Google actually let us know that it planned on integrating native web-chat and game-controllers last year, today however, the firm officially launched a beta of its Chrome 21 web-browser, testing-out and showing-off these new features for the first time.
Video and audio chat is made possible through the integration of WebRTC, a now Google-owned, yet also Mozilla and Opera supported, free, open standard for real-time communications in a HTML5/Javascript environment. The gamepad API, also still in testing, is built around an open W3 Consortium standard.
The latest beta also integrates enhanced support for Google Cloud Print, allowing the browser to print directly to supporting printers, Google Drive and Chrome on a mobile without any drivers.
For those who are interested in taking these new features for a test drive, you can obtain the latest beta at the following link: https://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/
