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    Trends from the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

    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...
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    The FPS Review Weekender Review Roundup – May 2, 2026

    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...
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    ICANN Opens First New Generic Top-Level Domain Applications Since 2012

    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...
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    Battlefield Movie Triggers Hollywood Bidding War: Netflix, Sony, Universal, Warner, and Amazon Are All In

    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...
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    Noctua Releases Free 3D CAD Models For Its Entire Fan Lineup

    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...
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    NVIDIA Officially Launches RTX 5070 Laptop GPU 12GB Configuration, Ships June-ish

    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...
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    Denuvo Has Now Been Bypassed on Every Non-VR PC Game: Pirates Declare Total Victory

    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...
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    Valve Officially Confirms Steam Controller Launches May 4 for $99

    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...
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    NIDIA Relases GeForce Game Ready Driver WHQL For Conan Exiles Enhanced, Adds RTX 5070 Laptop 12GB Support

    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...
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    AMD Releases EXPO 1.2, Paving the Way For CUDIMM and Faster DDR5 on Zen 6

    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...
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    Helldivers 2 Lead Commits to Biweekly Updates After AMA Surfaces “Painful” Player Criticism

    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...
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    Chris Avellone Says Wild Wasteland Should Have Been a Toggle, Not a Trait

    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...
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    Spider-Noir Full Trailer Arrives: Nicolas Cage’s Gumshoe Gets the Prime Video Spotlight

    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...
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    Warframe’s Unannounced 2026 Update is Jade Shadows: Constellations, Out in June

    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...
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    Kioxia BG8 Brings PCIe 5.0 Speeds to Mainstream as Storage Prices Stay High

    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...
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    Here’s What You Need To Know To Run Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred on PC

    Diablo IV’s second major expansion, Lord of Hatred, drops this Tuesday April 28, and Blizzard has published the full PC specification breakdown ahead of launch. The good news: the floor is low and the game scales well. The less good news: if you want the full ray traced experience in 4K...
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    Windows 11 April Update KB508769 Is Triggering Bitlocker Recovery Screens and Boot Loops

    Every Patch Tuesday, there’s a moment where you hover over that “Install” button and wonder what you’re getting into. The April 2026 update for Windows 11, KB5083769, has given plenty of users good reason to hesitate. The update is causing two distinct problems: a confirmed BitLocker recovery...
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    Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Released: NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm Now Ship Natively

    It’s been a running joke among Linux users for years: to get NVIDIA CUDA or AMD ROCm working properly, clear your weekend and make peace with your terminal. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon,” released April 23, changes that. Both compute frameworks now ship natively through Ubuntu’s official...
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    Intel Q1 2026 Earnings Obliterate Expectations; Stock Posts Best Day Since 1987

    For a company that spent much of the past two years in freefall, Thursday wasn’t exactly expected. Intel’s first quarter 2026 earnings landed well after the close on April 23 and by Friday morning the stock had surged roughly 24%, its largest single-day gain since 1987. The chip giant isn’t back...
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    The FPS Review Weekender Roundup – April 25, 2026

    The launch of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition was the week’s headline event: the world’s first consumer CPU with 3D V-Cache on both compute dies arrived to widespread coverage, mixed reception on value, and a near-total absence of review samples at sites like the one you’re reading on...
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