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there are new ways to play mobile games on your television I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update nvidia has raised another shield to stream android games the new product is called the Nvidia shield tablet which has an 8-inch screen and it works with a controller sold separately it connects to your TV to be this new type of gaming hybrid merging the worlds of tablets and television consoles for gaming on the go last year and Vidya came up with a smaller version of this concept it was simply called the Nvidia shield and it was a video game controller attached to a small screen the new shield tablet offers gaming with more flexibility to just use it as a tablet it's built with top-of-the-line hardware including dual speakers and two high-end cameras a tucked-in stylus and of course it has great graphics for gaming it starts at three hundred dollars for the tablet and the controller is another sixty dollars it arrives in the US next week on tuesday july twenty ninth and it'll roll out to other countries soon after this isn't the first time a company has tried to create a gaming tablet last year razer cooked up a tablet that could pop into a case with controller buttons on handles it's called the razer edge it also has a TV docking station so you can use it with more traditional game controllers but unlike Nvidia's android tablet razer edge is a fully loaded windows 8 machine like a surface tablet so it costs much more it starts at a thousand dollars in other news netflix reported it has surpassed 50 million subscribers one new sign that netflix is becoming mainstream gift cards yes you soon will be seen Netflix gift cards in select stores hulu also sells gift cards at retail and for those of you on Netflix that have some guilty pleasure shows like maybe your friends would tease you if they knew what you watched well there's a new feature Netflix is testing out to keep what you stream a secret a new privacy mode keeps the program from appearing in your recently viewed activity log and what you watch will not be used to determine recommendations about what you may want to watch in the future also in the world of streaming if you want to watch TV from anywhere check out the new affordable slingbox m1 it connects to your cable box or DVR to let you stream video from your TV in real time to all sorts of devices it doesn't matter if it's live TV or something recorded from the DVR you can stream it to your PC your smartphone your tablet or another TV with a Roku this new model is one hundred fifty dollars and during our test it had some smooth streaming quality you can check out the full review at cnet com that's your tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey