Hardware

Steam Controller demand is so high that new reservations won't be fulfilled until 2027

The DualSense can still drift, but Sony may be exploring magnetic tech for shape-shifting buttons in whatever comes next

DualSense PC gamers have been vindicated at last, as haptic support is finally here—though no thanks to Sony

Forza Horizon 6 is better when you're in the driving seat, so I've picked out some of our best racing wheels, pedals, and chairs to put you in pole position

'Basically Lego for gamers': This new game controller has modular buttons, sticks, grips, and even vibration motors

Save up to $600 on a complete Corsair Build with next-gen GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD

The Steam Controller's main competition isn't from Microsoft or Sony: It's from third-party vendors

You need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock

Don't buy an Xbox controller when you can get one with drift-free TMR sticks, 8x the polling rate, and a charging stand for less at Amazon

Noctua's AIO liquid cooler is here but hooo boy is it expensive

Hyte's new prototype AIO cooler looks to pack funky RGB and transparent shrouds into an affordable package

Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one

Cooler Master is playing around with a 2000 W CPU and GPU cooling solution with four huge 180 mm fans

While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler

Tryx claims 'world's first holographic liquid cooler' at Computex but I doubt it was much of a contest

Noctua's pumpless liquid cooler prototype is now 'neck and neck' with a normal AIO: successfully cools Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 230 W

Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets

Summer's nearly here, so it's time to clean your gaming PC and banish soaring temperatures for another year

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

The gaming headset with one of the best microphones in the biz is now only $130

These 'lovely earbuds for almost anything' are down to their lowest price ever on Amazon

Amazon Prime Day gaming headset deals

For just $40, this Glorious budget gaming headset deal is the best I can find on Amazon

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7X Wireless Gen 2 review

Sony Inzone H6 Air review

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming headset

I've just finished reviewing this great office chair and—oh, hey look, there's $50 knocked off the price right now

Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review

Secretlab's new Atlas chair is cheaper, slimmer than the Titan Evo and I've been sitting comfortably in it for the past couple days

Secretlab's CEO is getting tough on copycat chairs and doesn't feel pressure to adopt AI: 'If we were owned by outside investors, you can bet that AI will be somehow jammed down our throats'

I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming

Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'

From Ultramarines to Batman and Minecraft creepers, there's a dazzling selection of designs for our best gaming chair pick on discount in Secretlab's mega sale

Flexispot C7 Morpher chair review

Secretlab has a whole heaping of collaboration deals on, making it the best way to get our favorite gaming chair and desk

Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

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

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

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

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

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

Melgeek Real81 review

I was genuinely surprised by the discounted price of Logitech's Genshin Impact-themed TKL gaming keyboard, thanks to a 56% price cut at Amazon

Thanks to a substantial 27% discount, this ROG Falchion gaming keyboard is a seriously tempting deal for anyone aiming for an all-white theme

MSI's new Strike Alloy has almost every gaming keyboard buzzword thrown at it, with TMR, 8k, and rapid trigger, and you can even use it underwater

The best quiet gaming keyboard we've tried is getting a smaller TKL version this year

We got eyes on Ducky's sleek Year of the Horse gaming keyboard, and I can say I like it more than its last horse one

Cherry attempts to change my mind about wireless gaming keyboards with world's first Ultra-Wideband button basher

Gigabyte's new gaming mouse and keyboard look great and all, but can we get a round of applause for its web software

Wooting's big knob is much more than a volume dial, set to arrive later this year for 80 HE

Logitech G305 X Superlight review

Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly

MSI Versa 300 Wireless 8K review

ProtoArc EM25 ergonomic mouse review

This custom fingertip mouse is one of the weirdest I've seen and now you can build one for yourself, though you'll need to sacrifice another mouse first

Logitech's new mouse comes with a little bag to carry it around in. Oh, and it's foldable too

Keychron told us its new gaming mouse switches will have haptics like the Superstrike, but I'll still have to feel them for myself to be convinced

At just 36 g, the Corsair Sabre V2 Pro is our favourite lightweight gaming mouse, and it's now at its best price

Keychron's on-the-fly optical/Hall effect mouse switch is taking on Logitech over one of the few things people didn't like about the SuperStrike

'Bananas, isn't it?': This monitor runs at 5K and 180 Hz for only $700 right now

Amazon Prime Day gaming monitor deals

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor

At $200 on sale, this Acer ultrawide gaming monitor is the cheapest I'd actually recommend buying

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

We gave this 1440p gaming monitor a 90% two months ago and it's already received a huge $120 price cut

Viewsonic unveils the world's first 24-inch 4K gaming monitor for super crispy visuals in a smaller form factor

After gaming on pro-level panels I can tell you now that 360 Hz is the sweet spot for gaming monitors

Alienware AW2525HM 320 Hz gaming monitor review

Best gaming laptops 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favorites

Amazon Prime Day gaming laptop deals

Ready your gaming battlestation with the perfect loadout and save big with these Corsair Vengeance bundles

Five things I want you to think about before you buy your first gaming laptop

Valve's latest SteamOS is out with 'initial support for upcoming Steam Machine hardware'

Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC

Behold, the return of the affordable 32 GB gaming laptop deal—which bodes well for Prime Day next week

Best deals on gaming laptops

Cheap graphics card deals this week

Amazon Prime Day graphics card deals

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card

Valve upgrades AMD's 9070 XT GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, finally allowing the credit it deserves

Intel's first chip with Nvidia graphics is coming in early 2028 according to the latest leak and it could mark a new era for handheld PC gaming

Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2x6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector

The latest market data shows GPU shipments are holding up for now but AMD isn't making any inroads on Nvidia

Linux driver for vintage AMD GPUs gets an update with a helping hand from Copilot AI, keeping old hardware alive and kicking

2026 is shaping up to be one of the worst years ever for new graphics cards as Nvidia's RTX 50 Super Series refresh rumoured to be pushed out to 2027

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Grab 32 GB of Corsair DDR5-6000 RAM for $288 when bundled with this Gigabyte X870 AM5 motherboard—a decent saving when similar kits are $400+

SK hynix claims it will be able to triple its memory chip output by 2034, roughly 10 years sooner than first projected

'The thing that gives me hope is there is an enormous amount of capacity being built' - AMD's head of Ryzen and Radeon is pinning hopes of an end to the memory crisis on a supply ramp into 2028

Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42

Cooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory

This Corsair RAM features 'light-emitting micro-drilling technology' and looks gorgeous but it's 2026 so of course it costs $600 for 32 GB

Team Group CEO warns that DRAM and SSD prices will still rise: 'If you need memory, we recommend purchasing it as soon as possible'

Two memory manufacturers join Samsung in the $1 trillion market cap club, global DRAM revenue is nearing $100,000,000,000, and I'm here with my head in my hands

Samsung has swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal, so the memory machine rumbles on

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The best PC upgrade I did this year was switching everything to Wi-Fi 7 and now you can too with these Cyber Monday deals

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'

Routers don't grab headlines like graphics cards but having a good one in your home can make a world of difference to your digital life

Phanteks XT View Matrix case review

Havn is making a smaller, lighter version of the excellent HS 420, with a few convenient upgrades too

Phanteks shows off PC case that bucks the fish tank trend in favour of greater thermal efficiency and giving your GPU its own little room

We got our eyes and noses on a new PC case with a magnetic essential oils diffuser to make your gaming den smell less like a gaming den

Be Quiet! unveils huge new PC case designed for 'maximum performance' with room for up to seven HDDs

Montech's new shuttered PC case is so odd, I can't decide whether I'm missing the sheer brilliance of it or if it really is totally pointless

Corsair's slightly-outrageous Warthog PC case is the thing I'd most like to take home from Computex 2026, and I'm not ashamed to say it

This skyscraper-shaped custom PC at Computex has a food stall out the front selling 'Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice' and a rock climber free soloing up the side

Gigabyte has shown off a microATX PC case with a 16-inch built-in LCD screen, which I assume would give you the most unique rig at the next LAN party