Project xCloud on the NVIDIA Shield is almost like playing a regular Xbox
(Windows Phone Central)

The only Android TV box worth buying is already part games console, and xCloud takes that even further. Microsoft`s xCloud Xbox Game Streaming being available on Android gives us a certain amount of flexibility to play around and see what we can make it do. Whether that`s testing every controller under the sun or, in this case, sideloading it onto the only Android TV box that`s ever really been worth buying, the NVIDIA Shield. Unlike the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, which left me disappointed when trying this same thing, the NVIDIA Shield has a lot more going for it. It`s absurdly powerful for a device like this, so much so that there are native Android versions of games like Tomb Raider and Half-Life 2 built to play on it. It also supports NVIDIA`s GeForce Now streaming service and Steam Link, so already things are looking more promising. And while the same applies to the Fire TV Stick 4K in so much as it`s not officially supported and requires sideloading, but it does work. And it w...