
A native option could prove to be much more useful for folks who don’t have such flexibility or the required hardware. We imagine you could just as easily stream these games in higher quality using NVIDIA’s GameStream feature, though that requires a capable PC and an always-on data connection. It won’t look nearly as good as it would on a high-end gaming PC obviously, but for an Android-based handheld they’ve achieved something pretty remarkable. What they didn’t tell us is that Half-Life 2 would be jumping on for the ride on the same date and for the same price.īoth games - staples of Valve from earlier this century and in recent years - feature the same full-fledged experience you’d find if you played it on PC. It’s in the Google Play Store for $10, as promised. NVIDIA told us Portal would be arriving for their SHIELD gaming handheld today.
