Just connect your gaming PC and TV to your home network, visit the Samsung Smart Hub to grab the free beta build of the Steam Link app, and voila: your Steam library is accessible on your telly.
If you live in the US, have a Steam Controller and a 2016 or 2017 UHD Samsung smart TV, you can try this out right now. That's right: Steam Link is ditching its limited physical form and manifesting in the world as an enlightened official app instead. It essentially allows you to access your Steam account from the comfort of your couch, without having to drag your gaming PC out to the living room or lay extension cables through the house.Īs convenient as Steam Link is it's about to get even better, as Valve and Samsung have teamed up to eliminate the hardware step in the middle.
Steam Link, for those not in the know, is a little set top box you can plug into your TV in order to quickly and easily stream Steam games over your home network. For best results, Valve recommends hooking up everything with direct Ethernet connections if at all possible.Steam Link, without the extra hardware? I'm listening. While the Shield TV from Nvidia already packs a version of this functionality, this will definitely be handy for Android TV owners hoping to get a little more out of their system. This app works on your phone, of course, but also on Android TV devices. Specifically, your PC and smartphone will need to be running on the same 5GHz network. After downloading the Steam Link beta app, available now on Google Play, you can stream just about any game on your PC over a local network. Now, that same functionality is available with a mobile application.
Interestingly, the Steam Link gave users the ability to stream their PC games over a local network, expanding their PCs to the TV.
A few years back, Valve started developing its own hardware for Steam users, with the Steam Controller and the Steam Link. In case you’re unfamiliar, Steam is the largest gaming platform on PCs, powering hundreds of thousands of games for millions of users. Not long ago, Valve announced that it would be bringing its “Steam Link” service to mobile devices, and today, the beta app has arrived in Google Play. I love gaming on my PC, but after sitting at my desk all day working, I often want to take my gaming over to the couch.
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