{"id":750564,"date":"2013-05-09T15:06:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=643820"},"modified":"2013-05-09T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:06:38","slug":"this-offline-video-game-with-xbox-controller-support-shows-chrome-os-isnt-just-a-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750564","title":{"rendered":"This offline video game with Xbox controller support shows Chrome OS isn\u2019t \u201cjust a browser\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

I expect we’ll hear much more about Chrome OS apps next week at the Google I\/O developer event. Some developers aren’t waiting to move forward with apps for Chrome OS, however, and that’s a good thing. Although it had humble beginnings as a browser-based interface on a prototype laptop in 2010, Google’s Chrome OS is poised to expand beyond the browser with true apps of its own.<\/p>

Take this game in the Chrome Web Store, for example. It’s called Cracking Sands Racing<\/a> and comes from Polarbit, which has already released the game for iOS<\/a> and Android<\/a>. That tells me it’s basically a port of the mobile version. Plus the 533 MB download and offline support verify this is an app; not a game that’s being powered by the cloud. Here’s a video of the gameplay, which is exactly what the game looks like on my Pixel:<\/p>