Valve customs record suggest first large shipment of 2026 Steam Controller

Valve received tons of new shipment Steam Controller

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Brad Lynch said on X that Valve received its first “large quantity” imports of a “ Wireless PC Controller ” in the US last week. The post lines up with Valve’s already announced 2026 Steam Controller plan, but Lynch did not include the source in his post, so we found it ourselves.

One listing shows a shipment described as “WIRELESS PC CONTROLLER” for Valve Corporation from Cheng Uei Precision Ind. Co Ltd, arriving on April

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Honor WIN gaming laptop gets six-fan cooler, RTX 5070 Ti model reaches 270W

Honor reveals the world’s first gaming laptop with six fans

Honor has officially detailed its WIN gaming laptop during a China, ahead of its April 23 release. The company says the system uses a new “Dongfeng Tail-Jet” thermal design built around two centrifugal main fans and four self-developed axial auxiliary fans. As far as we can tell, this is the world’s first laptop with 6 fans, at leat for gamers.

Honor seems to agree and presents the Win series as an industry-

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Metro 2039 confirmed, official reveal set for April 16

Metro 2039 is official, 4A Games reveal scheduled for April 16

Deep Silver has now confirmed Metro 2039 and set its official reveal for April 16 . The new Metro 2039 page says it is the “next chapter of Metro” and lists the reveal time as 10 AM PDT, 7 PM CEST, 8 PM EET . Xbox has also announced a dedicated Xbox First Look: Metro 2039 broadcast for the same day.

This is an announcement date

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TCL CSOT rumored to prepare 160Hz to 640Hz 4x dual-mode gaming panel for Q3 2026

TCL CSOT plans 4x dual-mode monitor panel with up to 640Hz

TCL CSOT is reportedly preparing a new dual-mode esports monitor panel with a 4x refresh-rate switch . The claim points to a 160Hz high-resolution mode and a 640Hz low-resolution mode, with a launch window around Q3 2026.

This would go beyond the more common dual-mode approach where refresh rate typically doubles after switching to a lower resolution. A 1

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Thermal Grizzly explains €545 price tag for DeltaMate RTX 5080 waterblock, roughly 1/3 of the card’s cost

Thermal Grizzly’s DeltaMate RTX 5080 block uses glass, CNC copper, and a 900g cold plate

Thermal Grizzly has launched its second DeltaMate GPU water block, this time for the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080. The company lists the block at €549.90 on its EU storefront and $643.38 on its US storefront, with both listings marked as prices including VAT plus shipping.

What stands out is that the RTX 50

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NVIDIA says AI cuts chip design work from 80 person-months to overnight on one GPU

NVIDIA trained an internal LLM on decades of GPU design data, says Bill Dally

NVIDIA is already using AI across several parts of its internal chip design flow, according to Chief Scientist Bill Dally during a GTC conversation with Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean. Dally said the company is applying AI to design exploration, standard cell library work, bug handling, and verification, but added that fully end-to-end automated chip design is still far off.

One example Dally shared was NVIDIA’s NB-Cell tool. He

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NV-UV update brings Ada support, adds RTX 5060 Ti preset tables

NV-UV now supports RTX 40 series experimentally

NV-UV, the undervolting companion tool built around MSI Afterburner (yes, you still need to install it), has received a new v0.93 release called Cantor. We covered the project on as a GeForce RTX 50 undervolting utility, then again when it entered open alpha. The latest release shifts attention to Ada, with the developer now listing experimental support for GeForce RTX 40 series cards alongside existing RTX 50 support.

Cantor v0

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Qualcomm and NetEase expand Snapdragon X gaming support with 25 PC games

Snapdragon X PCs add 25 NetEase titles

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It looks like we did not hear much official about gaming when Snapdragon X2 Elite systems launched or when reviews went live. Honestly, I still do not see a major shift in Qualcomm’s overall gaming focus, but the company is at least claiming that software support has grown a lot compared to the early Snapdragon X1 launch period. Even so, review coverage so far suggests performance is still not where many expected it to be.

Perhaps the

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Linux 7.0 is out, bringing XFS repair features and more Intel and AMD support

Linux 7.0 released with better swapping, and new hardware support

Linux kernel 7.0 is now out. The move to version 7.0 does not mean this is some special feature-packed release. It is mostly a numbering change after the long 6.x cycle. The actual update is what you would expect from a new kernel release, filesystem work, performance tuning, and new hardware support.

One of the bigger changes is on the storage side. Linux kernel 7.0 improves how the system

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GameSir launches GameHub for Mac beta with Steam cloud save sync

Gaming on Apple just got easier

GameSir has opened early access for GameHub for Mac, its software designed to run Windows games on Apple’s desktop platform. The official site now says the beta client is available for early access.

GameHub says the Mac client supports Steam multi-account management, account interoperability, automatic sync of account data, and cloud saves. The page also highlights synced library information such as game count, account value, and total play time.

GameHub for Mac Beta is LIVE!
Finally, it'

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