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

Forza Horizon 6: Three sports cars racing past the finish line towards the camera, nearly crashing into each other.
Advanced Shader Delivery banishes long loads and shader stutter on first time launch, but only for certain games and there are a number of other caveats too

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News I don't have this problem on PS5, I'm just saying.

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
I really hope you weren't considering a GPU upgrade this year, as Nvidia may raise the price of the already pricey RTX 5090 by as much as $300

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Memory is proving an expensive problem.

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Digitally generated image of orange credit cards. Concept of fintech technology, new banking and cloud technology. Clean design.
'Going just 0.5 mm thicker would probably have saved me months of engineering': Redditor crafts actual credit card sized computer

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Imagine saying 'here's my card' with this.

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Micron Technology headquarters in Biose, Idaho, U.S., on Sunday, March 28, 2021. Micron Technology Inc. Is scheduled to release earnings figures on March 31.
While I can barely find two sticks of 16 GB to rub together, Micron unveils a 256 GB memory module destined for AI servers

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News The module is apparently "capable of speeds up to 9,200 megatransfers per second."

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Photocopier and out of order sign - stock photo
Printer-based scheme attempted to smuggle $8,967,742 worth of cocaine into Australia

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Paper jam detected.

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VTuber girl_dm_ watches as a community member uses streaming tool backseatNOW 9000 to backseat game and show her cool things in Dark Souls 2.
'It's Temu Google Stadia': Vtuber showcases backseat gaming tool while playing Dark Souls 2 for the very first time

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Strap in.

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A screenshot of Google DeepMind's Gemini AI cursor demo. The user is prompting the AI to put a sunhat on a snow man.
'What if behind the pointer, there was an AI model': Google DeepMind wants to reinvent the humble mouse cursor

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News It was not broke, and I don't think they fixed it.

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An FBI agent using a comuter.
Teaching software company strikes a deal with hackers to get customer data back, defying FBI guidance

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News A strange choice with details to follow.

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Data Center
'We would need to shut off power for half the country': Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News 'Future generations will be overburdened by the current decisions.'

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Screenshots of a small FPS project using 'gaussian splatting' to render its photorealistic environment.
Gaussian Splatting is my new favourite thing, so I hassled an ex-Epic artist to tell me everything he knows about the low-cost 'photo-real' rendering technique

By Jess Kinghorn Published

A point of view "It is not just a rendering trick—it changes the entire capture-to-delivery pipeline."

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A point of view
The Oyrein Pong Zero floats in a gradient void.
Elo Shapes reveals a speedy gaming mouse from a fresh new brand that weighs even less than the competition

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News Speeding into view.

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Rockstar ransom hackers claim to have stolen the data of 280 million teachers, school staff, and students in Canvas attack

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Lock it down, switch on 2FA, and stay safe, folks.

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A screenshot of the landing page for Google Gemini.
Google isn't scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it's letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide 'personalized insights' but I'm not sure that's better

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News You can also let Gemini scan your photos to make more "personal images using Nano Banana."

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The Steam Controller on a desk during a teardown, with various parts removed.
Valve releases the CAD files for the Steam Controller and its Puck, no doubt ushering in an era of unholy 3D printed creations

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Making it your own.

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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.
'We now expect second half gaming revenue to decline more than 20%': AMD feeling the sting of the memory supply crisis

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News "I mean, look, this is something that everyone in the industry is working with."

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A view of a gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguin at the Paradise Bay in the Gerlache Strait -which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 20, 2024. Scientists and researchers from various countries are collaborating on projects during the X Antarctic Expedition aboard the Colombian research vessel 'ARC Simon Bolivar,' designed exclusively to develop scientific projects. These initiatives involve analyzing the current condition of the Antarctic sea, studying atmospheric pressure, and monitoring the species inhabiting this region of the planet.
'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Batten down the distros.

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Windrose - A pirate player character standing beside the smuggler leader
Windrose should no longer threaten to significantly reduce your SSD's lifespan thanks to a fresh patch

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Ship shape.

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A YouTuber sits at their desktop PC, a small custom aquarium sat right beneath their dual monitor display.
YouTuber makes the most of the unused space beneath their monitors with custom desktop aquarium with actual fish in it

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Underwater, and under-monitor.

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Retro 1990s style beige desktop PC computer and monitor screen and keyboard. 3D illustration.
This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News History painstakingly preserved.

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The Glorious GHS Eternal and GHS Eternal RGB wired gaming headsets in white and black, seen from various angles.
Glorious GHS Eternal wired gaming headset review

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Score: 79% This ticks all the right boxes, but is outclassed by budget headsets that push the boat out.

Score: 79%
Screenshots of a small FPS project using 'gaussian splatting' to render its photorealistic environment.
This photorealistic FPS runs in browser thanks to 'Gaussian Splatting', which is now my new favorite thing

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News Photorealism in a fun new 'crunchy' flavour.

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Nvidia RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition
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.

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Framework 16 gaming laptop with the RTX 5070 mobile GPU upgrade module
'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.

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Valve's new and improved Steam Controller during a visit to Valve's HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
'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?

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A series of AI icons on a phone.
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."

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