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NVIDIA Project SHIELD unleashes Riptide GP 2 in sweetest demo yet

, Mar 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

It’s time again for some rip-roaring action with NVIDIA’s Project SHIELD and the sequel to one of the most awesomely entertaining games on the Android gaming platform: Riptide GP 2! This game takes on what the original blasted forth with awesomely futuristic jet-ski racing made excellent by NVIDIA’s team-up with the developers at Vector Unit for Tegra optimization. In this demo you’ll also be seeing the Project SHIELD implementation of NVIDIA Tegra 4 quad-core processing power with visual splendor popping up on a whopping 72 GPU cores.

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NVIDIA shows off Dead Arrival 2 on Project SHIELD

, Feb 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

NVIDIA has released another Android Thursday video, this one showcasing Dead Arrival 2, a zombie survival game that arms you with a variety of drop-em-dead weapons and lets you loose in a world full of the undead. You can check out a video of the game in action and its pertinent details after the jump. Read The Full Story

Dead Space 3 demo arriving on January 22

, Dec 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you've been dying to get your hands on the latest Dead Space installment, you'll be treated to a little bit of play time with the game earlier than the release date. A demo for Dead Space 3 is set to arrive on January 22 and will be available for downloading on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network. Read The Full Story

First footage of 0x10c surfaces

, Oct 4th 2012 Discuss [2]

Ever since Notch announced that he was handing off the main development duties on Minecraft to Jens Bergensten, Mojang fans have been waiting with bated breath to see what he'll do next. Earlier this year, Notch announced a new passion project called 0x10c, but in the time since that announcement, he's been relatively quiet on the game's progress. We've been given small updates here and there, but nothing all that substantial. Today, however, we're getting a peek at the first footage from the game, and you can check it out after the jump. Read The Full Story

HP launches Open webOS 1.0

, Sep 28th 2012 Discuss [3]

HP's TouchPad and Palm devices may be long and gone, but webOS (the mobile OS that these devices ran off of) has been alive and well despite its hardware extinction, mostly thanks to its open-source status. Open webOS, as its now called, went into beta in August, and now a month later, a final stable build is ready for consumption as version 1.0. Read The Full Story

E-Ink concept double-display smartphone hands-on

, Aug 31st 2012 Discuss [9]

Big-screen smartphones may be the fashion, but how about two sizable screens on your next handset with negligible battery impact. SlashGear caught up with E Ink at IFA today to check out the company’s latest prototypes, intended to spur some imagination among potential hardware partners. The mockups have a working e-paper screen filling the back, and a (non-functioning) LCD up front, offering two ways of displaying content simultaneously. And, while these might be concept devices right now, E Ink confirmed to us that there’s at least one vendor looking at using the idea. Read on for a video demo.

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Qualcomm extends Vuforia augmented reality to the cloud

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Remember Vuforia? Qualcomm’s augmented reality platform allows you to scan real world objects and create “interactive experiences” on your smartphone or tablet. The technology had its limitation though, only scanning photos against a local database of 80 images. Now Qualcomm has announced that by adding the cloud into the mix, so the platform can perform image recognition against over one million images. Read The Full Story

3DS to get new eShop game demos tomorrow

, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [1]

I think one of the best things to ever happen to console gaming on the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 were game demos. I can’t tell you how many video games I have purchased over the years that just sucked. Few things are worse to a gamer than dropping money on a new game and finding out it's not fun. Thankfully, you can grab the demo and never worry about that with many games today. Read The Full Story

Verizon Galaxy Nexus Gaming Demo with Riptide GP and ShadowGun

, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [3]

There are a couple of games out there right now that show off the graphics finesse of whatever platform you play them on quite well, and in quite an easily comparable sense when it comes down to it, those being Riptide GP, a jet-ski racing game, and ShadowGun, a 3rd person shooter – today we’ve got these games being demonstrated on Verizon’s LTE version of the Galaxy Nexus. This device is the first to work natively with Google’s mobile OS by the name of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and runs a Texas Instruments OMAP4 1.2GHz dual-core processor. Is it enough to compete with such gaming titans as the ultra-powerful NIVIDA Tegra 3 quad-core processor toting ASUS Transformer Prime, or perhaps the iPad 2 for good measure?

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Need for Speed the Run demo coming October 18

, Oct 5th 2011 Discuss [3]

I think one of the bestselling video games this holiday season is going to be Need for Speed The Run. This is the latest installment in the NFS franchise that has been around for many years now. The game will be coming in time for Christmas giving and has some awesome cars in it. If you need a bit more convincing that his game is worth your money, the demo is coming. Read The Full Story

HTC Sense 3.5 gets leaked in video demo

, Aug 29th 2011 Discuss [2]

HTC's upcoming Sense UI update to version 3.5 has been leaked in a demo video made available by XDA.cn. The five-minute long video shows the HTC Sense 3.5 running on what appears to be the female-focused HTC Bliss. The interface looks more simplified from the current version with new transitions and lock screens. Read The Full Story

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Gameplay Demo Revealed [Video]

, Aug 25th 2011 Discuss [2]

The massively epic story of Ezio, an Italian assassin whose story will be completed here in the third of three Assassin’s Creed video game, is today revealed in video form. What we get to see today is a game that starts with a chariot race and fight, the finale of which leaves Ezio busted and near death having has his cart thrown down the side of a mountain, his crash and climb up leaving him without the ability to free-run or turn walls to walkways. You’re playing a very similar game to the last Creed game, but you’re certainly not starting your journey as the assassin with a full deck of cards. The graphics and gameplay, on the other hand, are top notch. Enter the Director’s Cut of the Gamescon 2011 gameplay footage of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations.

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