Support us on PatreonToday, streaming media app Plex announced it has added Live TV to its platform, including local news and sports, at no cost to Plex Pass users. No more waiting for the recording to finish! This is Plex’s biggest news to date as it moves the company one step closer to its vision of the future […]
Author: Anthony Garera
Anthony is usually tinkering with everything and anything because there's always one more thing to do, reviewing games and apps and complaining about things normal people don't think about.
At Google I/O today the Google Home was the star of the keynote, with Google’s pivot in the recent years to AI an all voice assistant was inevitable. Amazon beat them to market but Google came fighting back with Home. Amazon recently announced Echo was getting calling which makes complete sense because if you can […]
At Google I/O Google has announced that YouTube’s 360-degree videos are coming soon to TVs, expanding beyond smartphones and web browsers for the first time. “It’s not just about the size of the screen,” YouTube product manager Sarah Ali said before demoing a 360-degree video from Coachella. “It’s about giving you an experience that [traditional] TV […]
[Update] We are working on adding support for all podcast platforms On This Podcast Kevin & I discuss Google I/O and what to expect as well as news in the Android TV realm from the last week and everything in between. The Show notes are listed below. Show Notes: Aeotec by Aeon Labs DSA03202W Black […]
Last night while most people were sleeping the US cable network NBC released their app for Android TV. It’s pretty similar in looks to NBC’s other Android app, but made for Android TV. The UI has been adapted for the 10 foot experience with less Leanback styling, but all the same content you’d expect. NBC […]
One of the great thing about Android that I embrace to give some pop to my home screen is icon packs. Anyone exposed to this great freedom knows how much fun it can be to truly make your home screen yours and not have to abide by the rules that others enforce on you. Since […]
Move over Ratchet and Clank. Move over Banjo and Kazooie. Move over Mario and Luigi! There’s a new platform/adventure game in town: Yooka-Laylee has come to GeForce NOW today Tuesday, April 25. This heavily-backed Kickstarter will see you run, jump, puzzle and fight your way through massive, colorful worlds filled with special items to discover, and […]
Remember growing up as a kid and playing the floor is lava either by yourself or with siblings or friends? It brings back great memories for me and so does this game. Imagine a game that combines the rules of the childhood game “The Floor is Lava” with the highway chase scene from Matrix: Reloaded, and […]
Myst, a game from legendary developer Cyan Worlds originally launched in 1993 for something called a Macintosh, since then the Mac hasn’t been such a gaming powerhouse, but none the less it hasn’t stopped indie devs porting their Steam games for all 3 platforms. Now the classic game is brought to the modern-day and called it […]
Google Home can now be trained to identify the different voices of people you live with. Today Google announced that its smart speaker can support up to six different accounts on the same device. With this you’ll finally have the Home tailored to your voice and be able to sleep at night knowing no one […]
It was many moons ago we had to get up from watching TV and walk over to the switch to turn off the light. Someone didn’t like this so that’s how we got Hue bulbs and someone else didn’t like getting up so they extended it to TV because reaching for your phone would be […]
Vector Unit is a Developer best known for the Riptide series of games. This time around there’s no jet skis here just a mouse-bot, his cheese and some lab cats. It’s called MouseBot and it’s a free to play game with IAPs that you don’t really need, only if you want them you can buy […]
So if you haven’t heard by now the Android Developers blog let everyone know after some feedback and low usage numbers on the iOS side that they’ll be dropping iOS support and some features existing in Play Games today. They found that there is lower usage for Gifts, Requests, and Quests. So now the next 12 […]
Starting Thursday, April 13 and running through April 16, the SHIELD Spring Game Sale gives you an opportunity to play the critically-acclaimed kingdom-building simulation game, Kingdom: New Lands and finally one of the games I’ve wanted to play for a while has gone on sale Ultimate Chicken Horse, trust me if you haven’t played you’re missing out […]
The arrival of SHOWTIME ® on Sling TV marks the first time an over-the-top (OTT) service has offered content from the four leading premium networks. SHOWTIME features eight different channels and is available today for $10 per month to new and existing Sling TV customers. “We know our price and the ability to personalize your […]
Not to be confused with the popular and well-known Penny Arcade Expo aka PAX but Google has today announced PAX, which stands for “Android Networked Cross-License Agreement”, so yeah that makes perfect sense somehow. Basically, this new licensing program will allow members — which include some of Google’s many Android partners — to stop threatening […]
Love Humor with a bit of destruction? Me too and that’s why I’m excited Worms WMD has made its way to GeForce Now. The long running strategy series from Team 17 has arrived on NVIDIA’s GeForce Now platform for all SHIELD users to enjoy! Worms WMD pits teams of worms brimming with ‘tude against each other […]
Looking for some Couch Co-op? Love to Cook? Yell at the top of your lungs to deliver the food? Love Indie Games? Then Overcooked is for you! Wanna just watch the trailer just see below but if you wanna read continue on. This casual arcade/action game comes to you from publisher Team17, the folks […]
Exoplayer version 2.2 is upon us, exactly what does this mean to the average user? Better video playback and more features in any video oriented applications in a nutshell. People who want to know the underlyings of ExoPlayer please read on. ExoPlayer 2.2 adds a number of new features, as well as another batch of […]
Sony was first to bring OLED to the market in 2007 with the XEL-1, an 11-inch TV display that was an outstanding achievement for its time. Sony has continued manufacturing award-winning OLED displays for professional broadcast and video production. Sony’s professional OLED displays are used for editing, dallies review, graphics generation, special effects, as well […]
Tuesday? Check ✓ New GeForce Now game? Check ✓ Born out of Kickstarter, Tides of Numenera is the spiritual successor to 1999’s Planescape Torment, which is widely regarded by critics and fans as one of the finest RPGs of all time. In addition, Tides of Numenera was developed by Brian Fargo’s InXile Entertainment, which has enjoyed crowd-funded success with Wasteland 2 and The […]
In a report from the FCC Google is cooking up something but details are vague so far. All we know is its a Set Top Box and has what you expect in one AC WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1 etc as seen in the quote from the report. The Google Inc. model GFHD254 is a residential set-top […]
Originally started as an app long ago back in 2013 Sony’s TV SideView was a very interesting application. Sadly come May 24th it’s going to be departing. The following statement is from Sony’s product site. Thank you very much for your loyal support in using Video & TV SideView. TV Programs and Video on Demand […]
GeForce members you’re about to get another free game included with that membership of yours. This time it’s in the shape of a free to play RPG called Marvel Heroes. For those of you wondering what that is, read the following below. A free-to-play action role-playing game, Marvel Heroes is all about letting you be […]
Tomb Raider the series responsible for bringing the original girl video game star Lara Croft is making its way to Android as a SHIELD TV exclusive from NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios doing the porting work. Now if you’re a GeForce Now member you may have noticed it’s also been on that service too making it the […]
The Google Home has a lot to live up to facing the Amazon Alexa Family. Today it gets iHeartRadio as a new source. to play music from. Earlier today, Google updated its list of supported services on the Home to include iHeartRadio. Asking it to play most stations seems to result in the standard “It isn’t available or […]
Android TV is very flexible ecosystem and Android as a whole has historically been open to whatever you want to add if you can write it. When Google Cast came out people loved the idea of a ChromeCast but wanted to skip new hardware and add it to any Android device they had, so that […]
Each week NVIDIA aims to keep gamers happy with a new game on Geforce Now or the Android platform and usually it’s exclusive to the SHIELD platform. This week they’ve take an old-school hack-and-slash dungeon crawler and merge it with an art treatment reminiscent of Tron. Called [email protected] I’d watch the trailer below to learn […]
It’s was Tuesday…but now it’s Thursday so you know what that means, NVIDIA bringing another game to the SHIELD TV and this one is a big name console title. Courtesy of the great developers at Square Enix SHIELD TV & Geforce Now members will be able to play as Adam Jensen in Deus Ex: Human […]
As many of you know NVIDIA graced us with the Geforce Experience 5.0 update that brought a ton of changes and improvements for even the most hardcore cord cutters, yes those with a 10.1 setup, they care. Well they also gave us a new toy to play with, some of it new some of it stuff […]
