Hardware

Flawed potential

Steam Controller re-review: A fresh look at Valve's flawed but influential 10-year-old controller

News

Open source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator

Switch pad

How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC

News

Arc Raiders' overpowered aim assist gets stronger at high frame rates, and I feel like I'm cheating when I use it

Gear of the Year

I enjoy touching all the hardware bits that pass through PCG's offices, but this bit of kit was all but made for my upsettingly small baby hands

News

Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games

Cyber Monday

From TMR sticks to budget picks, these are the nine best game controller deals in the Cyber Monday sales

Cyber Monday

Switching to a leverless fighting game controller is the smartest thing I ever did, and one of the best in the biz is at its lowest-ever price

Cyber Monday

This $16 controller is one of the best Cyber Monday stocking fillers, and the cheapest route to no-drift Hall effect sticks

Score: 94%

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

Cool Breeze

Best CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU

Air dried

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers

News

Noctua once again delays its fan-equipped mouse and 140 mm desk fan but we're still on for the launch of its all-in-one liquid cooler soon

CES 2026

Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler

Gear of the Year

I know I'll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn't ask for more money

News

RAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face

News

The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group

Black Friday

The Hyte Thicc Q60 is the most ridiculous liquid cooler I've ever used and it's now over half off for Black Friday

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Which headset suits your game style?

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Audiophile

Sennheiser HD 550 review

Score: 79%

Sony Inzone H9 II gaming headset review

Budding gamers

The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears

Volume up

Best PC speakers in 2026: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers

Untethered

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself

Quality cans

Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

CES 2026

Asus has tweaked the twangers out of Hifiman's planar magnetic drivers in its new audiophile-grade gaming headset, and it shows

CES 2026

HyperX is showing off a gaming headset prototype packed with brain wave monitoring EEG tech to better get your head in the game

Score: 82%

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

News

The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance

Take a seat

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

Take a seat

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

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As an awkward sitter, you may need a more dynamic ergonomic chair

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Score: 80%

AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

CES 2026

'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one

Cyber Week

Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

Cyber Week

Want a perfect perch but without the gaming bling? This Flexispot ErgoX office chair is the cheapest it's ever been, now just $250

Top Desks

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Score: 86%

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

Swanky surface

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

Luxurious

Grovemade desk review

Score: 85%

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Score: 82%

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

News

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

ALL THE SPACE

Ikea Utespelare desk review

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These Logitech keyboards provide the right feel for any player

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Deal

Any gaming setup will look infinitely posher when you slap this classy wood-trimmed Keychron keyboard on your desk

News

Razer launches Synapse Web for browser-based peripheral management, but it's very limited and buggy right now in beta

Score: 75%

Asus ROG Azoth 96 HE review

Click Clack

Best mechanical keyboards in 2026: The clacky boards I'd buy in a heartbeat

Freedom

Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2026: my top picks for cable-free typing delights

Quick digits

Best Hall effect keyboards in 2026: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming

Score: 87%

QPAD Flux 65 Model 5 review

Keyed in

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: the fastest, smoothest and loveliest boards I've tested

5 things you can do with the Area-51's Thunderbolt 5 port

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Deals

I've found a cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop you'll actually want to buy, an increasingly rare thing in these uncertain times

Deals

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

A call for calm

Intel's new high-end mobile chip is an impressive game-cruncher, but I don't think proper gaming laptops should worry just yet

News

Lenovo might bring AMD's monster Strix Halo iGPU and Nvidia's N1X to gaming laptops soon if this recent listing is anything to go by

News

Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU

Full charge

I ditched my laptop charger for a day of travel, work and gaming with Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip and still had 18% battery life left when I got home

Score: 80%

MSI Vector A18 HX review

The evolution of Alienware: how the Area-51 changed the game

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News

Logitech has raised the price of its already-too-expensive G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad

Score: 79%

Pulsar X2 CrazyLight Medium review

News

Be Quiet! enters the gaming mouse market with a pair of kinda plain-looking competitive rodents

Slick

Best mouse pads for gaming in 2026: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on

Pinpoint

Best gaming mouse in 2026: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks

CES 2026

Corsair's latest mouse pad is just begging to have my greasy fingers all over it

CES 2026

Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight

Gear of the Year

2025 is the year I discovered I love charging docks, and it's all because of one surprisingly reasonably priced gaming mouse

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025

Expansive

Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2026: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers

deal

Ultrawide, curved and a whopping 45 inches: This huge 1440p monitor has dropped to its lowest ever price

Deals

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Deal

With DRAM and SSDs now all stupidly expensive, upgrade your gaming setup with this $260 ultra-curved, ultrawide monitor instead

Deal

It's hard to say no to this 4K 144 Hz gaming monitor deal for just $180

News

Asus' new 4K dual-mode gaming monitors include even faster 1080p modes all the way up to 480 Hz

Score: 88%

XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser projector review

How Refreshing

Best high refresh rate gaming monitor in 2026: These are the speedy panels I'd snap up

Bendy

Best curved monitors for gaming in 2026: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of

Deal

RX 9070 XT gaming PCs were already good value, but they're even better now that well-priced RTX 5070 Ti machines are rare

deals

Best cheap gaming PC deals

Deal

I've found you seven gaming PCs, all packing 32 GB of DDR5 memory and defiantly priced against the growing RAMpocalypse

Teeny Peecees

Best mini PCs in 2026: The compact computers I love the most

Perfect PC

Best gaming PCs in 2026: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today

DIY

Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations

News

PC shipments grew in 2025 but the market 'will be far different in 12 months given how quickly the memory situation is evolving'

News

'Um, as a favor, if you buy a new one, please sell your gaming PC to our company' says Tokyo-based computer store as it offers 'pretty high prices'

Deal

In the midst of climbing prices, surprisingly it's the RX 9070 that's stepping up to the plate with this Ryzen X3D gaming PC for $250 off

News

This Frankenstein-ed RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it has just set a world record benchmark score and it's the most cursed-looking graphics card I've ever seen

Deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

News

Nvidia might be doing what was once unthinkable: asking Intel to make some of its future AI chips

News

Zotac claims the 'very survival of graphics card manufacturers' is at risk thanks to the state of the market right now

Cat-like

Fast, feisty, fabulous: I've benchmarked Intel's new Panther Lake processor and it's dragging gaming laptop performance out of integrated graphics

News

Nvidia reportedly cancels partner incentive scheme to sell cards at MSRP, says YouTuber Der8auer, signalling hard times ahead for GPU prices

News

Redditor ordered an RTX 5080 from Amazon Prime and claims a near-identical RTX 5060 Ti with the stickers swapped was sent out

News

If you've been saving up to buy a new 16 GB graphics card, then I have bad news for you: It's already a bloodbath out there and it's getting worse every week

News

Behold the future of PC gaming: Upscaled 77p potatovision—and it's not quite as awful as you imagine

Handhelds when?

Panther Lake is simply begging to be stuffed inside a benchmark-crushing gaming handheld, but the price tag is likely to be brutal

News

Nintendo president is 'carefully considering the situation' around memory prices as research firm predicts Switch 2 price hike

News

Here comes an AMD Ryzen AI 400-powered handheld PC that's super cute, OLED and has an 80 Wh battery

Steam On

The best Steam Deck games

Decked out

Best Steam Deck accessories in 2026: These are the add-ons that I'd let keep my handheld company on its travels

Portable PC

Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

CES 2026

We might have a new contender for the best handheld gaming PC, because Lenovo's just announced a SteamOS version of its mega Legion Go 2

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2025

News

Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen

Light it up!

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

Cyber Monday

This smart lamp changed my gaming setup for the better and it's finally below $100 this Cyber Monday, just don't pick the wrong model

Win or Bin?

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

Prime Day

I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

Prime Day

I may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal

As if I needed any more RGB lights, this Govee x Evangelion light kit we gave a 91% is still $60 off for Cyber Monday

Deal

I find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday

Reactive

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Sync'd

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Going slow

RAMpocalypse be damned, I've tested a range of games to see if slow DDR5 will ruin my gaming experience

News

Memory chip specialist SK Hynix reports record-breaking profits but doesn't have a word to say about almost anything apart from AI

News

New report claims Samsung, SK Hynix and Sandisk are all planning to double the price of NAND memory chips this year

News

ReRAM has reentered the chat, with high-profile manufacturing deal positioning it as the 'successor to flash memory'

News

Because of AI 'memory's become sexy again'. That's what Micron told us as the alarm bells for the RAMpocalypse began ringing in 2024, but we just didn't listen

News

Spraying kerosene over the DRAM inferno, US commerce secretary suggests memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased US production

News

Micron signs a deal to acquire a chip foundry in Taiwan for $1.8 billion, though it won't make a dent in the memory supply crisis until 2027 at the earliest

Dynamic

Best RAM for gaming in 2026: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you

News

To meet 'tremendous and humongous demand' from AI customers, SK Hynix accelerates 2027 fab plans by three months, with an even fresher fab beginning wafer production next month

News

Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'

News

A stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner

Best Mobo

Best gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today

Mini marvels

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2026: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested

News

Update your MyAsus software now because there's a fix for a nasty hack that could easily ruin your day

News

It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

News

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

News

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'

Score: 80%

MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition review