Google is challenging the notion that you can’t game on a Chromebook with… cloud gaming Chromebooks.
We’ve known how to game on a Chromebook for months now, and Google and its partners (Acer, Asus, and Lenovo) have adopted the same approach for Chromebooks: adopt cloud gaming from major providers like Microsoft’s Xbox cloud gaming service, Amazon’s Luna, and the GeForce Now service from Nvidia. What Google is doing, though, is taking modern gaming-class hardware – Core i7 chips from Intel, plus 144Hz+ 1440p displays – and combining them together in premium cloud gaming Chromebooks. On a PC, this approach might cost well over £1,000. In a Chromebook, Google executives say