Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
Latest articles by Dave James

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Gear of the Year Through thick and thin.

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Gear of the year A whole new generation of graphics cards dropped this year, but which can take the crown?

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Launch malfunction This year saw the worst launch of any GPU generation I can remember in all my 20 years as a tech journo.

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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?

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Score: 83% A compact machine with high-end tech in all the right places.

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Score: 51% Is it a tablet, is it a handheld gaming PC, is it a laptop... you know where this is going.

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Here are the top 10 gaming keyboards we've tested ourselves.

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Top tech These are the top 10 gaming laptops we've benchmarked and tested ourselves.

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AI-free Refreshing, ain't it?

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Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.

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MS no more Valve has been loosening a desperate Microsoft's grip on PC gaming one gnarled finger at a time.

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Score: 73% I'm happy to see you, but buddy, you're out of my league.

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All the kit to help you game like a professional.

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Score: 84% Expensive, and one of the best handheld gaming PCs, but c'mon, Microsoft, this is no Xbox.

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ROGer It's seriously quiet, real fast, and the Windows handheld experience mostly works. Mostly. But that price...

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Precisely why? I can't help but feel this is more pro-gamer placebo than anything else.

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So. Many. Buttons The Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE isn't just a pretty facia of many, many buttons.

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Wires Nope, you won't convince me this is a worthwhile thing. Wires are fine.

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Score: 81% An almost ludicrously expensive chair for those with discerning tastes. And spines.

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Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.

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News The new Framework 16 has been announced with a backwards compatible RTX 5070 graphics module.

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Score: 82% Corsair's buffed the rough edges off its first desk, and some of the width too, creating the best compact gaming desk you can buy.
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