Google TV already lets you use your phone as a remote control for streaming, and soon that could extend to playing games.

My Pixel Watch became my backup TV remote ...

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Google is working on a new feature for the Google TV app that allows users to use their smartphone screen as a virtual gamepad. Discovered in an app update teardown, the upcoming control mode builds ...

Some phones have IR blasters to enable remote functions, but even if yours doesn't, you can do quite a lot over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

They fixed the Google TV problems I'd gotten used to ...