Google said Steam had arrived on Chromebooks, but now says itscoming soon

Google announced that some ChromeOS users would finally be able to start testing Steam during its Google for Games Developer Summit but later revised that message to say that the alpha would be “coming soon.”

During the keynote, Google’s product director for games, Greg Hartell, announced that “the Steam alpha just launched” for select Chromebooks and pointed viewers to the Chromebook Community Forum for more information. At the time, the promised post didn’t seem to be there yet, but it was later added with a slightly revised message:

Hello Chromebook Community,

As you may have already heard, our team is working with Valve to bring Steam to Chrome OS. We are very excited to share that we’ll be landing an early, alpha-quality version...

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