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Valve Confirms Steam Controller Release Date, $99 Price Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 27 April 2026 at 01:33 PM EDT. 91 Comments Valve just announced that their new Steam Controller will be going on sale on 4 May. …
Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 28 April 2026 at 08:22 PM EDT. 11 Comments Back in 2018, Valve open-sourced their Steam networking sockets library as a basic network transport layer for games. …
Valve's Steam Controller Now Shipping Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 4 May 2026 at 01:15 PM EDT. 14 Comments For those eager to get their hands on Valve's new Steam Controller, the gaming controller is now shipping. …
… That's not to say though that RDNA 4m is necessarily for Valve, but rather Valve engineers typically have been responsible for the ACO compiler changes for that compiler they came up with along with all of their other RADV efforts. …
… If you aren't using KDE Plasma as your desktop, the other option is to use newer versions of Valve's Gamescope compositor. …
Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 19 April 2026 at 09:25 AM EDT. …
AMD & Valve Deliver Better Kaveri / Kabini APU Experience With Upcoming Linux 7.1 Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 5 April 2026 at 09:31 AM EDT. …
… Now those associated with Valve are set to dominate the Mesa Git activity logs. Presumably at Valve he will be doing much of the same work on Mesa and the open-source AMD graphics driver code alongside Samuel Pitoiset , Timur Kristóf , and the other Valve employees and contractors. …
Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 13 May 2026 at 08:49 PM EDT. …
… SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam Valve's Steam Controller Now Shipping Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare Valve Updates G…