Back in November, we published news about the NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet update to Android 5.0. A part of the update was the “Green Box” promotion, which gives Half-Life 2, Portal, and Half-Life 2: Episode One free with the purchase of a 32GB LTE SHIELD Tablet. Today, Half-Life 2: Episode One launches on Google Play store for $7.99 USD (or free with the Green Box). Unlike Half-Life 2 and Portal, which runs on the original NVIDIA SHIELD, Episode One requires an NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet. It also requires a controller.
Like the previous release of Half-Life 2 and Portal, this is a complete port to the ARM architecture of NVIDIA Tegra K1. The game will run natively on the device, without being streamed from a host PC. For a little perspective, the Tegra K1 has a little more compute performance than a GeForce 9600 GT – a popular mid-range GPU that launched two years after Episode One.
Half-Life 2: Episode One launched today for $7.99 USD (or free with “The Green Box” bundle).
Guess valve doesn’t wanna let
Guess valve doesn’t wanna let HL2 go away. But the rest of us just want HL2: Episode 3 or half-life 3 already.
Exclusives suck. Better to
Exclusives suck. Better to just buy a Windows tablet.
Too bad it doesn’t support
Too bad it doesn’t support the old Shield, as I’ve never actually played this game and would consider buying it.
So nvidia has already dropped
So nvidia has already dropped new development for the original Shield?
That was quick!