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

A Steam Machine and Steam Controller, side-by-side in front of a TV
Steam Machine compatibility checks are here, though not every game on the store enjoys a rating

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News Apparently Valve is 'still learning' about compatibility for years-old games.

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The SK Hynix Semiconductor Inc. logo is displayed at the company's plant during a media tour organized by Korea Industrial Complex Corp. (KICOX) in Cheongju, South Korea, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. KICOX, which develops and manages industrial complexes and support for resident enterprises as a public company under South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, held a media tour to the plant
'Customer demand will remain higher than our supply capacity even beyond 2030': SK hynix CEO predicts memory supply crisis may run even longer than we feared

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News What a difference a weekend makes.

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A surreal photo where a Steam Deck handheld gaming pc has been placed over the top of a much too small frying pan. Someone is attempting to flip the Steam Deck with a grey, silicone spatula.
Handheld gaming PCs are cooked

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Counting down Fancy a spot of pessimism, perchance?

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Counting down
Flag of China
Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation

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News A new challenger has appeared.

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Valve's new Steam Machine during a visit to Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington. The Steam Machine is a compact living room gaming PC.
E-Ink faceplates for the Steam Machine are coming, but not from Valve

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News I am going to put the filthiest fanfiction on this thing.

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Intel office
Rumour suggests Intel is cooking up a 12 Xe desktop Nova Lake CPU

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News 'Decent discrete graphics? In my desktop processor?'

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Aerial view of MS Datacenter in Holland .
AI data center servers predicted to glug more power than 'conventional servers' by 2027

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News Coming for an overtaxed electricity grid near you.

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Close up view of laptop ddr memory modules in shopping cart on black background
'Thank you again rural Walmart': Redditor picks up 32 GB of memory for $50, twice

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News Some folks get all the luck.

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Microsoft campus
Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center

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News 'Microsoft prides itself on being a good neighbor in the communities where we operate.'

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A man poses in a yellow hard hat with a big, blue, 3D printed chimney jutting out of the top of it.
Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling

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News Still cooler than me.

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A close up of the RTX 4080M, a modded GPU unoficially released that combines laptop and desktop components of Nvidia's RTX 4080 cards.
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

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News Breaking the mold.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 22: A view of Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California, United States on August 22, 2024.
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

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News Rulings coming home to roost.

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Intel manufacturing fab
Rumours suggest Intel may be planning to join the club of hardware manufacturers reviving old product lines, all the way back to Comet Lake

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News What a throwback.

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Mark Zuckerberg wearing Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
'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.

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A split screen image of Google's offices in Toronto, Canada, and a close up phone photo of Search's AI Overview.
'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing

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News A better, less cooked world is still possible.

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French retailer LDLC's PC Box, a direct competitor the Valve's Steam Machine made out of standard PC components.
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.

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Google campus sign
Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database

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News The face when no gif.

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Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games

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News 'Victory is defeat'.

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A Steam Machine in the dark, showing the blue LED light strip against the black chassis with a bright blue background
Valve says it is 'definitely' investigating an Arm-based gaming future on top of its work on FEX

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News Flexing ahead.

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A Steam Machine with a wood faceplate attached, in front of a TV
Valve doesn't currently have 'any specific plans' for more Steam Machine faceplates, so you'll have to make them yourself

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News Seems like a problem a lot of glitter can fix.

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A Steam Machine in front of a TV setup, with the Steam Controller connected
'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.

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SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron signs in front of company buildings.
Memory crisis heads to court: Class-action lawsuit calls Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron DRAM market 'oligopolists', alleging anticompetitive behavior

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News 'No outsider can expand output to undercut them.'

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A hand taps the emulated d-pad of an original Game Boy on an ereader device. Pokemon Blue is being played in greyscale.
YouTuber builds pocket-sized Game Boy emulator using an ereader, demonstrates an 'actually playable' refresh rate for your Pokémon Blue replay

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News Bet you never thought you'd see an epaper display move this fast.

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan speaks to the media during his visit to the Red Bull Gaming Sphere Tokyo in the city's Nakano district on 18 June 2026.
'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

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News Insert tuppence to play.

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Various VR and XR device mock-ups featuring the recently announced Snapdragon Reality Elite SoC float in a red void.
Snapdragon Reality Elite chip aims for 'up to 60% higher GPU performance, up to 30% increase in CPU performance' in VR gaming

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News A stronger case for smartglasses.

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