Previously, the only way to play games on your TV was to hook it up to something, like a console or a PC. With the advent of cloud gaming, as long as you have a fast and stable Internet connection, just using your TV for gaming is perfectly viable. This is what LG is doing by offering an alternative to those who don’t own a gaming machine.
LG will be offering two cloud gaming services on its smart TVs: Blacknut and Utomik Cloud. You might have heard of Blacknut as they recently partnered with Celcom to offer cloud gaming for Celcom subscribers.
Blacknut presents subscribers with over 500 PC and console games, with the greatest variety of premium content for all members of the family and with up to five players’ profiles. The Blacknut catalog offers the largest collection of racing and sports games in the cloud gaming space, but also critically acclaimed hits, such as Metro Exodus, Overcooked and a vast collection of Disney games.
Utomik Cloud boasts a curated and growing selection of 100+ games from its 1,300+ PC games library covering diverse genres with indie favorites like Coffee Talk, My Time at Portia and Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion among the platform’s many highlights.
These cloud-gaming services will be arriving on the LG Apps Store on LG TVs running webOS 6.0 and webOS 2022. You can also access other cloud-gaming services through LG’s Gaming Shelf such as NVIDIA GeForce NOW (only selected titles) and other services such as Google Stadia will be arriving later.
Blacknut will be available on applicable LG Smart TV models in the UK, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland from September, in North America later this year, and in more regions worldwide by the first quarter of 2023.
Utomik Cloud will launch starting in November in the US, the UK, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
No news yet of when it will be arriving in Malaysia.
