Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending a significant chunk of that time working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not investigating all things hardware here, she's either constructing a passionate defence of a 7/10 game, daydreaming about her debut novel, or feeling wistful about the last time she chased some nerds around a field with an oversized foam sword.
Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News PC gaming sure ain't cheap.

Nvidia puts its money where its mouth is on open weight AI, moving to buy Hugging Face for $13 billion
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Come on guys, fling a few mil my way?

Both Microsoft and Sony say they're under no obligation to pass tariff refunds on to customers
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News One for me, none for thee.

Acer's bizarre hybrid handheld/laptop concept is way more interesting than what is actually getting released this year
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Flippin' 'eck.

OpenAI head Sam Altman says 'people hate data centers,' but the company still plans to invest $50 billion more in AI infrastructure this year alone
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Putting two and two together, but coming up with a completely different answer.

30,000 games are either Steam Deck verified or at least 'playable' on Valve's handheld
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Hands on, and on the go.

Alienware aims at 'more price points people can actually reach,' announces a tandem OLED gaming monitor at a much lower price than our current top pick
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News *Squinting* The future looks bright.

Windows keeps telling people it has turned off anti-virus even though it hasn't
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News The bug affects multiple versions of Windows 11 and Windows 10.

No Half-Life 3 for the Steam Frame, so it looks like this six-year-old game might be the key launch offering instead
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Gordon who?

The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced
By Jess Kinghorn Published
Dream on? It's definitely got plenty of parts to pick from, but does it all come together?

I barely remember the last time Nvidia mentioned gaming at all in an earnings call
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Gone, but definitely not forgotten.

Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL wired mechanical gaming keyboard
By Jess Kinghorn Published
Score: 79% A very welcome TKL update that didn't quite leave me speechless.

Lone game dev builds an explorable cyberpunk city almost entirely out of ASCII characters
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Dot dot dot matrix.

GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl Wireless Controller for PC and Xbox
By Jess Kinghorn Published
Score: 75% Not quite the sweetest of treats.

It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Welcome to hell.

Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Finger on the pulse.

'AI PCs will become more important': AMD's Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News "I remain optimistic about the PC market as an important way for us to reach a broader set of users."

AMD made over 8 times as much revenue on data centers as it did gaming last quarter
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News This might suggest AI is something of a snake eating its own tail—but what else is new?

AI worms? In your Copilot PC? According to this AI researcher, it's more likely than you think
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Throw out the whole AI agent, I say.

NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News I struggle to think of news less deserving of that sick guitar riff.

Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Quite a handful.

Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News What's cooler than being cool?

MacBook Neo outperforms Dell XPS 13 in Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark—though I wouldn't recommend gaming on either notebook
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Affordable AND performant.
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