Steam support for Chromebooks could surface this week

After months and months and even more months of waiting, it appears that we may finally get our first look at native Steam gaming on Chrome OS in the very near future. Affectionately known as proje…

Why ‘Borealis’ (Steam gaming for Chromebooks) may still arrive in 2021

Borealis, the official Steam gaming support in Chromebooks, has been in development for at least a year now (and likely much longer). Let’s go over some new revelations we’ve found and then t…

CrossOver 21 is now available: how to use it to run Windows apps on your Chromebook

It’s been a while since we’ve touched on CrossOver. It’s a commercial product from CodeWeavers, the developers behind Wine and Proton, which allows Windows applications and games to run natively on…

Exclusive: how to enable Vulkan in Crostini on your Chromebook right now

The time has come: welcome to our exclusive guide on how you can use Vulkan in Crostini! This unlocks the full gaming power of Chromebooks by allowing more modern games to work. More importantly, i…

More Details on the AMD dGPU-powered Chromebook Arise

A few of our tech-savvy readers (thanks @Cooe, @Locuza_, and others!) have written in to let us know about a big detail we missed when first talked about the AMD dGPU Chromebook in the works: the V…

ARM and NVIDIA Gaming Chromebooks are in the works

One day soon we will see serious Arm gaming Chromebooks. With realistic ray-traced graphics. Rendered on a NVIDIA graphics card. Pinch me, I must be dreaming! A few months ago, our very own Gabriel…