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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Nvidia’s gaming business just had its best quarter ever.

    Too early to see whether the RTX 5060 review debacle will wake gamers up, but blackscreens and melting power cables didn’t have a huge impact — Nvidia just reported record gaming revenue of $3.76 billion in Q1 2026 (aka February thru April).

    Trump did slash Nvidia’s overall profits by restricting H20 exports to China, yet Nvidia still made another $18.7 billion in pure profit in Q1. Even though gaming is booming, Nvidia’s networking is still bigger: it grew to $5 billion in revenue this past quarter.

    Here’s how each of Nvidia’s businesses are doing from quarter to quarter to quarter.
    Here’s how each of Nvidia’s businesses are doing from quarter to quarter to quarter.
    Image: Nvidia
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    Sean Hollister
    Did Valve just reveal more authorized Steam Deck rivals are in the works?

    The Lenovo Legion Go S will be the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, whenever it finally goes on sale, but more may be coming. In January, Valve told us that Lenovo was its only partner, but today Valve published an updated FAQ stating that “We’re currently working with select partners on officially licensed Powered by SteamOS devices.” Multiple partners!

    Valve might simply mean it’s looking for more partners, but if the language was meant to be precise...

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    Sean Hollister
    A new book will celebrate graphics card box art.

    On May 31th, Lock Books will release Overclocked: An Archive of Graphics Card Box Art, designed to take you back when “manufacturers fought for dominance with the most amped-up packaging imaginable.” (We remember it well.) The $27 book features over 300 different boxes and 50 classic ads, all curated after “hours of searching through dead Google links, eBay listings and defunct forums.”

    It’s not authorized; rather, co-creator Mike McCabe tells us the book is “limited, transformative, and intended to preserve a visual history that would otherwise be lost.”

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    Sean Hollister
    ‘Fellowship Entertainment’ will be the new home of Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider.

    Technically, it’s just a rebrand of Embracer Group, which once went on a shopping spree to become the one-game-company-to-rule-them-all. After that fell through, Embracer announced it’d spin out its tabletop and indie games into independent companies Asmodee and Coffee Stain, leaving only its priciest studios and IP.

    Here are the studios that will remain with Fellowship:

    4A Games, Aspyr Media, CrazyLabs, Crystal Dynamics, Dambuster Studios, Dark Horse, Deca Games, Eidos-Montréal, Flying Wild Hog, Gunfire Games, Limited Run Games, Middle-earth Enterprises, Milestone, PLAION, Tarsier Studios, THQ Nordic, Tripwire Interactive, Vertigo Games, and Warhorse Studios amongst more than 40 other companies.

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    Sean Hollister
    DJI won’t explain why the Mavic 4 Pro went on sale in the USA.

    DJI said it wouldn’t, but it weirdly did anyhow. Now, the company won’t answer our questions about the launch at all. How did Adorama obtain a shipment of drones? Will DJI honor the preorders at B&H? Does any other retailer have a shipment? Will DJI honor its warranty on those sales?

    “We are unable to provide any additional information at this time,” DJI spokesperson Daisy Kong tells The Verge. Adorama’s pages now say “temporarily unavailable”; B&H has “suspended backorders” for now.

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    Sean Hollister
    Silicon Valley will finally have a big new computer store in nine days.

    Fry’s is gone, CompUSA is gone, Radio Shack is a zombie, but Micro Center is finally coming back. On May 30th, the store will host its grand opening at 5201 Stevens Creek Blvd in Santa Clara — and it tells me it’s bringing 4,000 GPUs to mark the occasion! (It might not put them all on sale right away.)

    If you happen to have early access, you might see me there... I’ll be dropping by on the 29th around 10AM.

    The new location is just 1.6 miles away from Central Computer, one of the last Silicon Valley PC chains left standing.
    The new location is just 1.6 miles away from Central Computer, one of the last Silicon Valley PC chains left standing.
    Image: Dave Story / Micro Center
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    Sean Hollister
    AMD’s 90-series GPUs are getting an extra trick mid-year.

    The RX 9070 and 9070 XT came with AMD’s new AI-assisted brand of upscaling, FSR4, right out of the gate — this summer, they’ll also get a new “FSR Redstone” with three extra machine learning techniques. Like Nvidia’s DLSS, Redstone will add Neural Radiance Caching, Ray Regeneration, and a new Frame Generation model that uses both temporal and spatial data to generate fake frames.

    All three should make “Full Ray Tracing” games easier to run on today’s GPUs.

    You can watch the FSR Redstone segment of AMD’s keynote here.
    You can watch the FSR Redstone segment of AMD’s keynote here.
    Image: AMD