Hardware

Best Black Friday controller deals

Phantom Blade Zero unlocks this week, but you've still got time to grab one of these six PC controllers starting at just $25

Best PC controllers in 2026: I've tested lots of gamepads and these get my recommendation

You can make this DIY controller in six hours and for less than 12 bucks—but would you want to?

GameSir Nova Lite 2 review

For just $40, I'd pick 8BitDo's Ultimate 3-mode controller over an Xbox one any day of the week - especially with a charging dock

Razer Wolverine V4 Pro wireless gaming controller review

October Prime Day controller deals

Razer's competitive controller is such a good deal this Prime Day that I thought I clicked on the wrong listing

Sudokoo SK700V review

Redditor runs PC cooling loop outside of their house to keep it cool in one of the bravest yet unnecessary mods I’ve ever seen

I've never seen a laptop cooler come with its own comic strip before, but it still hasn't convinced me this noisy beast is worth $50

'No fuss, no greater meaning, only fans': Corsair shares 3D print files for its April Fools mini fan cube

Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2026: I test all the latest AIO coolers and these are my recommendations

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: I've tested loads of coolers and these are my top picks

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

Black Friday gaming headset deals 2026

The best mid-range gaming headset looks pretty in purple, and it's at its best ever price right now

Edifier G5 Max wireless gaming headset review

Asus' positively breezy Pelta gaming headset has been a lifesaver in the summer, and it's now a great deal at more than a third off

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

How to choose a wireless gaming headset for PC and console

October Prime Day gaming headset deals

With a 27% Prime Day discount, my favorite gaming headset is even more purr-fect

*Stomp, stomp, stomp*: Run for your lives, our best gaming headset pick is down to $120 this Prime Day and it's heading this way

Black Friday gaming chair deals 2026

The Razer Enki is nearly $100 off—and don't worry, you can get it in other colors besides pink

This Razer gaming chair might be the only thing to save your buns this year and it's $80 off for Prime Day

These Prime Day gaming chair deals will have your buns covered

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

Razer Chroma Soma lighting

Razer Soma Chroma gaming chair review

One chair for every posture: why the Boulies EP600 is built for people who don't sit still

Corsair's new de-gamefied gaming chair is actually much more affordable than I thought

Come shop with me for a gaming desk, as my back hates me and Prime Day deals are all too tempting

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

Glorious GMMK Eternal review

Best Black Friday gaming keyboard deals

Epomaker HE75 V2 TMR review

This sound library catalogues 100 different keyboard switches, is dangerous for my wallet, and also has… live service game mechanics?

October Prime Day gaming keyboard deals

Button mashers rejoice: Gaming keyboard deals are plentiful this Prime Day, and here are my absolute favorites

I'm here to inform you the wrist rest included with the new Logitech G Pro X2 Rapid is very good and very wobbly

Google Japan's conveyor belt keyboard is a sad reminder of the sense of humour the whole company used to have long, long ago

I made two $50 gaming keyboards fight for my average-gamer affections, and for me there's one clear winner

Our favorite ultralight gaming mouse has dropped to its lowest ever price on Amazon

Black Friday gaming mouse deals

Turtle Beach Command Series MC7 review

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

Come on Razer what are you doing? This Pokemon-themed mouse is most definitely not the one

79% of you think Razer's new gaming mouse feature counts as cheating

Looks like a lighter, carbon fibre version of the best gaming mouse I've held is on its way, but don't look at the price tag

Does Razer's 'Perfect 180' insta-turning mouse feature count as cheating? You decide

New Razer Basilisk V4 executes perfect 180 degree turns at the click of a button, all while looking like a Power Ranger's foot

Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2026

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Alienware AW3226Q OLED gaming monitor review

Cheaper OLEDs may be here even quicker than we thought as TCL CSOT says its new inkjet printing facility could be up and running as soon as this time next year

Live from this very minute, Newegg has a 200 Hz, 1440p gaming monitor going for just $129 in its early Black Friday goodie box

The best mini-LED 1440p gaming monitor we've ever tried has dropped down to $250, which is almost normal 1440p prices

Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself

In a rare instance of good news, Philips has announced the world's first 36-inch, 260 Hz gaming monitor. So that's nice

LG UltraGear Evo 52G930B Evo gaming monitor review

This is a Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS edition handheld on sale with 32 GB RAM. You hear that Sam Altman? 32 GB of the stuff

Microsoft’s own upscaler and alternative to FSR just landed on Xbox Ally X handhelds - actually uses an NPU for something useful

Acer Predator Atlas 8 (G3 Extreme) review

Steam now lets you see exactly what frame rate you should get in games using a Steam Deck

Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2026

Best deals on gaming laptops

Black Friday gaming PC deals 2025

Best cheap gaming PC deals

Experimental project beats Intel in bringing 'real Intel XeSS super resolution' to SteamOS and Proton games on Linux

Apparently now we *won’t* see a 24 GB RTX 5080, which is probably actually good for our wallets

‘AMDLSS5’ gets Nvidia’s neural rendering running on AMD graphics cards and claims 64% better performance than other mods

Trump calls his pal Jensen Huang an ‘honourable guy’ and says he ‘probably has an excuse’ for Nvidia CEO’s affair with alleged spy

AMD's next-gen GPU architecture has appeared in new Linux kernel patches as GFX13 updates roll out

Law firms lining up for a chance to bop Nvidia’s nose on behalf of its own shareholders; president Trump says FBI are sniffing around the AI company's case

Move quickly, this is a rare chance to bag a current-gen graphics card actually under its MSRP

AMD users are reporting a misfiring utility is eating SSD health by 1% a month. AMD says a fix is on the way for its GPU drivers

Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy highlights how the GPU company’s dealings are now everyone’s business

Consider this blackened plug your weekly reminder to check your RTX 50-series GPU cables

31% of you go full goth and keep your RGB lighting turned off, while a mere 7% drench your rigs in unicorn vomit

Full unicorn vomit, or stealthed-out mean machine? I want to know how much RGB festoons your gaming PC, please and thank you

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

'How can prices fall when there's nothing left?' TeamGroup CEO reckons supply-demand memory equilibrium may not happen until late 2028 at the earliest

Ray tracing memory usage could be reduced by up to 90% thanks to 'most significant' DirectX update

YouTuber buys and turns 32 GB of laptop DDR5 into desktop RAM for just $175

Elon Musk says 'robot RAM needs will exceed everything else on Earth' but only assuming we throw all the data centers into space

80% of Samsung's data center memory is already sold for 2027, meaning yet another double-digit price increase for RAM expected and more likely to come

Why PC hardware costs more than ever, why it's all AI's fault, and what's being done about it

Micron CEO says it'll be tougher to get memory in the next couple of years than it is today, and keeps saying it over and over again

Woah, here's a tech CEO saying the memory crisis won't be as bad as everyone expects

Who the hell is buying their server memory from Amazon?! Also, can I interest you in a $101,000 kit?

Don't fear the BIOS update: Asus has just fixed a local access vulnerability affecting older Intel motherboards

Gigabyte admits an oopsie with Gigabyte Control Center software leaving kernel exposed to attackers

Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%

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

Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN98 router review

TP-Link says it will start making Wi-Fi 8 routers in the US, dodging government soft ban in one easy step

Wi-Fi 8 is upon us, so here are two routers we saw at Computex that should be hitting the shops soon

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

Antec C6 Curve Air review

MSI Maestro 900R PC case review

Formula V Line Air Power G10 review

Havn HS 360 review

Cooler Master HAF II 500 review

I crammed 20 anime figures inside my gaming PC to see how it affects thermal performance. Yes, you can call me a scientist now

The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced

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