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![[Claim] Stadia Pro adds five games for August – Valkyria Chronicles 4, Epistory, Grime, and more](https://chromeunboxed.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Stadia-Pro-August-2021-games.jpeg)
Update: Claim now! Much to the surprise of many (not me), Stadia keeps going strong. Pro subscribers will be receiving not three – not four, but five new games for the month of August! I have to admit, I didn’t expect this. Instead, I expected Pro games to drop down from four to two or […]
![Acer Chromebook Spin 713 (2021) review: iteration towards excellence [VIDEO]](https://chromeunboxed.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AcerChromebookSpin713Reivew2021.jpeg)
Last year, Acer made a move with their main flagship consumer Chromebook – the Spin 713 – that just flat-out worked. The 2020 Spin 713 improved on many of the things we were looking for versus the version that came before it, kept the price in-check, and made for one of my absolute favorite Chromebook […]
We’re just around the corner from the release of the new ASUS Chromebook Flip CX5400 and if I’m being frank about it, I’m pretty excited. I loved the Flip C302 and the Flip C434 was my daily driver for quite some time. Though I was let down by the price and overall package of the […]
Do you use the Turn Off the Lights extension for your Chrome browser? No? Have you even heard of it? What’s that – you think it’s an old and outdated tool that became irrelevant with the launch of Youtube’s Dark Mode? Well, so did I. When the extension’s developer reached out and asked us to […]
Last month, the Chrome OS development team decided that virtual desks weren’t being used enough by well, practically anyone, so they created what’s called Bento – or the ‘Persistent Desk Bar’. Reluctant to admit it at first, I found the persistent bar to be more useful than its out-of-sight-out-of-mind predecessor (the one you probably currently […]
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 Brangers reported on an official announcement from NVIDIA about them combining an Arm CPU with an NVIDIA RTX dGPU. This is […]
![How to fix your Chromebook with a reset and firmware revert [VIDEO]](https://chromeunboxed.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RevertChromebookFactoryResetPowerwashHowTo.jpeg)
If you’ve been following along this week, you likely have heard all about the issues with the incremental update Google pushed out to Chrome OS 91. It was a nasty bug and the only way forward was to figure out a way to get your Chromebook wiped and reverted to the previous version of Chrome […]
We’ve reviewed the ASUS CX5 (the 15-inch version) and in most ways, it is a fantastic machine. The 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake Core i3 has more speed than nearly anything we’ve every tested, the 8GB of RAM is plenty, and the 128GB of NVMe storage allows the user plenty of fast, local storage to use. […]
We did a video not long ago taking a look at the long-awaited Stadia app for Android/Google TV. While Google launched the new (and quite popular) Chromecast with Google TV back in October, Stadia’s official arrival only happened last month. It was a conundrum that didn’t help Stadia out in the least and though it […]
![Walmart’s new Onn Android TV box versus the Chromecast with Google TV [VIDEO]](https://chromeunboxed.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/onnAndroidGoogleTVChromecast.jpeg)
As soon as the new Onn Android TV box showed up at Walmart, we were immediately intrigued. Armed with the new Android TV interface that pulls heavily from the already-great Google TV UI and a price that is absolutely jaw-dropping, there was already a good chance we were going to be happy with this streaming […]
Pokemon Go Fest 2021 begins in just a few days (July 17th and 18th from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 pm local time), and if you’re into the game at all (or as much as my son is), then you’ll be happy to hear that Google has partnered with Niantic and The Pokemon Company to offer […]
During the Google for Games Developer Summit today, Google announced a few new features that those who enjoy Android games use to take their experience to the next level. With the explosive growth of Android (3B active monthly devices) and Google Play (2.5B monthly active users), the company’s digital app store has breached 140B installations […]
