This early morning, an epic game by the name of Ravensword: Shadowlands arrived on Google Play. The game is an RPG, but brings one of the largest and most immersive worlds to mobile devices ever seen. In the game, you play as a hero who must find powerful weapons, collect rare items, and basically solve the mysteries and beat the baddies. 

Features:

• Enormous 3d world to explore
• First Person and 3rd Person on the fly switching
• Gorgeous and realistic scenery
• Ragdoll Physics
• Hundreds of items to use
• Reflex and precision based combat with manual blocking and dodging
• Flying Mounts
• Tons of enemy types including huge prehistoric creatures. (including massive T-Rex’s)

It costs a whopping $7, but you will be happy to know it works on my full list of devices, which is rather extensive, so you shouldn’t run into any compatibility issues. Go enjoy yourself.

Play Link ($6.99)

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Ravensword: Shadowlands Now Available on Google Play for $7 is a post from: Droid Life

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In this video, a rep from a company called 3DiVi takes us through a demo of their new Nuidroid motion tracking software. 3DiVi, coupled with the Ouya gaming console, works much like the Kinect does that partners with the Xbox. Using a special ASUS-built motion sensor, 3DiVi’s Nuidroid tracks your movements which then translates into commands for games and applications. 

In this demo, we see how 3DiVi tracks a body, which allows our demoer to control a video game. With a partnership through Ouya, they are hoping to bring this software to the market sometime this year.

To learn more about eyeSight, check out their site here.

Video: Demo of 3DiVi’s Nuidroid Software at GTC is a post from: Droid Life

At the 2013 CES, NVIDIA took center stage with Project SHIELD, showing off an upcoming Android title called Real Boxing. Well, we still don’t have SHIELD (and you know how I feel about that), but Real Boxing hit Google Play this AM. Real Boxing is the most life-like fighting experience you will find on Android currently, bringing enhanced 3D graphics and lighting. The game is so detailed, you will see every drop of blood as you pummel it out of your opponent. 

That’s all find and dandy, but what sort of puts a bad taste in my mouth is that the title is currently a Tegra exclusive title. So, most phones are already out of the picture and it’s basically limited to anyone that owns an ASUS tablet. Hooray for the openness of Android. Rant over.

The game costs $5 in Google Play, which may not be too bad if boxing is your sport of choice.

Play Link ($4.99)

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Real Boxing Hits Google Play, Remains a Tegra Exclusive Title For Now is a post from: Droid Life

Juicy rumor time, folks. According to Russian tech site, Mobile Review, NVIDIA has major plans for 2013 that go way beyond that of Project SHIELD and Tegra 4. Apparently, NVIDIA is currently looking to work with local and regional hardware manufacturers to get themselves directly into designing and making devices. The process is called white-labeling and it’s nothing new in the industry. As a quick reference, one company makes the product, then another slaps their logo/name on it and calls it their own, saving the expenses of investing in the necessary infrastructure. 

From what is in the report, NVIDIA has their eyes set on both tablets and smartphones, with plans to start designing and creating their devices around May or June of this very year. If all goes according to plan, we will begin to see a ton of cheap (but not any less in quality terms) 7-10″ tablets hitting the market, all running NVIDIA chipsets.

Now, for a Tegra fanboy such as myself this is great news, but I am also a little worried when a company would literally dive headfirst into hardware. No, they aren’t new kids on the block by any means, but I am somewhat curious as to how these tablets/phones will turn out since they are being manufactured by “smaller” companies. If anything, this is another great way for them to peddle Tegra-exclusive games and apps.

NVIDIA branded hardware – do you want it?

Via: Unwired View | Mobile Review

NVIDIA Looks to Enter the Smartphone and Tablet Manufacturing Game By Way of “White-Labeling” is a post from: Droid Life

Day 5 of the Week of Holiday Tegra is upon us! That means this is the last day as we head into a long holiday weekend. We have already given away seven tablets, courtesy of our friends at NVIDIA., all of which can take advantage of the gaming power provided by Tegra 3 processors. But today, we’re giving away another four (4) along with $25 gift cards. If you were looking to win a last minute present, this is your last chance. Ready?

The rest of this week’s prizes:

• Day 1 – (3) Nexus 7 16GB
• Day 2 – Transformer Pad TF300 + dock + Logitech controller
• Day 3 – Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 + dock + Logitech controller
• Day 4 – (2) Acer A110 + $25 AMEX Gift Card
• Day 5 – (4) Lenovo A2109 + $25 AMEX Gift Card

Contest

Update: Sorry for the wait, folks! Congrats to Drew Chapman, DroidLifer, James Taylor, and Scott Haggerty! Happy holidays to all of you!

Prize:  4 (four) Lenovo A2109 tablets + $25 AMEX Gift Cards.

How to enter:

1.  ”Like” the NVIDIA Tegra Facebook page or follow @NVIDIATegra on Twitter.
2.  ”Like” the Droid Life Facebook page or follow @droid_life on Twitter.
3.  In the comments, simply wish everyone “Happy Holidays.”

Winners:

Today, at 4PM PST, we’ll randomly choose winners from the comments.

Eligible countries:

US (excluding Puerto Rico and its other territories and possessions), Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, Australia, China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau), Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India (excluding the State of Tamil Nadu), and Brazil.

Week of Holiday Tegra: Win 1 of 4 Lenovo IdeaTabs Plus $25 Gift Cards [Day 5] (Update: Winners Picked!) is a post from: Droid Life

It’s Day 3! This week, we are teaming up with NVIDIA to bring our readers the “Week of Holiday Tegra” event. They have been extremely generous with the prizes, so make sure to check out the Tegra Zone, where you can find the best mobile games available for Android.

Yesterday, we gave away a pretty awesome Tegra bundle, with a Transformer Pad, lapdock, and Logitech controller for a full gaming experience. Today, we have a Transformer Pad Infinity, matching lapdock, and another Logitech gaming controller. Let’s do this! 

The rest of this week’s schedule:

• Day 1 – (3) Nexus 7 16GB
• Day 2 – Transformer Pad TF300 + dock + Logitech controller
• Day 3 – Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 + dock + Logitech controller
• Day 4 – (2) Acer A110 + $25 AMEX Gift Card
• Day 5 – (4) Lenovo A2109 + $25 AMEX Gift Card

Contest

Update: We have our winner! Congrats to Jeff who wants to be in Cabo for two months!

Prize:  1 (one) Asus TF300 Transformer Pad Infinity with keyboard dock and Logitech controller.

How to enter:

1.  ”Like” the NVIDIA Tegra Facebook page or follow @NVIDIATegra on Twitter.
2.  ”Like” the Droid Life Facebook page or follow @droid_life on Twitter.
3.  In the comments, tell us what your ultimate winter vacation would consist of.

Winners:

Today, at 4PM PST, we’ll randomly choose the winner from the comments and announce their name on air tonight during The Droid Life Show. Don’t miss it! And don’t worry, we’ll email our winner to make sure they don’t miss their prize.

Eligible countries:

US (excluding Puerto Rico and its other territories and possessions), Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, Australia, China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau), Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India (excluding the State of Tamil Nadu), and Brazil.

Week of Holiday Tegra: Win a Transformer Pad Infinity With Dock and Controller From NVIDIA [Day 3] (Update: Winner Picked) is a post from: Droid Life

Day 2! All week long, we’ll be handing out fabulous Tegra 3 powered devices to the DL community in our “Week of Holiday Tegra” event, thanks to our friends at NVIDIA. They put up a massive amount of prizes, all of which take advantage of the gaming potential that their Tegra 3 processor contains. Been to the Tegra Zone lately? If there is one mobile company that is doing everything in their power to push mobile gaming forward, it’s NVIDIA. 

Yesterday, we gave away three Nexus 7 tablets in a mega-contest that saw well over 2000 entries. Today, we’re giving away just one prize, but it’s quite the bundle. How does an Asus Transformer Pad (TF300) with keyboard dock and Logitech gaming controller sound?

The rest of this week’s schedule:

• Day 1 – (3) Nexus 7 16GB
• Day 2 – Transformer Pad TF300 + dock + Logitech controller
• Day 3 – Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 + dock + Logitech controller
• Day 4 – (2) Acer A110 + $25 AMEX Gift Card
• Day 5 – (4) Lenovo A2109 + $25 AMEX Gift Card

Contest

Update:  And our winner is…Kevin, who has a diversified tech setup, with products from LG, Sony, Samsung, and JVC.

Prize:  1 (one) Asus TF300 Transformer Pad with keyboard dock and Logitech controller.

How to enter:

1.  ”Like” the NVIDIA Tegra Facebook page or follow @NVIDIATegra on Twitter.
2.  ”Like” the Droid Life Facebook page or follow @droid_life on Twitter.
3.  In the comments, describe your tech setup (phones you own, tablets, computers, gaming systems, TVs, etc.).

Winners:

Today, at 4PM Pacific, we’ll randomly choose the winner from the comments.

Eligible countries:

US (excluding Puerto Rico and its other territories and possessions), Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, Australia, China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau), Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India (excluding the State of Tamil Nadu), and Brazil.

Week of Holiday Tegra: Win an Asus Transformer Pad With Keyboard Dock and Logitech Gaming Controller [Day 2] is a post from: Droid Life

NVIDIA’s next-gen processor, codenamed “Wayne,” may have leaked out in a company slide yesterday. The mobile processor that most of us figure will be dubbed the Tegra 4, will reportedly sport a 72-core GPU, support 1080p (2560×1440) resolutions, and produce 6x the graphical performance of the Tegra 3. It’s quad-core CPU architecture remains somewhat the same, but NVIDIA will now use ARM Cortex A-15 cores. The Tegra 4 will use 28nm process, making it as power efficient as the Snapdragon S4. The slide also mentions something about supporting 4k, USB 3.0, and dual-channel DDR3L memory.

Overall, this sounds like a giant step forward for NVIDIA. We’re big fans of the Tegra 3 and the work that NVIDIA puts in to bring gaming to mobile devices, so this sounds like exactly what we were hoping would be next in the Tegra 4.

The last rumor we saw suggested that devices could ship in Q1 2013 with the Tegra 4 inside.

Via:  Chip Hell | Engadget

Tegra 4 “Wayne” Details Leak, 72-core GPU and 6x Faster Performance is a post from: Droid Life

 

Our month of massive giveaways continues! Last week, Google put five Nexus 7s and five $25 Google Play gift cards, in what turned out to be some of the more entertaining contests we have ever done. This week, it’s all about NVIDIA and their Tegra 3 processor. For the next five days, we’ll give away 11 tablets powered by a Tegra processor to the best Android community on the planet. Yes, I just said eleven.  

The schedule of events will look something like this:

• Day 1 – (3) Nexus 7 16GB
• Day 2 – TF300 + dock + Logitech controller
• Day 3 – TF700 + dock + Logitech controller
• Day 4 – (2) Acer A110 + $25 AMEX Gift Card
• Day 5 – (4) Lenovo A2109 + $25 AMEX Gift Card

So as you can see, for today, we’re giving away three (3) Nexus 7 16GB tablets thanks to our friends at NVIDIA. Ready?

Contest

Update: We have our three winners! Go check your inbox!

Prizes:  3 (three) Nexus 7 16GB tablets

How to enter:

1.  ”Like” the NVIDIA Tegra Facebook page.
2.  ”Like” the Droid Life Facebook page.
3.  In the comments, tell us what your favorite video game of all time is.

Winners:

Today, at 4PM Pacific, we’ll randomly choose three winners from the comments.

Eligible countries:

US (excluding Puerto Rico and its other territories and possessions), Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, Australia, China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau), Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India (excluding the State of Tamil Nadu), and Brazil.

Week of Holiday Tegra: Win 1 of 3 Nexus 7s From Droid Life and NVIDIA [Day 1] (Update: Winners Picked) is a post from: Droid Life

Today, AT&T announced that customers can get their hands on the HTC One X+ and the HTC One VX on November 16, with pre-orders going live for the One X+ starting tomorrow, November 13. For those not following the devices, the One X+ is just like the original One X, except it features a supercharged Tegra 3 processor that is 4G LTE compatible, clocked at 1.7GHz and Jelly Bean. As for the One VX, it is more of a mid-range Android device, featuring a 4.5″ qHD display, 5MP shooter, Jelly Bean, and HTC’s Sense 4 custom UI.

Any chance one of these are on your radar?

Via: AT&T

AT&T Announce HTC One X+ and One VX Launch Date of November 16 is a post from: Droid Life

If you need any more evidence that we have moved into a post-PC era, the quote from NVIDIA President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang should be a clear indication for you. In a revenue conference call today, Huang said that consumers know that “a great tablet is better than a cheap PC.” Not a very surprising quote considering the Tegra 3 powers many mobile devices today and NVIDIA’s graphics cards are usually implemented in higher-end PCs.

Huang also dropped numbers about how NVIDIA was doing with an increase of 13% bringing the company $1.2 billion from just this last quarter. It was mentioned that the Tegra line, was making up for the downturn in PC sales numbers. You can expect NVIDIA to be putting more effort into their mobile chips since we are anxiously awaiting the Tegra 4 to be coming in the near future.

Via: Venture Beat

President of NVIDIA Says a “Great Tablet is Better Than a Cheap PC” is a post from: Droid Life

Day 4 of Reader Appreciation Week starts now! To kick the day off, let’s give away a combo – the Asus Transformer Pad TF300T in blue and a matching keyboard dock. Sporting a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, 8MP rear camera, and battery life for days when docked, this is what we like to call a “Winning Team.” Thanks again to NVIDIA, one lucky DL reader gets one heck of a package. 

Contest

Update:  And our winner is @iiBinxx who went with pizza because it’s a college student’s best friend.

Prize:  1 (one) Transformer Pad TF300T and 1 (one) Pad keyboard dock.

How to enter:

1.  Follow @droid_life and @NVIDIATegra on Twitter.
2.  Like this post on Facebook (button on the left).
3.  +1 this post on Google+.
4.  Tweet the following message:

I just entered to win a Transformer Pad and keyboard dock from @droid_life and @NVIDIATegra - http://bit.ly/Qz8fzc #android #contest

5.  In the comments, tell us – burger, hot dog or pizza – and why?

Winner:

Tomorrow (9/28) at 9:00AM PT, we will randomly choose a winner.

Good luck!

Contest: Win a Transformer Pad and Keyboard Dock From NVIDIA and Droid Life! [RAW] (Updated: Winner Picked) is a post from: Droid Life

With news of Texas Instruments pulling their OMAP line of mobile processors out of the game, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to find out the preferred processor for your smartphones and tablets. Clearly, the strongest player in 2012 has been Qualcomm and their Snapdragon S4 that has been thrown in just about every LTE device. NVIDIA with their Tegra 3 and Samsung with their Exynos have lagged behind a touch because of LTE, but things are about to change on that front. We also have Intel as a new player that will eventually make some noise.

Is there a chipset in particular that you prefer? Are you thrilled with the efficiency and power of the Snapdragon S4, especially when paired with LTE? What about the gaming and graphics processing beast, the Tegra 3? Or are you more interested in finally getting the quad-core Exynos processor and LTE in something like the Galaxy Note 2?

And processor gurus, we would love for you to geek out on this one in the comments.

Wednesday Poll: Preferred Mobile Processor? is a post from: Droid Life

Day 3 of Reader Appreciation Week is here! On day 1, we gave away a Nexus 7. Yesterday, we gave away an HTC One X. Today, well, let’s go big (as in screen size) and hook someone up with a Toshiba Excite 10. While we may not have given the Excite 10 a ton of love as it arrived during a time when 10″ tablets were flooding the market and rarely stood out from one another, it’s safe to say that this device is no slouch. Thanks to its Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, 10.1″ Autobrite Gorilla Glass display, dual cameras, and variety of ports (including a full sized SD card slot), it matches up nicely to most tablets in the industry on paper.

Who wants one?  

Contest

Update: We have our winner! Thanks to everyone that has entered. We still have two days left of goodies!

Prize:  1 (one) Toshiba Excite 10 tablet

How to enter:

1.  In the comments, tell us what your favorite Android device of all time is, and why.
2.  Feel free to share the contest post on your favorite social network.
3.  Here is a Tweet that we would love to see you share:

Follow @droid_life and @NVIDIATegra to win a Toshiba Excite 10 tablet!  http://bit.ly/UVQrQ2 #android #contest #raw

4.  Also, follow us on Twitter, Google+, and Facebook if you aren’t already.

Winner:

Tomorrow (9/27) at 9:00AM PT, we will randomly choose a winner from the comments.

A big “Thanks!” again goes out to NVIDIA for putting up so many amazing prizes this week, including the Toshiba Excite 10. Be sure to check out the Tegra Zone for all of your gaming needs.

Good luck!

Contest: Win a Toshiba Excite 10 From NVIDIA and Droid Life! [RAW] (Update: Winner Picked) is a post from: Droid Life

Today, Texas Instruments has come out and announced that they will be looking to “shift focus” away from their mobile processor business. In a market that has become increasingly dominated by Qualcomm, NVIDIA and Samsung, Texas Instruments has not found the wiggle room to keep their business going. This could mean that we won’t see their new OMAP5 processor either.

While the OMAP Platform may have powered some of our most beloved phones like most of Motorola’s DROID line, the Galaxy Nexus, and the Kindle Fire, we won’t be seeing much out of them anymore. They do plan to continue to support current devices for the time being, but will mostly focus their efforts on a broader and more stable market, like cars.

The good news for us is that we are still getting great chips like the Snapdragon S4 and Tegra 3 in our mobile devices. At the same time though, we always love competition, and this means one less player is in the game.

Sad to see TI go?

Via:  Reuters

Texas Instruments Gives up on OMAP Platform for Phones, Looking to Shift Focus is a post from: Droid Life