{"id":53395,"date":"2022-08-03T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=53395"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:46:29","slug":"samsung-and-amazon-team-up-to-bring-amazon-luna-to-gaming-hub-now-available-on-2022-smart-tvs-and-smart-monitor-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-amazon-luna-gaming-hub-2022-smart-tvs-smart-monitor-series-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung and Amazon Team Up to Bring Amazon Luna to Gaming Hub, Now Available on 2022 Smart TVs and Smart Monitor Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Amazon today announced that Amazon Luna is now available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/televisions-home-theater\/tvs\/gaming-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samsung Gaming Hub\u00b9<\/a> a new game streaming discovery platform available on 2022 Samsung Smart TVs\u00b2 and 2022 Smart Monitor Series. Powered by Tizen, Samsung Gaming Hub allows players to instantly access the games they love from industry-leading partners such as Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce NOW, Google Stadia, Utomik, and now Amazon Luna all in one convenient place with no downloads or additional hardware needed.\u00b3<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Amazon Luna joining Samsung Gaming Hub, we are offering more choices than ever for players to jump into the games they love and to discover new ones,\u201d <strong>said Mike Lucero, Samsung Director of Product Management for Gaming.<\/strong> \u201cThe Samsung Gaming Hub is an all-in-one destination for gaming and entertainment. With the addition of Amazon Luna, we now offer over 1000 games to play instantaneously on Samsung Smart TVs, making Samsung Gaming Hub the number one destination to stream games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"embedded recommended recommended-post\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"embedded-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-badge\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Recommended News<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"recommended-card\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/tvs\/tv-showroom\/?r=true&#038;referrer=usnewsroom\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"recommended-news\" aria-label=\"Discover Your Next TV Here \u2013 Learn More\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16165358\/Samsung-OLED-TV-S95B-Lifestyle-2.jpg\" alt=\"Learn More: Discover Your Next TV Here\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"details-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Discover Your Next TV Here<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Learn More<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"article-content\">\n\t\t<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>\u201cPlaying your favorite games straight from the cloud just became easier than ever with Amazon Luna and the Samsung Gaming Hub,\u201d <strong>said George Tsipolitis, Director of Amazon Luna.<\/strong> \u201cBy teaming up with Samsung, we\u2019re bringing our growing collection of games, unlimited gameplay channels including the Retro Channel and Jackbox Channel, and the Prime Gaming Channel that offers Amazon Prime members a rotating selection of games to play for free. It\u2019s a winning combination that provides even more value and options to 2022 Samsung TV owners and gamers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Luna is a cloud gaming service that allows players to choose from more than 250 titles and play on PCs, Macs, Fire TVs, Fire tablets, iOS and Android phones and tablets, and Chromebooks. Beginning today, Luna users can also link their profiles to the Samsung Gaming Hub and continue to play on Samsung\u2019s 2022 television models.<\/p>\n\n<p>Using the Samsung Gaming Hub\u2019s controller passthrough technology, gamers can choose to play their Amazon Luna titles with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07P989QTJ?ref=tmp_Amz_landing_page\">Luna Controller<\/a> or with any other supported Bluetooth controller. Also just launched this month are four free games as part of the Prime Gaming Channel offer, including: <em>Control Ultimate Edition<\/em>, <em>Myst,<\/em> <em>Garfield Kart<\/em> and <em>Steel Assault<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Gaming Hub began rolling out on June 30, 2022 and brings better, faster and more convenient access to all things gaming within Samsung TVs, bridging Samsung\u2019s expertise in hardware and software for an optimal gaming experience. For more details on the Samsung Gaming Hub visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/televisions-home-theater\/tvs\/gaming-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/televisions-home-theater\/tvs\/gaming-hub\/<\/a> or Amazon Luna visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazonluna.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.amazonluna.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h6>1\u00a0<em>Availability of Gaming Hub may vary by region. Amazon Luna is available only in the US.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6>2\u00a0<em>2022 Samsung Smart TV models above BU8000.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6>3<em> Service availability for partners may vary by region.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Luna Launches on Samsung Gaming Hub, Bringing Free Games with Amazon Prime and a Growing List of Partner Channels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":69201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29727,29718,29728],"tags":[766,30000,125],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-53395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-home-entertainment","category-product","category-product-home-entertainment-tv-home-theaters","tag-home-entertainment","tag-samsung-gaming-hub","tag-television-tv"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/14124506\/samsung-amazon-luna-featured-new-200x200.png","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/14124506\/samsung-amazon-luna-featured-new-432x286.png","primary_category":{"term_id":29727,"name":"Home Entertainment","slug":"product-home-entertainment","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29727,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":29718,"count":344,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/product\/product-home-entertainment\/","term_path":"product\/product-home-entertainment"},"badge":"Press Release","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53395"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=53395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}