During this year’s CES showing, Samsung announced the “Gaming Hub” – its Tizen-powered game streaming platform that centralizes cloud gaming efforts from popular companies like Nvidia and Google, as well as a company called Utomik. We covered this back in January, but now, Gaming Hub is officially launching on Samsung TVs! Samsung considers Gaming Hub […]
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As Chrome OS has evolved, the gaming scene has come along with it. With game streaming, web games, Android games, and upcoming Steam game support, Chromebooks are becoming a go-to place for casual gamers. As it evolves, we're tracking along with that development and you can see it all here on Chrome Unboxed.
Google Stadia is finally launching in Mexico later this year
Just yesterday, Google held a virtual presentation where it announced several initiatives in Mexico in an effort to diversify its services portfolio in new regions. You can watch the entire thing in the video below, but one of the things that stood out to me was that Stadia has plans to launch in Mexico later […]
Continue ReadingPlus and Premium device owners can get 3 free months of Stadia Pro as a new Chromebook perk
Google is well known for its desire to bolster the creative usage of ChromeOS, and has spent a long time adding and curating different perks to encourage artists, musicians, and the like to go out and pick up a Chromebook as their next computer. In fact, the list of apps and services is getting so […]
Continue ReadingYour Stadia Pro games for July include 6 titles: Roguebook, Those Who Remain, more
For July, Stadia is giving away a total of six games to Pro subscribers – what else did you expect? Google has been killing it with the Stadia lineup over the past few years, and I remember a time when we were all impressed that it was giving away four games per month. Now, that […]
Continue ReadingAtari is bringing its timeless classics to Google Stadia as a part of its 50th Anniversary
Happy 50th anniversary, Atari! Originally established in 1972, the company has firmly placed itself into gaming history as one of the first to create a slew of fantastic and exciting games for the masses. Obviously, we’ve come a long way since the Atari 2600, and the graphics are close to real life now, but back […]
Continue ReadingNetflix is taking gaming pretty seriously, adds popular indie title Into the Breach
Since December of this past year, Netflix has more than doubled its games library. It went from 10 titles to 23, in an effort to supplement its plummeting subscriber count by offering something new and quite different than its core services. That’s not to say interactivity wasn’t a thing before for the company, as Bandersnatch […]
Continue ReadingHow to play Roblox on your Chromebook
Got a new Chromebook? Got kiddos at home? Chances are good that you have or will experience the Roblox bug in your house. The online game and creation tool has more than 37 million daily users and the wide array of game types and styles appeals to children (and adults) of all ages. Thankfully, you […]
Continue ReadingSteam Deck game performance is very good news for Chromebooks in the future [VIDEO]
In the event that you didn’t already know it, Steam games are coming to a Chromebook near you. After following the story for quite some time, we finally got official news from Google back in March that a very limited, very early roll-out of Steam on ChromeOS was actually happening. We tested it all out […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Cloud Gaming is about to get mouse and keyboard support
Cloud gaming is taking off over the past year, and with it, support for many different peripherals, games, and audiences. As a PlayStation fanboy, I never once thought I would be writing about Xbox, and certainly not as much as I have over the past year. The company is doing an incredible job with Game […]
Continue ReadingAn Nvidia GPU-enabled Chromebook is on the way for some serious Steam gaming
It was only a matter of time. With the oncoming arrival of Steam games on Chromebooks, we knew that we’d see at least a few ChromeOS devices show up not just with a gaming aesthetic, but with the internals to back up that look as well. While we felt 100% sure of this future, we’d […]
Continue ReadingSoon, you’ll be able to cloud stream Genshin Impact on Nvidia’s GeForce NOW
In a nice surprise this week, gamers are receiving an update (version 2.0.41) to Nvidia’s GeForce NOW that includes in-stream copy and paste support from the clipboard while game streaming from PCs and Macs. This means that there’s no need to enter a long, complicated password for the digital store, and you can get your […]
Continue ReadingStadia adds 9 new Click-to-Play game trials to its lineup
Click to Play Trials are a fantastic way to get into cloud gaming without really any commitment, and Stadia reigns supreme with this. They’re wonderful because they literally require no account login to spin up, and you can play enough to get a sense for whether or not you want to either subscribe to Stadia […]
Continue ReadingYou will soon be able to stream your Xbox Game Pass games directly on 2022 Samsung Smart TVs
In addition to the Xbox game streaming device that’s coming to market within the next six months – something we reported on earlier this week – Microsoft will soon let 2022 Samsung TV owners stream their Game Pass games directly through their televisions without the need for a game console! Announced on Twitter and on […]
Continue ReadingYou can now cloud stream Resident Evil Village on Capcom’s website thanks to Google Stadia
“Immersive Stream for Games” – Google’s white-label version of its cloud streaming tech that literally runs Stadia is now in full swing powering third-party website experiences. Last year, it leaked out that Google was putting way more time toward it than the consumer-facing Stadia platform, and that made a lot of people mad. It all […]
Continue ReadingGet 2 free months of Google Stadia and more by preordering the Backbone One for Android
The Backbone One for Android is a new accessory from the makers of the popular Backbone iPhone game controller. That’s right, it’s finally becoming available for Pixel and Android users as an alternative to the Razer Kishi (now called Gamevice) and the GameSir X2. Backbone has always been the controller that Android users have drooled […]
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