Latest articles by Dave James
Razer Blade 14 (2025) gaming laptop review
Score: 86% The 2025 update for Razer's micro machine has pretty much made it my ideal gaming laptop.
Best mechanical keyboards in 2025: the clacky boards I'd buy in a heartbeat
Click Clack Make the switch with our guide to the best mechanical gaming keyboards.
The best Mini-ITX PC case in 2025: the top tiny cases I've tested so far
Mini but Mighty Go compact and cute with the best Mini-ITX PC cases.
'Most chairs labeled as 'gaming' chairs are simply budget task chairs with colorful accent stripes': here's what annoys industry experts the most about gaming chairs
Ergo I've spoken with a group of certified ergonomists about what makes the best gaming chair and what annoys them the most about modern seats.
The best left-handed mouse for gaming in 2025: The top ambidextrous and mirrored rodents for the southpaw PC gamer
Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.
I built a real SteamOS Steam Machine out of the guts of an old laptop so Gabe doesn't have to go through that whole sad dance again
Steam Machine I get why you might not want to go back, but I just made myself a Steam Machine from office bits and it was (eventually) pretty damned easy.
The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2025: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears
Budding gamers So you finally managed to bag a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, now what are the best gaming earbuds to go with it?
Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center
News Micro Center says it could be an issue at source in China, which means there could be far more than 32 cases of missing GPUs.
The best gaming projectors: These are the beamers I'd use for my home gaming theatre
Beam me up Bigger and more portable than monitors, grab one of these projectors for the ultimate home gaming experience.
Best curved monitors for gaming in 2025: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of
Bendy Immerse yourself to the max with these vision-enclosing panels.
Nvidia RTX 5060 review live: looks like the 8 GB of VRAM isn't the biggest issue the new card has to face
Live! You're going to learn how the new Nvidia GPU performs alongside me, isn't that exciting? No? Just me then.
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop review
Score: 87% The most performant gaming laptop of this generation, and RTX 5090 be damned.
Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we're looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console
News Want to literally see inside the Switch 2's processor?
Nvidia announces RTX 5060 release date of May 19 for both the $299 desktop GPU and $1,099 gaming laptops
news The budget graphics silicon is hitting just before Computex... where another budget GPU beckons.
MSI Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop review
Score: 83% A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.
Oblivion struggling to nail 60 fps on my RTX 5090 was not on my 2025 bingo card, but without frame gen Oblivion Remastered's top settings bring the card to its knees
Struggle pug Sticking everything on Ultra with a UE5 game was always going to be thus, I guess.
Here are the Oblivion Remastered system specs: 'More friendly to gamers with modern hardware' and Steam Deck Verified
News There's Lumen software and hardware ray tracing, so no RTX actually required.
Razer has pulled the pricing and pre-order pages for its new Blade laptops and I think it's pretty obvious what's happening here
news Razer's taken down laptop pricing, new tariffs will make tech pricing higher, 2+2=4.
AMD RX 9070 XT vs Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti: This is 2025's graphics card battle royale
Which of the modern graphics cards should you be dropping into your PC?
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 gaming laptop review
Score: 78% Anachronistic gaming laptop style with RTX 5090-topping performance.
The focus on GPU efficiency over fps means this year's gaming laptops are capable of something they've never been good at
Big boi gaming laptops with genuine gaming battery life was not what I expected from the class of '25.
Razer Blade 16 (2025) gaming laptop review
Score: 90% Simply the best gaming laptop I've ever used. So, how will Asus respond this time?
Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile tested: The needle hasn't moved on performance but this is the first time I'd consider ditching my desktop for a gaming laptop
With Nvidia's focus on efficiency over raw performance gains there will be pushback, but this is the mobile gaming experience I've been after.
