Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks, just to see which is worth your money.
Explainer: The RAMpocalypse is making memory, SSDs, and even GPUs much more expensive, and it's all down to AI
Memory blues Here's all we know about skyrocketing memory prices and what's causing it.
CES 2026 might have been a damp squib in many areas but not when it comes to gaming monitors
CES 2026 We have a lot to look forward to this year from pixel-packed panels.
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.
Micron says it's not to blame for its high memory prices: 'There's just not enough supply to go around'
News I can't say I disagree, really. The problem is AI.
Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros
News Open all roads to open source software, I say.
Linux researcher and developer says 'there are bugs in your kernel right now that won't be found for years. I know because I analyzed 125,183 of them'
News What's bug's scarier than a spider? That's right, a Linux bug 😱
Asus is now implementing 'strategic price adjustments' and retailers are already hiking prices for laptops from other brands
News No doubt a sign of things to come.
Corsair's latest mouse pad is just begging to have my greasy fingers all over it
CES 2026 Kidding, I have far too much respect for the humble mouse pad for that.
These $200 audiophile earbuds mix planar and dynamic drivers and they look like they might actually be decent for gaming
CES 2026 Low-latency mode and some planar drivers in there, too.
Lenovo's latest rollable screen concept laptop has finally got its rolly polly the right way around
CES 2026 Left to right, not up to down.
MSI announces the 'most powerful gaming laptop on the planet' in the form of the 300 W RTX 5090 Raider 16 Max HX
CES 2026 Most powerful, so presumably most expensive, too?
AMD and Nvidia talking up local AI for consumers could be bad news for those ChatGPT subscriptions but good news for us PC gamers
CES 2026 Also, the glass is half full.
Corsair brings Hall effect to its dinky enthusiast gaming keyboard in the form of the MAKR Pro 75
CES 2026 Small and mighty.
Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight
CES 2026 But maybe they shouldn't be called the same name as the original.
If you're disappointed by the lack of gaming talk in Nvidia's CES keynote, fear not because the company might be, umm, bringing back the RTX 3060
News Although, this could actually signal worse news for PC gamers.
Nvidia looks to further eradicate motion blur with new G-Sync Pulsar improvements for '4x the effective motion clarity'
CES 2026 "With Pulsar, you get the motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor as if you're rendering at 1,000 fps."
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.
Last year I predicted all three of Valve's announcements so now I reckon I have the ability to speak these 2026 prophecies into reality
I know the future I predict a near-perfect year for PC gaming hardware, mark my words.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025
Gear of the year Three rodent contenders, but only one winner for the year.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboard of 2025
Gear of the year Three fantastic keyboards from this year, but there can only be one winner.
My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is
Gear of the Year Yes, a humble mouse pad.
2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there's still a way to go until I switch from Windows
Reluctantly Microsoft Windows, sadly, still offers some things that Linux cannot.
