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Valve Confirms Steam Controller Release Date as May 4, Priced at $99 USD

Valve today announced the official release date and pricing for its new Steam Controller. The device is scheduled to go on sale on May 4. According to Valve, US pricing for the controller will be $99 ...

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Mesa RADV Driver Integrates AMD Trusted Memory Zone for Protected Memory Support

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver, RADV, recently gained protected memory support. This new capability, implemented by AMD engineers, leverages AMD's Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) technology. The integration ...

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Goverlay Nightly Fixes File Loss in fgmod, Refines Flatpak Config Handling

The Goverlay project, an overlay utility for Linux, has received recent updates to its nightly build. A critical fix was implemented to prevent potential file loss when using its fgmod component. As n...

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Xemu Dev Build Forces NVIDIA Native Present Method, Enhances Vulkan NV2A

The latest development build for the Xemu Xbox emulator introduces several updates aimed at improving graphics compatibility and stability. A notable change forces NVIDIA's native present method, cont...

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PCSX2 v2.7.298 Fixes Incorrect Display Launch for Qt UI

PCSX2, the PlayStation 2 emulator, recently released version 2.7.298. This update specifically addresses a bug affecting how games launch on multi-monitor setups. The issue prevented games from appear...

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Linux 7.1-rc1 Released with New NTFS Driver and FRED by Default

Linux 7.1-rc1 was released today, April 27, 2026, marking the conclusion of the merge window for the upcoming kernel version. This release introduces a new NTFS driver and enables FRED (Flexible Retur...

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D7VK v1.8 Extends Legacy Direct3D Support to D3D3 Atop Vulkan API

D7VK v1.8 was released today, further advancing its efforts to translate legacy Microsoft Direct3D APIs to the modern Vulkan graphics API. This new version extends support, which originally began with...

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Steam Deck Gains 14 New Verified/Playable Titles Including Pragmata and Opus: Prism Peak

Between April 11 and April 18, 2026, the Steam Deck's compatible game library expanded with 14 new titles rated as Verified or Playable. This includes the new Capcom release, Pragmata, which was "well...

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Ollama v0.21.1 Adds Kimi CLI, Enhances MLX Runner Performance and Features

Ollama released version 0.21.1 recently, introducing the Kimi CLI for local AI model execution. Users can now launch the Kimi CLI via Ollama, which "excels at long horizon agentic execution tasks thro...

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LACT 0.9 Released with NVIDIA Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor for Linux

LACT, an open-source graphical utility designed for managing graphics cards across AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel hardware on Linux, released version 0.9 this weekend. This update introduces notable user inte...

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Framework Laptop 13 Pro: First Ubuntu Certified Model with Intel Core Ultra S3

Framework announced its new Laptop 13 Pro on April 21, 2026, featuring a "ground-up redesign" to address previous hardware characteristics like hinge durability, speaker quality, and battery life. Thi...

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MangoHud v0.8.3 Addresses AMDGPU, Vulkan Swapchain, and Zink Vsync Issues

MangoHud v0.8.3 has been released today, bringing a series of bug fixes and stability improvements to the open-source overlay. This update specifically targets issues with AMDGPU metrics reporting, en...

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute Raccoon' Released with Wayland-Only Desktop, Linux 7.0

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" has been officially released today, April 24, 2026. This long-term support release marks a significant architectural shift as "the first LTS in Ubuntu's history to ...

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Steam Saw 60 New Native Linux Game Releases Last Week, 11.3% of Total

Between April 15 and April 22, 2026, Boiling Steam reported that 60 new games with native Linux builds were released on Steam. This figure represents approximately 11.3% of the 533 total titles launch...

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PCSX2 v2.7.284 Adds Software Shader-Based Anisotropic Filtering

PCSX2, the PlayStation 2 emulator, recently released version 2.7.284. This update introduces software-based anisotropic filtering (AF) for its GS/Hardware rendering path. The new feature, implemented ...

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