Jess Kinghorn

Jess Kinghorn

Hardware Writer

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

Hands-on with Valve's new VR headset, the Steam Frame, during an interview at Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
Valve appears to be implementing a reservation system for the Steam Frame, suggesting it expects demand will outstrip supply at launch

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News Closer than you think.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
OpenAI publicly acknowledges the German 'wiki incident' weeks after first finding out about it

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News Back on track?

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Nvidia's GTC keynote with Jen-Hsun Huang at Computex, Taiwan.
Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there's already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online

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News That's a whole lot of compute, and apparently a big chunk of that went into 'safety and alignment'

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
Once again, it is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to PAX West and track down Nvidia's 'GeForce Evangelist' rather than buy the RTX 5090 anywhere else

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News They didn't even have boxed GPUs at the event this time.

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Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial motherboard
Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%

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News PC gaming sure ain't cheap.

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Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks at the Nvidia GTC event on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026.
Nvidia puts its money where its mouth is on open weight AI, moving to buy Hugging Face for $13 billion

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News Come on guys, fling a few mil my way?

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Left: Microsoft logo on an office tower exterior in downtown Vancouver. Right: The glass facade of Sony's headquarters in the Swiss city of Schlieren, on a cloudy late summer afternoon.
Both Microsoft and Sony say they're under no obligation to pass tariff refunds on to customers

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News One for me, none for thee.

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The Acer Project DualPlay Mini shown two ways: typical handheld gaming PC mode, and with the screen mid-flip into laptop mode.
Acer's bizarre hybrid handheld/laptop concept is way more interesting than what is actually getting released this year

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News Flippin' 'eck.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
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

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News Putting two and two together, but coming up with a completely different answer.

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Valve's Steam Deck with Hades ready to launch on screen
30,000 games are either Steam Deck verified or at least 'playable' on Valve's handheld

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News Hands on, and on the go.

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Two gaming OLEDs from Alienware float in a pink-blue gradient void.
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

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News *Squinting* The future looks bright.

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Windows defender logo
Windows keeps telling people it has turned off anti-virus even though it hasn't

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News The bug affects multiple versions of Windows 11 and Windows 10.

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Hands-on with Valve's new VR headset, the Steam Frame, during an interview at Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
No Half-Life 3 for the Steam Frame, so it looks like this six-year-old game might be the key launch offering instead

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News Gordon who?

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The Corsair Frame 4000X PC case with the rippling wood face plate. It's in a light blue light box, and reflections of the blue surroundings are playing off the carved ridges of the ripple design.
The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced

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Dream on? It's definitely got plenty of parts to pick from, but does it all come together?

Dream on?
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks at the Nvidia GTC event on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026.
I barely remember the last time Nvidia mentioned gaming at all in an earnings call

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News Gone, but definitely not forgotten.

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The Be Quiet Light Mount TKL wired mechanical gaming keyboard seen from various angles.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL wired mechanical gaming keyboard

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Score: 79% A very welcome TKL update that didn't quite leave me speechless.

Score: 79%
A cyberpunk city of skyscrapers, street furniture, people, and cars, entirely rendered in ASCII symbols.
Lone game dev builds an explorable cyberpunk city almost entirely out of ASCII characters

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News Dot dot dot matrix.

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The GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl Wireless Controller seen from various angles.
GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl Wireless Controller for PC and Xbox

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Score: 75% Not quite the sweetest of treats.

Score: 75%
Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
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

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News Welcome to hell.

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A Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini gaming mouse.
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

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News Finger on the pulse.

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Lisa Su, chair and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), during the 2026 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026.
'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

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News "I remain optimistic about the PC market as an important way for us to reach a broader set of users."

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Acer Nitro Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card
AMD made over 8 times as much revenue on data centers as it did gaming last quarter

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News This might suggest AI is something of a snake eating its own tail—but what else is new?

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A giant worm emerges from the sand. A person flees from this eruption.
AI worms? In your Copilot PC? According to this AI researcher, it's more likely than you think

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News Throw out the whole AI agent, I say.

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Data Center
NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix

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News I struggle to think of news less deserving of that sick guitar riff.

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The Lenovo Legion Go on a red background and playing Baldur's Gate 3.
Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty

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News Quite a handful.

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