Latest articles by Andy Edser
Intel's new top-end Core Ultra Series 3 mobile chips promise up to 77% faster iGPU gaming performance than Lunar Lake, and come with a whole host of friends
CES 2026 Strap in, it's about to get technical.
HyperX gaming monitors are a thing now, and HP says this 34-inch QD-OLED model has next-gen V-Stripe tech to banish text fringing
CES 2026 Begone, foul fuzz.
HP has smushed together the HyperX and Omen brands to create its new HyperX Omen range of gaming laptops, and I'm over here playing spot the difference
CES 2026 All in a name, as they say.
MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently
CES 2026 Still, if you're going all in on an RTX 5090, why not turn everything up to 11?
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming microphone of 2025
Gear of the year Join me for a look back at the microphone movers of 2025.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headset of 2025
Gear of the year It's been a helluva year for gaming headsets, but which of our three contenders will take the ultimate prize?
The Fractal Design Scape feels like a gaming headset from the future, which makes it the best thing I've tested in 2035. I mean, this year
Gear of the Year I've seen the light, and I don't want to go back.
PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby
Hard times Money, money, money.
Avowed didn't rewrite the RPG rulebook in 2025, but it still gave me some of my biggest gaming 'wow' moments of the year
🏆 Call me shallow if you must. In fact, I encourage it.
Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the 'confidential computing capabilities' of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report
News GPU, where are you?
The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I'm so here for it
News Let's get ready tooooooo... spreadsheet.
This Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses detector helpfully lights up the word 'glasshole' when the specs are nearby, just so we're all aware of exactly what we're dealing with
News Also, nice hat.
'I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit': Sam Altman calls for a 'code red' alert at OpenAI as Google's Gemini 3 gives it a scare
News I assume it was followed by a siren, an exploding command console, and Klingons off the starboard bow.
This sneaky malware variant has been caught using fake Windows Update screens to trick users into installing info-stealing software themselves
News The PC equivalent of holding the door open for the burglar on their way in.
Google needs to double its AI serving capacity 'every six months' and scale 'the next 1000x in 4-5 years' according to an internal presentation
News Seems totally achievable, good luck with that.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Limited Edition Xbox controllers are made for goofy goobers and you can't convince me otherwise
News Plus there's an Elite version for... well, I'm not sure who.
'I like boring, and boring to me is no super exciting new features that will break machines for millions of people around the world' says Linux creator Linus Torvalds
News A lovely shade of beige.
A vital rare earth element you've probably never heard of has surged in price by nearly 1,500% this year and it's essential for global chip manufacturing
News A very rare earth, apparently.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming mouse
Rodents My guide to buying the right gaming mouse for you.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming headset
Headgear If you're eyeing up potential headset purchases, you've come to the right place.
Microsoft's updated anti-cheating measures go far beyond Secure Boot, including 'Remote Attestation' for online system verification
News Cheaters never prosper. I mean, they do, but they shouldn't.
I don't know how I missed this playable Windows 95-era 3D Maze screensaver, but it's making me feel like I'm tripping out, man
News The endless walls of my perception, they're melting as we speak.
