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NVIDIA this month is unifying its GeForce NOW service across all platforms that it supports, extending the latest iteration of the service for PCs and Macs to include NVIDIA's SHIELD TV consoles. From now on, all 225 games supported by the game streaming service will also run on the Android TV STB. NVIDIA has been dabbling in cloud-based game streaming services for several year snow, starting with the GRID service early in this decade, which was created to extend the gaming capabilities of NVIDIA's first portable SHIELD devices. In October of 2015 this morphed into the first-generation GeForce NOW service, which was an interesting $8/month hybrid-subscription service that allowed users to both play games included with their subscription, along with buying certain (usually newer) games...
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191 by Ganesh T S on 12/26/2017
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20 by Anton Shilov on 12/22/2017
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16 by Ryan Smith on 1/28/2017
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19 by Anton Shilov on 1/10/2017
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39 by Anton Shilov on 5/18/2016
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44 by Ganesh T S on 9/30/2015
NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV OTA Update Improves HTPC Credentials
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22 by Ganesh T S on 9/30/2015
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