Google is bringing mobile games to television with Android TV

Google isn’t ceding the television to Apple, Amazon, and others. The company has its own plans to conquer the living room, and it involves gaming.

At its annual Google I/O developer event today in San Francisco, the company announced Android TV, which is a platform that it’s building to work specifically with TV sets that runs on its open-source operating system. Unlike Amazon’s Fire TV box, Android TV isn’t itself a consumer product. It is a platform. Google will work with a variety of vendors to integrate the this directly into TV sets from companies like Sony as well as set-top boxes from Asus, Razer, and others. Android TV will enable people to run apps on their TVs, and that of course includes mobile games — joining a host of other boxes (none of which have gained a significant foothold) that play Android games in the living room.