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

Modder upgrades their supposedly 'vintage' 2008 ThinkPad with an RTX 4070 Super and I can feel myself crumbling to dust
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I'm definitely not ageing like a fine wine, I can tell you that much.

'Feel free to start a laptop company and see what suppliers quote you for GDDR7': Framework vents frustration amid memory crisis
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Unfortunately, it's likely to get worse before it gets better.

'We've never met a cult we didn't want to be a part of, so we're getting in on the ground floor': Dbrand announces skins for the new Steam Controller in the most Dbrand way
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Head-turning for the right reasons?

This photorealistic FPS runs in browser thanks to 'Gaussian Splatting', which is now my new favorite thing
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Photorealism in a fun new 'crunchy' flavour.

Grok 4.1 'instructed the user to drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backward' in latest AI psychosis study
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Some LLMs fall "short of a benchmark that’s already been met elsewhere."

Hardware modder connects his gaming PC to his bike and achieves 'human powered CPU cooling'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Round round, baby, round round.

Pocket console modder shrinks down Game Boy Color into a smart watch, complete with cursed control scheme
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Makes no sense. Compels me, though.

Nextorage unveils fresh new gaming SSDs, but they only come with a one-year warranty
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Has the memory supply crisis claimed another victim?

Elon Musk's aerospace and AI company reportedly plans to make its own GPUs, though I doubt you'll one day be enjoying a SpaceX graphics card in your rig
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Game on—in space?

Upscaling issues continue to plague Crimson Desert post-patch, but Pearl Abyss isn't throwing in the towel
By Jess Kinghorn published
News At least some good news for anyone gaming on an Intel Arc GPU.

'We’ve been getting around two days of normal work out of it': Proton GE dev GloriousEggRoll and CachyOS offer early praise for Framework 13 Pro's 'freakishly good battery life'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Extremely powerful.

Someone has apparently snaffled up 31 WordPress plugins and wedged a backdoor in each one
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Don't blog without the proper protections in place, folks.

'Overclocking should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money,' says VP of Intel's enthusiast chip business
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The future looks bright—just not in this hardware generation.

'Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively': Firefox CTO raves about Claude Mythos' bug hunting capabilities after it finds 271 vulnerabilities
By Jess Kinghorn published
News That's one heck of a fly swatter, Anthropic.

April's Windows 11 update reportedly causes blue screens and boot loops on HP and Dell PCs
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I'd find it easier to stay on top of OS updates, were it not for all the issues caused by said updates.

Security researchers hacked the demo version of the European Commission's new age verification app in less than two minutes
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Still a far cry from 'actually ready'.

Cybersecurity expert turns cybercriminal, pleading guilty to 'conspiracy to deploy ransomware'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The accused faces up to 20 years in prison.

Redditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Be not afraid (except maybe of leaks).

A Redditor tries to return a failed enterprise HDD to Toshiba, but it turns out that a replacement would take at least a year to arrive
By Jess Kinghorn published
News 2026 is not the year for upgrades OR replacements, it seems.

"DDoS is not a game. It's a crime!" Europol targets the youth in latest bid to take down DDoS-for-hire infrastructure
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Operation PowerOFF involves co-operation between 21 different countries.

The European Commission wants to push Google off its web search throne with a data sharing proposal
By Jess Kinghorn published
Levelling the playing field.

Fortnite Festival now lets you hit the skins for real with new MIDI drum kit compatibility
By Jess Kinghorn published
News We about to get down.

Though not a gaming mouse, the new Asus squeaker enjoys gaming-grade features and a 'ceraluminium' top coat that makes it look like a crunchy little snack
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I'm not giving up my Razer Deathadder V3 Hyperspeed for it, though.
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