Consumer electronics company LG has inked a deal with Unity Technologies to bring games built on its popular game engine to a new line of Smart TVs.
This collaboration follows another recent deal LG struck with cloud gaming service Gaikai to deliver streaming games through its Smart TVs, and is part of a larger strategy at the company to increase the value of its HDTVs as "all-in-one multimedia systems" by offering an array of games.
LG's 2012 HDTV models are designed to play video games without requiring additional hardware or accessories from other companies, as they come with a new gyroscopic motion controller called the Magic Motion Remote, as well as a more powerful video processor meant to handle a wide variety of games.
The Korean company is working with Unity Technologies' Union division, which helps developers bring Unity engine-powered projects to new platforms. Announced titles coming to LG's Smart TVs from Union's catalog include mobile ports like Madfinger's shooter Shadowgun and Kiloo's motion-controlled Frisbee Forever.
This is comforting , in a phone interview I had earlier this week a certain console developer was stating how there really was no use for unity outside of moble development
Wow...game development is starting to fragment quite a bit from PCs, consoles, web, handhelds, mobiles, cloud services, and now smart TVs. Next up, Fruit Ninja on the LG Refridgerator. :)
