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hi this is beater bone for The Verge and we are watching Street Fighter 4 playing on an LG Smart TV streaming over the Internet they've just announced a new partnership with Gaikai which is a streaming game company competitor 2 on life that's owned by gamestop and so you can see some of the games they've got in the library here although LG is not yet announcing what games they're going to offer but it's not going to be gai Kai's an entire library chances are pretty good at least this is what guy Kai tells us that they're going to pick games that are compatible with the standard USB game pads and that's probably because that's how you play games on the system you use a standard USB gamepad either wired plugging the USB into the TV or if you've got a wireless gamepad as a USB dongle as you can see here the game is load up fairly quickly we've already gotten through our standard splash screens and whatnot guy tells us that they optimized for a low latency and so even if they have to sacrifice a little bit of image quality no matter what they want to have the shortest latency possible so that they can have the most responsive games possible and so they don't do much caching and whatnot this should launch on LG Smart TVs later on this year on the late 2012 models and we don't know pricing structure yet they haven't announced that yet so we don't know what games will be free if you'll need to pay if there'll be a subscription service or what so here it is this is a Gaikai service running directly natively on an LG Smart TV without any extra boxes attached thanks for watching