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Kotaku Gift Guide: Gaming Tablets
It was only this year that I, personally, picked up a tablet and one of my main reasons for doing so was gaming. Messing around with games on smartphones is one thing, but a bigger screen and a higher resolution really does make for a better handheld gaming experience. But the tablet market is swamped, which is best for gaming? Well, it’s difficult to say…
My New Favourite Tablet Stand Gently Cups My Thigh
Since taking up duties as Kotaku’s official mobile gaming guy, I’ve started spending a large amount of time sitting outside on my patio, trying to look busy while playing games on my iPad or my Transformer Prime. The PadPivot is my constant companion, resting reassuringly upon my thigh and keeping my tablet safe and secure.
Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet Is The Best Way To Play Android Games
Your average Android phone is nice and portable, but the display sure is tiny. A full-sized Tegra tablet is a joy to work with, but a larger profile doesn’t make for hours of comfortable gaming. With its seven inch 1280×800 HD display, Google’s new mid-sized Tegra tablet is just the right size for hours of on-the-go gaming.
Google Plays Up Nexus 7 Tablet Gaming Chops
“Who said mobile gaming has to be casual?” quipped Google’s engineering director, Chris Yerga, at the company’s launch of its first ever tablet this morning. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but the 7-inch (1280 x 800) handheld does have attractive mobile gaming specs: a quad-core Tegra 3 CPU, gyroscope, accelerometer, and a 12-core graphics chip. At $249 in Australia next month, can you see yourself on the train with one instead of, say, a ~$349 PS Vita? Watch the Nexus 7 in action…
