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Tegra 4-powered Project SHIELD Visits the ‘Badass Crater of Badassitude’

By Will Park on Feb 4 2013
In Gaming, Mobile
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Maybe you’re just tired after a marathon Borderlands 2 session. Maybe you need to answer nature’s call. Whatever the reason, never again will you have to worry about losing precious gaming time just because you have to go “Away From Keyboard.”

Project SHIELD will soon redefine what it means to be AFK with its ability to stream your high-end PC games straight to our Android-powered mobile gaming device. Now you can continue playing your game from the comfort of your couch or, well, anywhere else you might find yourself sitting in your house.

What you see below is a demo of Project SHIELD running the ‘Badass Crater of Badassitude’ level of Borderlands 2 from a GeForce-enabled PC. This particular rig happens to be a Falcon Tiki PC running a GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, allowing us to run the game with the graphics settings cranked all the way up.

Booting up your Tegra 4-powered Project SHIELD is as simple as turning on a smartphone or tablet. Streaming a PC game is just as easy: fire up the SHIELD Android app and tap a few buttons. Within a matter of seconds you’ll be back in the action with all the graphical bells and whistles you’re used to on your PC.

Check out our first “Project SHIELD PC Mondays” video below to see how we’re redefining AFK.

Note: due to an editing error, an earlier version of this post referred to Borderlands 2 as Badlands 2.

More on the Tegra 4 mobile processor.

Tagged: AFK, android, away from keyboard, Borderlands, Gaming, GeForce, gtx 680, Mobile, PC monday, Project SHIELD, shield, Tegra

76 Comments Post a Comment

http://www.facebook.com/zheystek Zackary Heystek

New video today?
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

There sure was a new video yesterday. Check our YouTube channel (youtube.com/nvidia) and subscribe to the Project SHIELD playlist to get notified of all our new videos.
http://twitter.com/Bp_STI Ben Pottinger

Will we have the ability to use a mouse and keyboard? Even more importantly is there any plans to enable this in software so we can stream games from our desktop PC to our laptops over wifi? Shield is a neat concept but i’d guess most PC gamers would rather have access to a keyboard and mouse then be downgraded to a controller. I’d happily cough up for a new 600 series video card if it enabled streaming to my laptop.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1046783461 Yo Ann

and i am broke
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5OT7V6QFBWBYH35WBE6VGTLBBY nuffinn

Being able to play full PC games ..on a handheld…is useless? Its not like a watered down version of the full game….its the actual full game.

Think about PS Vita games, 3DS games….now think about their console counterparts. With this….no need to buy a separate game for the handheld… Right now I have 2 separate games for my PS3 and Vita…Little Big Planet and Uncharted.

The biggest thing is playing games out the house. Can it be done, with a good experience?
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

Project SHIELD will be compatible with all Android games that support game controller inputs. Hope that helps answer your question!
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

For PC to SHIELD game streaming, currently you will need to be within the same Wi-Fi network as your PC.
rritambhar

how about the game keeps running on pc anonymously so that someone can still work on the pc while someone enjoys the game remotely ??? 2x the work !!!
http://www.facebook.com/ernest.pierce.56 Ernest Pierce

I second that
jonathon puckett

well you don’t need to play games
you don’t need the internet
this is just something people will want and with that….

android games are not boring you are just not looking hard enough there are actually a lot of great games just in your opinion they might be bland
http://profile.yahoo.com/K2XSZMZDWEIC5RJFX2FIZHXUSM Shaki Skae

Will it be able to stream MMOs like world of warcraft?
Jonathan Dubose

The better question is, can I do it from my Xperia Play??? Streaming video shouldn’t be too hard, and I already have the gamepad
Mark Owen

Will, when you say Wifi only within the home, then I assume the bottleneck outside the home is the connection bandwidth. What kind of broadband speed would be needed to make this work out of the house? I can’t imagine that it has to make use all of max wifi transfer speed as it would then be impeded by someone say browsing internet on another device.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1408221036 Ryan King

i honestly think this is cool because (and im 14) if your parents tell you to get off, just turn off the monitor or put your computer to sleep( however SHEILD is compatible) then just play with headphones on in your room. i think its a cool idea!!
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

That’s a good use case, Ryan. Just keep in mind that your PC must be powered on to stream games to Project SHIELD.
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

We work with developers closely to help drive innovation in the mobile gaming space. Always good to see our fans appreciating what we’re doing for Android games
http://profile.yahoo.com/M3WLRRE2YVR2NNRQTWFQKPHDVM paul

Is that for security purposes or actual hardware/software limitations?
http://twitter.com/GibranLv Gibran Lv

and I thrid that
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Wood/726716162 Chris Wood

Really, I think the best thing Nvidia can do here is make it quite open. Don’t lock it down. If you look at what is possible with something like the Raspberry Pi, people are finding uses for it that are far, far beyond the realms of imagination that the creators ever thought of. If you look at Skyrim and Oblivion and Morrowind, the mods created for the game are just oozing with huge creative potential that isn’t in the console versions of the game because Bethesda are only so many people. If Nvidia allows people to have a proper play about with the device I’m sure we can see it perform some truly extraordinary actions. If it’s locked down like an Iphone then it’s potential is seriously hampered.
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

The game has to be compatible with a game controller.
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

You won’t be able to stream your PC games to your Xperia Play using our technology.
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

We’re not ready to talk about the specific broadband speeds required outside the home. For now we’re only talking about using your home WiFi connection. Hope this helps!
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ Will Park

You’re totally right, Chris. Project SHIELD is an open platform. We work with developers all the time and want to continue that tradition with Project SHIELD.
Dyson Gamma

Suck to have an AMD GPU.
NVIDIA FOREVER.
I’ve loved your cards forever. In fact my first Nvidia card was a Geforce2 Ultra.
Keep up the good work.
Rakibul Hasan

Is there any front camera in Shield?
http://www.facebook.com/rory.wilkins.7 Rory Wilkins

Hey Will, I subscribe to your youtube videos. I have a question. Is there plans to allow gaming beyond my home network?