Gaikai-Powered Samsung Cloud Gaming

Gaikai has partnered Samsung and announced that it will be bringing its cloud gaming service to become accessible through Samsung Smart TVs. Citing Gamasutra, the Samsung Smart TV owner will be able to stream and play games using the cloud service.

The new service will be available to owners of both Sammy’s premium LED and Plasma TVs from the 7000 series on up, while plasma owners will have to wait a bit longer.

Samsung Cloud Gaming (SCG) will soon accept beta signups for users with ES7100, ES7500, and ES8000 LED TVs, though support for more other TVs has yet to be revealed at E3 event. The both companies promise that SCG will deliver a mix of family-friendly and AAA video games. The Games will launch via the Samsung Smart Hub and headed to this summer to check it out firsthand.

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Source – Engadget