{"id":215684,"date":"2024-03-21T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/samsung-rebrands-the-game-launcher-on-its-phones-to-gaming-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:14","slug":"samsung-rebrands-the-game-launcher-on-its-phones-to-gaming-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/samsung-rebrands-the-game-launcher-on-its-phones-to-gaming-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung rebrands the Game Launcher on its phones to Gaming Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Samsung has an app called \u201cGame Launcher\u201d on its phones and a \u201cGaming Hub\u201d on its smart displays (everything from smart TVs to projectors). This is a bit confusing since the two are basically the same app \u2013 and now they will have the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung announced that it is rebranding the Launcher to Gaming Hub. Nothing will change but the shortcut used to launch the app.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"625\" alt=\"The Game Launcher is being rebranded to Gaming Hub\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/03\/samsung-game-launcher-rebrand\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<span><strong>The Game Launcher is being rebranded to Gaming Hub<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Gaming Hub was first introduced in 2022 and allows you to connect a wireless controller to the display and use the popular game streaming services. Samsung even has its own service called \u201cInstant Plays\u201d \u2013 no download or installation required, just hit play.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/03\/samsung-game-launcher-rebrand\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung rebrands the Game Launcher on its phones to Gaming Hub\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the press release notes, Instant Plays is available on the mobile Gaming Hub too. But that\u2019s hardly new \u2013 it has been around since at least 2022. To be fair, the feature is still in beta after all that time. And if you haven\u2019t heard of Instant Plays before, it\u2019s likely because of the limited availability \u2013 the feature is available only in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"188\" alt=\"Instant Plays gets you into the game much faster\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/03\/samsung-game-launcher-rebrand\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_003.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<span><strong>Instant Plays gets you into the game much faster<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is something for game developers too, from the press release: \u201cSamsung\u2019s cloud platform supports Android native APKs, provides a cloud-based attribution solution with major mobile measurement partner (MMP) providers, and supports existing in-game monetization models for a seamless fit with game publishers\u2019 current operations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-gaming-hub-for-mobile-discover-and-play-instantly-on-galaxy-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-rebrands-game-launcher-gaming-hub-mobile-3427438\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Via<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_rebrands_the_game_launcher_on_its_phones_to_gaming_hub-news-62101.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Samsung has an app called \u201cGame Launcher\u201d on its phones and a \u201cGaming Hub\u201d on its smart displays (everything from smart TVs to projectors).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335306,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215684\/revisions\/335306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}