What just happened? LG's televisions have a reputation for existence the best gaming sets coin can buy, and they're about to get even more than appealing to gamers. Subsequently announcing the feature early on this year, Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud game-streaming service is rolling out in beta form to some of the company'due south new TVs.

In January, LG said it would start adding the GeForce Now app to select televisions in the second half of the year. It's finally arriving in select 2022 LG 4K OLED, QNED Mini LED, and NanoCell TV models in eighty markets from today.

While the WebOS app is nevertheless classified equally being in beta, LG writes that it should exist fully functional and available through the LG Content Store.

It should be noted that games will be capped at 60fps and 1080p resolution, and so in that location's no taking advantage of any TVs' 4K/120Hz capabilities—you could always use an Nvidia Shield Television set instead, which can stream in 4K and HDR. The app'southward also limited to ii-channel stereo, and keyboard/mouse combos are restricted to browsing, though all supported controllers nevertheless work with the games.

In improver to beingness able to play PC games you already ain, there are more than than 35 free-to-play titles available on GeForce At present.

Every GeForce At present tier is supported, including the recently introduced 'Highest Performance' RTX 3080 tier ($100 for six months), which utilizes the power of that loftier-end Ampere card. However, information technology seems you won't be able to apply the 1440p/120fps available with the option through LG's new TV app.

Nvidia notes that GeForce Now Priority members ($50 for half-dozen months) become priority access to gaming servers, premium RTX rigs, and vi-60 minutes session lengths, whereas free tier users get a bones rig, standard access, and are express to one-hour sessions. Paid subscribers also get a free re-create of Crysis Remastered.

LG'south original announcement said the Google Stadia app would also come to LG TVs this year, before GeForce Now, merely nosotros're however waiting for the onetime to arrive.