Got a Chromebook? Here’s a free GeForce Now subscription

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The Acer Chromebook 516 GE gaming laptop with a mouse plugged into its USB port. It’s running the game Half-Life 2.
The Acer Chromebook 516 GE was one of the first gaming-specific Chromebooks, announced 2022. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

The point of cloud gaming is it doesn’t require a powerful PC; a Chromebook should do just fine. Today, Google and Nvidia are ready to prove it by giving away a free, no-strings-attached GeForce Now subscription to every modern Chromebook owner.

You don’t have to buy a new machine, and there’s no recurring subscription. You don’t have to enter any credit card information, Google spokesperson Peter Du confirms to The Verge. As long as you’ve got a Chromebook from 2017 or newer, you can simply head over to Google’s Chromebook Perks page and hit the “Get perk” button to redeem a three-month subscription to the Priority tier of Nvidia’s GeForce Now.

If you’ve purchased a gaming Chromebook, the deal’s even sweeter: you get three months of...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23463558/chromebook-free-geforce-now-three-months

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