Hardware

Valve explains clever shortcut for the Steam Controller's Grip Sense, and I'm starting to think it's a killer feature

Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the '90s

Lick your way to victory with the Mouth Pad, a Bluetooth device that lets you control your PC with just your tongue

Best PC racing wheels in 2026: my favorite direct drive and budget steering wheels for sim racing

This DIY 'OpenPuck' project allows the Steam Controller to emulate Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation controllers, but no wireless charging for you

A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill

Forza Horizon 6 works best with a racing wheel, so I've found nine Amazon Prime Day deals to put you in pole position

The best high-end PC controllers used to cost a king's ransom, now it's a little more affordable thanks to Amazon Prime Day

This discounted controller puts the standard Xbox pad to shame for just $64 as Amazon Prime Day wraps up

Noctua NL-LC1 liquid cooler review

Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'

Cooler Master V8 Ace 3DHP review

Arctic Freezer 36-S review

Best PC fans in 2026: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

Chill out your toasty gaming PC and beat the heat with these 12 deals on fans, liquid coolers, cases, and more from just $5

Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling

Be Quiet Dark Rock 6 and Dark Rock Pro 6 review

Rein the heat with three of the best AIO CPU coolers around, now all with massive discounts thanks to Prime Day

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

Razer's BlackShark V3 is the best gaming headset right now and with almost $50 off, it's the only one I'd recommend

PowerA LucidSound LS500/P review

'A+, would have my soul leave my body again': One of my favorite wireless gaming headsets is now at its lowest ever price

Glorious GHS InfinitePlay review

At 34% off, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro still proves hot swappable batteries are a game changer for wireless headsets

The best gaming headset out there right now has just received a tidy $19 discount at Best Buy

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

This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested loads of gaming chairs and these are my top picks

I've only seen this excellent budget gaming chair as cheap as this once before... and that was years ago

Secretlab Atlas review

LiberNovo Omni Pro chair review

Upgrade your gaming setup on the cheap with possibly the best Prime Day gaming chair deal

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'

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

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more

Asus ROG Azoth Extreme Edition 20 review

Turtle Beach Command Series KB7 TKL gaming keyboard review

Logitech G316 X (tactile) gaming keyboard review

With a huge 31% Prime Day discount, this Asus ROG gaming keyboard is a great deal for anyone wanting a fast and feature-rich button basher

This gaming keyboard is a class act, and it's waiting for you this Prime Day with its top hat askew and its monocle popped

Our pick for the best budget keyboard packs in magnetic switches and an 8K polling rate for only $32 this Prime Day

This lubed-up optical gaming keyboard has been my daily driver for two years, and it beats out boards three times its price at just $80

Melgeek Real81 review

Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future

It's time to ditch that dull gaming mouse and pick up a scorching-hot squeaker for less, with one of these nine options starting at just $22

Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory

Mchose K7 V2 Ultra+ review

Keychron's gaming mouse firmware is going open-source, while the company critiques 'firmware you can't read, can't audit, can't change'

We now have independent testing confirming Razer's latest innovative mouse sensor tech does what it says it does

Hot swappable mouse batteries might be the hot new trend as it looks like Wallhack's first ever mouse will have them

Glass mouse pads haven't won me over but gamer sleeves are a different story

We might see a new Logitech Superstrike this September, just a few months after the world's first proper analogue mouse launched

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

MSI unveils its first 4K OLED monitor using a promising inkjet-printed panel, and it's not made by Samsung or LG

Take the plunge into 4K gaming with this curved, 32-inch OLED for only $630

The best mini-LED 1440p gaming monitor this year has dropped to its lowest price with $80 off

Best OLED gaming monitors in 2026: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays

Alienware 34 AW3426DW gaming monitor review

The day has finally come where you can get OLED gaming monitors for $300, and this Samsung Odyssey is my pick

Asus ROG Strix OLED XG32UQWMS gaming monitor review

LG UltraGear Evo GX9 39GX950B gaming monitor review

'Slightly ugly, and insanely functional': Check out this custom Steam Machine faceplate that doubles as a charging stand

Microsoft quietly deletes 32 GB RAM recommendation, which I'm sure has nothing to do with it bringing back 8 GB laptops

Looking for a combined games and study laptop? 3 reasons to buy the Alienware 15

Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty

Best deals on gaming laptops

MacBook Neo outperforms Dell XPS 13 in Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark—though I wouldn't recommend gaming on either notebook

Razer Blade 16 (2026) gaming laptop review

A round of applause please for the 250KF Plus making this RTX 5080 gaming PC deal actually reasonable

Best cheap gaming PC deals

It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else

EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'

I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump

First AMD RX 9050 8 GB review suggests RTX 3060-like performance but with some strange spec discrepancies

Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now

AMD is reportedly raising graphics card prices—it was just waiting for Nvidia to do it first

Cheap graphics card deals this week

The memory crisis keeps getting worse: Nvidia graphics card prices now rumoured to increase by as much as 30%

AMD launches the RX 9050, and it's even more entry-level than expected - update: it's $279 and limited to certain regions

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

Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis

Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight

NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix

Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a 'severe' memory supply crisis next year

RAM prices be damned, SK hynix's record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors' wild AI expectations

Consumer electronics companies were already worried about securing memory next year—now, supply is predicted to plummet by 70%

Two arrested for checking into esports hotels and stealing RAM, making off with over $2,000 in profit in just one month

Micron's low power DRAM 'consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5' in AI data center workloads, but I'm not sure that's good news

Memory chipmaker CXMT sees shares surge 466%, becomes one of China's most valuable listed companies right below Tencent

Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

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

The biggest upgrade I did last year was setting up a Wi-Fi 7 mesh network and with this huge Prime Day deal, you can too

'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'

This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen

Gaming PC cases are still being hit with the discount stick right now, so I've rounded up nine of the best deals starting at just $40

Thermaltake Retro 360 TG case review

This is by far the prettiest Phanteks PC case I've ever built in, and it's at its lowest ever price

This bright yellow PC case is a sweet little bumblebee at only $130, and I take no responsibility if you've now got a certain song stuck in your head

I'm so bored of looking at plain black hardware this Prime Day, but thankfully this head-turning PC case is only $100

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