’s a lot of games that are cross-platform between iOS and Android, there isn’t a whole lot that move past that into the realm of PC/Mac/Linux gaming.
Another week and another blog post from the folks over at nVidia regarding their upcoming Android-powered handheld gaming system Project Shield. Previously we’ve seen Real Boxing running on Project Shield, which was last week, and the week before was Borderlands 2. This week the new game being shown off is Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
Bent Spoon Games to release their first title “Girl with a Heart of” on Android on November 17th
We like indie games as much as we like the big named titles as well and Bent Spoon Games will be offering up a pretty unique game called Girl with a Heart of this November on multiple platforms including Android. When it comes to indie games, you can always expect something unique and this is no exception.
We haven’t had a good WTF type of article in a couple of weeks and so it was refreshing to see that there was something we could write about today for you to contemplate over while drinking your morning coffee. Granted this isn’t Android related but it is still pretty awesome and could easily be done on Android.