Valve will start selling the new Steam Controller on May 4, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. PT for $99 in the US. The pad adds dual trackpads, TMR magnetic thumbsticks, four rear grip buttons, Grip Sense gyro aiming, and a magnetic wireless charging puck.
A co-statement dated April 29 says Palit now handles GALAX operations and customer support. Existing owners are being directed to Palit’s RMA channels while the previous GALAX structure has been shut down.
A new leak reported by Tom's Hardware says Intel killed discrete Xe3P "Celestial" gaming GPUs long ago, leaving Battlemage as the latest Arc gaming card and pushing any Druid replacement no earlier than late 2027. Xe3P still appears on data-center and integrated graphics plans, but not on the gaming dGPU many PC players expected.
An early review leak pegs Valve's next Steam Controller at $99 and says the pad ships without an audio jack or swappable battery. Reddit's biggest reaction was not the trackpads but the price, with many users comparing it straight to other premium controllers.
The top r/Games hardware post this cycle is not about raw frame generation but about memory pressure. Coverage of NVIDIA’s latest Neural Texture Compression demo describes a scene dropping from roughly 6.5GB of VRAM to 970MB at similar image quality, while NVIDIA’s own developer material frames the tech as a practical way to compress richer textures without the usual storage and memory penalties.
A popular r/pcgaming thread spotlights PCWorld’s report citing Jon Peddie Research data: Nvidia reportedly controls over 90% of discrete PC graphics cards, while AMD falls below 10%.
A high-signal r/pcgaming post highlights Valve’s acknowledgment that some GPU VRAM values were reported incorrectly in Steam Hardware Survey data, with a reporting-method update now in place.
A high-signal r/gamernews post links to Valve’s Steam Hardware FAQ update, where Valve keeps a first-half 2026 launch target for Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame but postpones concrete pricing and dates amid memory and storage shortages.