Set Your Clock: NVIDIA To Host ‘Made To Game’ Event At 7PM PST Tonight

Whether you’re in San Francisco attending the ongoing Game Developers Conference or sitting at home anywhere else on earth, NVIDIA wants you to check out its ‘Made To Game’ event this evening, which will be kicking-off at 7PM PST (10PM EST) for online folk and 6PM (check-in) for the locals. Why? Because what’s going to be unveiled will encompass five-years’ worth of effort, and with it, the company promises to ‘redefine the future of gaming’.

Based on the timing, I would have figured that this event would be used to launch a Tegra X1-based SHIELD Tablet, but given the fact that this product has been in development for over five years, it sounds far more likely that it could be a smartphone made for gaming. If not that, what else could it possibly be?

Similar efforts have not been immensely successful in the past – Sony’s Xperia PLAY comes to mind – but this is a different time. The Android ecosystem is rich with gaming content, and for fans of classic gaming, emulators can help take that gaming content to an entirely new level. And – emulation is something NVIDIA pays attention to (even if it doesn’t promote it), as a recent SHIELD portable update had a single fix, and it related to emulation.

But again, we can’t just assume it’s going to be a gaming phone. If not, could it be VR-related? After all, while NVIDIA supports VR, it has no product to call its own. Perhaps it’s a product we’re not expecting. A brand-new compact GPU that delivers unparalleled gaming performance in the smallest of form-factors? Oh, the list of guesses could go on and on.

We’ll of course cover whatever’s unveiled tonight afterwards, but for those wanting to discover it live, be sure to hit up http://madetogame.com/ before 7PM PST (10PM EST) for the livestream. Until then, speculate on!