TransGaming's GameTree TV on Vizio TVs.
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Making smart TVs fun: Casual cloud games come to Vizio's big sceens

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gaming on smart TVs is getting a kickstart today as TV maker Vizio is announcing that its smart televisions will come with TransGaming‘s GameTree TV cloud-gaming service. The deal is a big endorsement from the TV market leader in the U.S. for games played on a smart TV without the need for a game console.

TransGaming delivers on-demand, family-friendly games to the TV via a cloud-based Internet service. When you use a remote to click on games on a Vizio smart TV, TransGaming’s user interface (which resembles a tree) will appear. You can then click on a game and play it with a remote control or with a game controller. TransGaming and a lot of developers hope that the smart TV will be the next big frontier for gaming apps.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.