Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
I've lost weekends to crushing dissenters and seals in Frostpunk 2 and that's why it's my personal pick for game of the year
🏆 The frozen wastes are ripe for tyranny.
Intel quietly slips out another Raptor Lake refresh with the Core 200-series mobile CPU lineup
News Not to be confused with the Core Ultra 200-series.
I finally built the mini PC I've been dreaming of and it made me realise we've come a long way from cramped cases and fiddly connectors
EZ Since when was building a compact PC so simple?
Man who lost £500 million bitcoin fortune to bin day is fighting for a chance to find it in court, after more than 10 years in a landfill
News If I lost a hard drive worth £500 million, you can be sure I'd never, ever stop talking about it.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires: 'Leading Intel has been the honor of my lifetime'
News Co-CEOs to take over for the interim as a successor is found.
Don't try and squeeze too many ideas inside one PC build: For this white gaming PC with an RTX 4080 Super, I very nearly did
The Build Follow along as I build a white gaming PC.
Meta Quest 3S review
Budget VR A Quest 2, but better. Or a Quest 3, but worse. Either way, this is the best VR headset on a budget.
This Half-Life 2 themed RTX 4080 Super almost makes up for the fact we're about to hit the game's 20th anniversary and there's still no Half-Life 3 in sight
News Almost...
iBuyPower RDY Y40 Valorant VCTA R003 review
Shipshape A ready-made machine with a lot to offer.
Havn HS 420 VGPU PC case review
Havn it large One of the best ways to show off your build.
AMD's top Ryzen AI mobile chip featuring Zen 5 and a juiced GPU is headed to a handheld gaming PC next month
News The handheld I've been dreaming of since my hands-on with the HX 370.
What the heck, my BIOS screen is 1080p now
News Asus has upgraded its BIOS screens to 1080p, starting with X870/E motherboards.
Mouse, keyboard or headset? Try to guess the Logitech product from the model name alone in our silly little quiz
News Difficulty: hard (unless you work at Logitech).
This streamer's Twitch chat can actively ruin his game by activating a modded headset that temporarily blinds him or setting off an IRL jumpscare
News Let him cook, chat.
This new keyboard built with switches also used in ATMs across Japan has led me down a rabbit hole of typing championships where contestants compete for a golden keyboard
News Ever heard of Topre keys? They're the king.
Ayaneo Flip DS review
Clever clamshell A compact clamshell containing everything you need for gaming on the go.
This computer built inside Minecraft has 1,107,419 blocks, over 15 million views on TikTok, and all started 'for the fun of it'
Bits 'n' blocks "How do I surpass building a massive calculator? My answer to that question was to build a 32-bit computer," says creator Ryan Boulds.
Intel Core Ultra 200S desktop CPUs deliver 'one of the largest power reductions Intel has seen in quite some time' but may fall short of 14900K in some games
News Intel talks Arrow Lake—price, performance and power savings for the less bendy chips of the next generation.
I asked Amazon's AI to show me the best Prime Day deals and thankfully I'm still better at this than a bot
Deals Rufus is trying to tread on my patch. So, let's see if it's actually any good.
Google's AI generated a 'podcast' from one of my articles and it's incredibly convincing at mimicking humans talking
The rest is bots A podcast generated in minutes by a bot—and yet I've heard worse.
Razer's bringing good vibrations to Razercon with a $300 vibrating seat cushion
News I've tried it, it was weird.
I'm trembling at the potential power of a 21,760-core RTX 5090. And the price. Actually mostly the price
Sticker shock "I'll never financially recover from this."
