Android Police report that Valve is officially bringing
Steam to
Chromebooks, though it is not yet revealed when this will happen (thanks
TechRadar). Word is this will come through the Linux support in Chrome OS,
so this is something you can do already, but at this point it is not officially
supported. They also note that most Chromebook hardware will only be up to the task
of playing a limited number of games:
The next question, of course, is
just what sorts of games would even be worth playing on a Chromebook when run
directly on local hardware. Currently, most Chromebooks have extremely limited
3D acceleration performance, with only the most recent devices like Samsung's
Galaxy Chromebook possessing vaguely passable GPUs. Liu said we could expect
that to change: more powerful Chromebooks, especially AMD Chromebooks, are
coming. Liu would not explicitly confirm that any of these models would contain
discrete Radeon graphics, but told us to stay tuned.