Latest articles by Dave James
The best gaming monitors in Australia for 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors offer the perfect mix of resolution, refresh rate, and size to immerse you in your favorite gaming worlds.
The best gaming headsets in Australia for 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.
The best gaming laptops in Australia for 2026: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend
Portable powerhouses Don't compromise on power or portability with the best gaming laptops.
Lego's smart new 2x4 Smart Brick packs a custom ASIC, speaker, and synthesiser created by 'an expert team from the worlds of video gaming, computing... and more'
CES 2026 "You might hear our Smart Brick roaring like a jet plane or flushing like a toilet."
Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years
CES 2026 "A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."
Nvidia's promising '4K 240 Hz path traced gaming' with DLSS 4.5 but do you want 6x Multi Frame Gen?
CES 2026 It's convinced the 2nd gen Transformer model is good enough that you will.
Alienware promises it's not 'cutting corners on the things that matter the most' with its new entry-level gaming laptops
CES 2026 So, lots of RAM then, eh?
Alienware is taking on Razer and Asus with its new ultra slim 'covert' gaming laptop tease
CES 2026 "It's a little more covert" than your traditional Alienware... like a Dell laptop maybe.
'Quite frankly it was missing one thing': Alienware has fixed one of the biggest issues with its Area-51 gaming PC
CES 2026 The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D is part of the Alienware's CES 2026 party.
MSI's brilliant new QD-OLED screen fixes one of the biggest issues with OLED gaming monitors
CES 2026 Fixed front fringing, light absorption, and the best HDR we've seen to date.
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.
Razer's little Blade has been my ride-or-die throughout the year and is my absolute favourite gaming laptop of 2025
Gear of the Year Through thick and thin.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2025
Gear of the year A whole new generation of graphics cards dropped this year, but which can take the crown?
Well, this year's graphics card launches were a right shitshow, eh?
Launch malfunction This year saw the worst launch of any GPU generation I can remember in all my 20 years as a tech journo.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptop of 2025
Gear of the year With a whole new generation of mobile GPUs, and some sleek new designs, this has been a great year for gaming laptops. But who's the winner?
Corsair One i600 gaming PC review
Score: 83% A compact machine with high-end tech in all the right places.
OneXPlayer X1 Air handheld review
Score: 51% Is it a tablet, is it a handheld gaming PC, is it a laptop... you know where this is going.
The best gaming keyboards we've reviewed in 2025 so far
Here are the top 10 gaming keyboards we've tested ourselves.
The best gaming laptops we've reviewed in 2025 so far
Top tech These are the top 10 gaming laptops we've benchmarked and tested ourselves.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.
Cloudflare goes down, but a fix is in and ChatGPT and X are back online again
Live This is just weeks after the AWS outage.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
We should all just take a moment to appreciate Valve announcing new Steam hardware in 2025 and NOT ONCE MENTIONING AI
AI-free Refreshing, ain't it?
