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

Rumour suggests Intel is cooking up a 12 Xe desktop Nova Lake CPU
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'Decent discrete graphics? In my desktop processor?'

AI data center servers predicted to glug more power than 'conventional servers' by 2027
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Coming for an overtaxed electricity grid near you.

'Thank you again rural Walmart': Redditor picks up 32 GB of memory for $50, twice
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Some folks get all the luck.

Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'Microsoft prides itself on being a good neighbor in the communities where we operate.'

Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Still cooler than me.

This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Breaking the mold.

Google loses protracted antitrust fight and will have to pay record-breaking €4.1 billion fine equivalent to less than 3% of Alphabet's annual profit
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Rulings coming home to roost.

Rumours suggest Intel may be planning to join the club of hardware manufacturers reviving old product lines, all the way back to Comet Lake
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News What a throwback.

'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News This space for rent.

'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News A better, less cooked world is still possible.

French retailer briefly offers the 'Stim Machine,' a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Making Daft Punks of us all.

Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News The face when no gif.

Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'Victory is defeat'.

Valve says it is 'definitely' investigating an Arm-based gaming future on top of its work on FEX
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Flexing ahead.

Valve doesn't currently have 'any specific plans' for more Steam Machine faceplates, so you'll have to make them yourself
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Seems like a problem a lot of glitter can fix.

'99% of the work was already done in a sense': Valve says it has less to fix with the Steam Machine because they already fixed it on the Steam Deck
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Dust yourself off and try again.

Memory crisis heads to court: Class-action lawsuit calls Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron DRAM market 'oligopolists', alleging anticompetitive behavior
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'No outsider can expand output to undercut them.'

YouTuber builds pocket-sized Game Boy emulator using an ereader, demonstrates an 'actually playable' refresh rate for your Pokémon Blue replay
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Bet you never thought you'd see an epaper display move this fast.

'London is ready to level up and lead the world in esports': Mayor of London wants to use big events to stimulate economy and create opportunities for young people
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Insert tuppence to play.

Snapdragon Reality Elite chip aims for 'up to 60% higher GPU performance, up to 30% increase in CPU performance' in VR gaming
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News A stronger case for smartglasses.

'Many people want to use VPNs for privacy—that is important—but we know that some children use them to get around restrictions': UK government considering VPN ban
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas.'

Snap unveils AR glasses which CEO describes as 'highly wearable' in clip that visibly shows the chunky frames crushing his ears
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News I'm told this is definitely not a joke that got out of hand.

Windows 11 Search will soon see through your typos and actually find what you're looking for
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Dotting the 'i's, crossing the 't's.
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