"Dota 2", "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", "The Elder Scrolls V" and other hit Steam games can now be played on Google's Chrome OS. But before you start downloading your favorite titles, here's what you need to know about the alpha-quality version of Valve's Steam game store. Plus, why certain Chromebooks can run the software.
This may feel like déjà vu because Google itself mistakenly leaked this announcement a few days ago, but the company today officially announced the launch of Steam OS on Chrome OS. Before you run off to install it, there are a few caveats: This is still an alpha release and only available on the …
Steam on ChromeOS is in beta, but with the right Chromebook, you can play PC games from the Steam store.
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Chromebooks have always been thought of as cheap laptops running a glorified web browser instead of an operating system, but times have certainly changed. Today, you can buy powerful Chromebooks and use them to run local Android and Linux apps and, now, that’s extending to games. Google has …
Google has released the alpha version of Steam on Chrome OS but only for select Chromebooks. Chromebooks have come a long way from their origins as …
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