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It’s like a match made in heaven. Agawi and Marvell have partnered up to combine a cloud-based gaming platform with the equipment that powers many popular Google TV devices. Together, both companies will offer a white-label Android gaming solution to OEMs, internet and cable providers, game publishers and retailers. As a result, we may see a number of smart TV devices begin cropping up that support Agawi’s CloudPlay gaming service. Whether this solution poses a legitimate threat to the console business remains to be seen, but we’re going to scour the floor at CES to bring you a demo of the system in action. In the meantime, full PR follows the break.

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Synaptics may have designs on becoming a keyboard company, but at heart, it’s a touch and sensor company. It’s realized that as tablet bezels get smaller, the greater the chance you’ll suffer unintended touches from the meaty parts of your paw. We’ve just spent time at a behind-closed-doors demonstration of Sensa, a grip-sending tablet that can work out which hand is you’re using to hold the device and therefore ignore its commands. Interested? We called it a read more link for a reason.

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During our on-stage broadcast with NVIDIA, while we got another look at Project Shield, we were also surprised by the appearance of NVIDIA’s new Tegra 4 reference tablet. Previously out of reach over at the chipmaker’s CES space, we got to exclusively handle it and play some Riptide GP 2 (another first). The device — which won’t ever make its way to consumers — was incredibly light, while the 16:9 11-inch display beamed out Android 4.0.2. There’s a raft of ports for developers to meddle with, including micro-USB, HDMI and storage expansion, as well as some indentations for docks and fixtures.

In our hands, it’s unerringly light — and the NVIDIA guys seemed pretty proud when we mentioned that. Performance on the game and basic navigations was unsurprisingly very slick — the game we tried was developed specifically for NVIDIA’s new mobile chip. However, we weren’t able to steal a glance at the web browser, but we’re likely to see and hear a lot more next month at Mobile World Congress. After the break, we’ve got some playtime with Riptide 2 and a video tour of the device.

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It’s hear, it’s happening — CES 2013. Brad and Myriam (plus a little bit of Tim) took to the stage for the first day of the conference proper. So, if you want to know what’s going down with mobile in Vegas this week, here’s a good place to start.

Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen

Producer: James Trew
Music: Tycho – Coastal Brake (Ghostly International)

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The Steamboxes are here! Well … sort of. The prototypes for various Steambox designs are certainly here at CES 2013, and we just spent a grip of time acquainting our lenses very closely with them. The devices range in size and form factor, as well as origin — several of the devices we saw originate from Valve internal, but inclusions like Alienware’s X51 and Digital Storm’s Bolt were also being held up as examples of the ongoing “Steam in your living room” initiative (note: all the controllers are off-the-shelf Logitech wireless devices, not prototypes). The idea here, as Valve hardware engineer Jeff Keyzer told us, was to show off a variety of form factors for living room-friendly designs. We’ll have more from our meeting later today, but for now you can feast your eyes on the elegant prototypes — as well as Xi3’s Pistin, and the aforementioned other two third-party PCs — that we’ll be sure to see more of as 2013 goes on.

Terrence O’Brien contributed to this report.

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