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Valve has published the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey, and the big story this month is normalization. Last month’s data was a statistical mess, with Linux at an improbable 5.33%, the 16 GB RAM tier jumping wildly, and the RTX 5070 temporarily sitting at an anomalous position. April looks a...

The back half of April delivered a dense week of hardware reviews, with GPU coverage ranging from SFF-ready mid-to-high-end cards all the way up to a $4,500 liquid-metal monster. There’s also a case to be made that the most interesting product reviewed this week isn’t a GPU or a motherboard at...

For the first time since 2012, ICANN — the organization that coordinates the global domain name system — has opened a new application process for generic top-level domains. The Register reports that the application window opened Thursday, with organizations now able to apply for new gTLD...

EA’s Battlefield franchise, which has had a complicated few years on the game front, is apparently hot property in Hollywood right now. IGN reports that five major studios are in an active bidding war over the rights to a Battlefield film: Netflix, Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, and Amazon MGM...

Noctua did something genuinely useful for the enthusiast community yesterday: the Austrian cooling stalwart quietly released free 3D CAD models of its entire fan lineup, available as STEP files through the download section of its official website. No catch, no sign-up, just free downloads. The...

Tucked inside today’s GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.36 post was something a little more significant than a patch note: NVIDIA officially confirmed the existence and imminent launch of a new RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with 12GB of GDDR7. It’s a strange way to announce a new GPU SKU, but here we are in...

It’s been a long time coming, and now it’s official by the community’s own accounting: every non-VR PC game previously protected by Denuvo can now be bypassed, according to the CrackWatch community’s tracking list. The piracy scene is calling it a total victory over the DRM system that once...

After months of delays, rumors, and a leaked review that beat the official reveal to the punch, Valve has finally confirmed the date and price for its new Steam Controller: it launches on May 4, 2026, at 10:00 AM Pacific, for $99 USD. Regional pricing shakes out as £85 in the UK, €99 in Europe...

NVIDIA has released GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.36 WHQL, arriving ahead of the May 5 launch of Conan Exiles Enhanced and bringing official support for the newly announced RTX 5070 Laptop GPU 12GB configuration. Conan Exiles Enhanced is Funcom’s free Unreal Engine 5 overhaul of their...

AMD’s EXPO memory overclocking standard just got its first meaningful revision since the platform launched. The company has quietly released EXPO 1.2, an updated version of its Extended Profiles for Overclocking framework for DDR5, and while the headline features won’t fully materialize until...

Johan Pilestedt, former CEO and current creative lead at Arrowhead Game Studios, spent this weekend doing something most studio heads avoid at all costs: hosting an unfiltered AMA on r/HelldiversUnfiltered, and absorbing everything players threw at him with the community already in a sour mood...

Fallout: New Vegas is arguably the most-dissected RPG in gaming history at this point, and apparently the developers haven’t stopped picking at the seams either. In a recent interview with YouTuber TKs-Mantis, former Obsidian creative director Chris Avellone said he thinks the implementation of...

Amazon Prime Video has released the full trailer for Spider-Noir, the upcoming series starring Nicolas Cage as the 1930s noir-flavored version of the web-slinger. The show’s description from its creators leans hard into the genre conceit: per the trailer, this is “a detective story, but the...

Digital Extremes has a habit of teasing their bigger updates as “Unannounced” slots for months before anything is confirmed. On April 24, that changed: the mystery 2026 update is Jade Shadows: Constellations, a direct sequel to 2024’s Jade Shadows, and it’s coming in June as a free update on all...

If you’ve been watching SSD prices climb for the past year and quietly dreading your next build, Kioxia’s announcement this week is a small point of light. The company unveiled its BG8 Series on April 23, a mainstream client SSD family that pushes PCIe 5.0 speeds into the OEM segment — the...