Chromebooks are simple productivity machines, or, as one Apple executive once put it, "cheap testing tools." At least, that was the case a few years ago, before Google made it possible to download ...

ChromeOS-based laptops are known to be endurance champs, but Google is out to change that image with help from game-maker Valve. In 2022, the two released an alpha version of Valve's Steam game store ...

Steam on Chrome OS support began as a beta test in early 2022. After graduating to a beta later that year, progress slowed down. Now users are being informed that the beta is slated to end as 2026 ...

Google has been trying to make the case for years that Chromebooks are more than just web browsers with keyboards and screens. And in 2022 the company introduced a new category of Chromebooks built ...

The popular gaming platform Steam is being discontinued on Chromebooks. Some of those who currently utilize Steam on Google Chromebooks have discovered that they only have a few months remaining to ...

TL;DR: Google has announced the end of Steam support in ChromeOS come January 1, 2026. This marks the end of the Steam for Chromebook Beta which was launched in 2022, but never matured from beta ...

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Chromebooks have never quite been full-blown gaming machines, but they’ve gotten more gaming-capable in recent years. Some Chromebooks are good enough to handle cloud gaming, but more importantly, ...