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

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

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Speeding into view.

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gta 6 trailer
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

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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

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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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A YouTuber sits on a bike that he is pedalling in order to turn the fan on his CPU.
Hardware modder connects his gaming PC to his bike and achieves 'human powered CPU cooling'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Round round, baby, round round.

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Chris Hackmann's Time Frog Color, a Game Boy Color mod project that houses original hardware inside of a specially made smart watch.
Pocket console modder shrinks down Game Boy Color into a smart watch, complete with cursed control scheme

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Makes no sense. Compels me, though.

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Nvidia headquarters
Nvidia rolls out GPT-5.5-based Codex to 10,000 of its employees, who apparently all think it's 'mind-blowing' and 'life-changing'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Go on, let me hear what the grumpy office admin really thinks.

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Four of the Nextorage G Series EEA gaming SSDs float in a blue-to-pink gradient void.
Nextorage unveils fresh new gaming SSDs, but they only come with a one-year warranty

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Has the memory supply crisis claimed another victim?

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People watch from Canaveral National Seashore as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket is carrying 49 Starlink internet satellites for a broadband network.
Elon Musk's aerospace and AI company reportedly plans to make its own GPUs, though I doubt you'll one day be enjoying a SpaceX graphics card in your rig

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News Game on—in space?

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Crimson Desert Silver Fang
Upscaling issues continue to plague Crimson Desert post-patch, but Pearl Abyss isn't throwing in the towel

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News At least some good news for anyone gaming on an Intel Arc GPU.

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Framework 13 Pro ultra-repairable and upgradeable laptop
'We’ve been getting around two days of normal work out of it': Proton GE dev GloriousEggRoll and CachyOS offer early praise for Framework 13 Pro's 'freakishly good battery life'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Extremely powerful.

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Computer code and text displayed on computer screens. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Someone has apparently snaffled up 31 WordPress plugins and wedged a backdoor in each one

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Don't blog without the proper protections in place, folks.

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intel cpu
'Overclocking should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money,' says VP of Intel's enthusiast chip business

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News The future looks bright—just not in this hardware generation.

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Mozilla Firefox logo on gradient background
'Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively': Firefox CTO raves about Claude Mythos' bug hunting capabilities after it finds 271 vulnerabilities

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News That's one heck of a fly swatter, Anthropic.

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