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Nvidia shows hands-on demo of Shield set-top box (video)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Graphics chip powerhouse Nvidia showed off its Shield gamer set-top box today at the Game Developers Conference. The small box can play Android titles and run entertainment provided through Google’s Android TV. It can also run high-quality, 1080p 60-frame-per-second games from the cloud-based Nvidia Grid game-streaming service.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.