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 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

By Jess Kinghorn Published

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

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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

By Jess Kinghorn Published

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

By Jess Kinghorn Published

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

By Jess Kinghorn Published

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

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News A stronger case for smartglasses.

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Secretary of State for Science, Innovation & Technology Liz Kendall addresses delegates during a session on day two of London Tech Week at Olympia Exhibition Centre on June 09, 2026 in London, England
'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

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News 'We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas.'

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel discusses AR Glasses Specs with CNBC.
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.

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Windows 11 operating system logo is displayed on a laptop screen for illustration photo. Gliwice, Poland on January 23, 2022.
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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A late afternoon view shows two young women walking past a wall-sized anime mural along Chuo-dori (Central Avenue) in the Akihabara district (known as Electric Town for its maze of electronics stores, but currently considered an almost sacred destination by members of Japan's otaku culture, drawn to Akihabara's video game centers, maid cafes, anime shops, and manga comics), located in Chiyoda Ward in central Tokyo, Japan.
Warning all weebs: Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware via anime girl wallpapers on Steam Workshop's Wallpaper Engine

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Is nothing sacred?

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A DualSense controller is seen on a colourful background, with stripes of pink, purple, and blue.
The DualSense can still drift, but Sony may be exploring magnetic tech for shape-shifting buttons in whatever comes next

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News Worth a poke.

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Half-Life 2: RTX Remix
'Half-Life 2 RTX has shrunk from 80 GB to 50 GB': RTX Remix 1.5 update shrinks file sizes, and also starts letting in AI agents

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News I suppose that's one way to bring an old game up to date…

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The Commodore Callback 8020 smart-ish flip phone is seen from various angles.
A new flip phone that blocks social media at a system level is coming out, and you'll never guess which retro gaming company is making it

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News It's billed as 'less scroll, and more soul.'

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The Sony PS5 Dualsense gamepad controller top down view.
DualSense PC gamers have been vindicated at last, as haptic support is finally here—though no thanks to Sony

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News Power in your hands.

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A screen shot from scan artist Christoph Schindelar's Skate-Demo, a project that uses a Gaussian splat of a real world skate park.
A little known rendering technique that can create low-cost, photo-real graphics may be about to have its big moment in game development

By Jess Kinghorn Published

A closer look Sheer art attack.

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A closer look
The Phanteks EX 5 PLUS is seen at Computex 2026.
Phanteks shows off PC case that bucks the fish tank trend in favour of greater thermal efficiency and giving your GPU its own little room

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I don't need a new case, I don't need a new case, I don't need a new case…

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