Katie Wickens

Katie Wickens

Hardware Writer

Having been obsessed with game mechanics, computers and graphics for three decades, Katie took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni and has been writing about digital games, tabletop games and gaming technology for over five years since. She can be found facilitating board game design workshops and optimising everything in her path.

Latest articles by Katie Wickens

A Turtle Beach Stealth 500 headset in the black colourway, held up outdoors with a tree in the background.
Turtle Beach Stealth 500 review

By Katie Wickens Published

Fast charger Stealth by name… affordable by nature.

Fast charger
The ROG Harpe Ace Mini side buttons
Asus ROG Harpe Ace Mini wireless mouse review

By Katie Wickens Published

Smol A super speedy, stylish little rodent.

Smol
The BBook AI Original Edition side on.
Gigabyte Aorus and MSI Titan laptops eat your heart out: This nearly 10 pound gaming laptop mod is even chonkier and has all the power of, er, a PS5

By Katie Wickens Published

News I'm not sure we can even call this a gaming laptop.

News
An incredible case mod for the Cooler Master CMWS.
I'm dumbfounded at the ridiculous designs at the Case Mod World Series this year

By Katie Wickens Published

News Mechs, retrofuturism, and… internal organs?

News
Cyberpunk 2077's V thinking smart
Cyberpunk 2077 update promises 'up to 33%' higher frame rates on Arrow Lake and at the very least we gained 8% in the benchmark

By Katie Wickens Published

news It's a free performance boost either way!

news
The MSI 8 AI held in someone's hands, with an RGB lit background
Official MSI benchmarks put the Claw 8 AI+ handheld at 20% higher performance than the current best gaming handheld

By Katie Wickens Published

news Clawing for the crown, in comes a potential Lunar Lake contender for the best gaming handheld.

news
Stonks meme
13-year-old that made a killing creating a crypto and then dumping it gets 'revenge pumped', family doxxed, and even dognapping rumours emerge

By Katie Wickens Published

news Gen Z QUANT teenage crypytocoin creator suffers some serious backlash.

news
A Turtle Beach Kone II Air gaming mouse with RGB enabled. And a cute dog sleeping.
Turtle Beach Kone II Air review

By Katie Wickens Published

Top notch A well-rounded, wireless gaming mouse with very little to complain about.

Top notch
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen9 gaming laptop
Lenovo Legion 7i (Gen 9) gaming laptop review

By Katie Wickens Published

What battery? RTX 4080 | Intel Core i9 14900HX | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 2x 1TB SSD | $2,729  |  £2,584

What battery?
The Corsair TC100 Relaxed headrest
Corsair TC100 Relaxed gaming chair review

By Katie Wickens Last updated

Chill A relaxed gaming chair at a very relaxed price.

Chill
RedMagic Titan Pro gaming laptop
RedMagic Titan 16 Pro gaming laptop review

By Katie Wickens Published

Illusory Great for rendering, but with a bit of a strange GPU/CPU pairing.

Illusory
MSI Crosshair 16 HX gaming laptop
MSI Crosshair 16 HX gaming laptop review

By Katie Wickens Published

How much?! A chunky funky gaming laptop with high refresh and a lovely 16:10 panel.

How much?!
Optoma UHZ55 gaming projector
Optoma UHZ55 projector review

By Katie Wickens Published

Beaming A speed-demon of a long throw projector that will empty your pockets just as fast.

Beaming
Neverness to Everness screenshots
Fantasy becomes reality in Neverness to Everness, a supernatural, urban, open-world anime game built in UE5

By Katie Wickens Published

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Gigabyte Aorus 17X gaming laptop
Gigabyte Aorus 17X (2024) gaming laptop review

By Katie Wickens Published

Spine tingling A 17-inch monster gaming laptop worth breaking your back over.

Spine tingling
A pc lit up with the ask pc gamer logo.
How to stability test your PC

By Katie Wickens Last updated

Ask PC Gamer There's no point in having an overclocked system that continually crashes. Here's how to stability test.

Ask PC Gamer
Ray tracing in Cyberpunk.
PC graphics options explained

By Katie Wickens Last updated

GFX Understand what graphics options mean, and which to choose.

GFX
Elden ring pixelated monster for ASK PC gamer graphics settings guide
Which graphics settings should I always disable?

By Katie Wickens Last updated

Ask PC Gamer These performance-intensive settings have little visual impact.

Ask PC Gamer
Endgame Gear OP1 8K gaming mouse on a bright mouse pad.
Endgame Gear OP1 8K wired gaming mouse review

By Katie Wickens Published

8K A lightweight wired gaming mouse with zero drag and a superb polling rate, but a price that doesn't quite sit right.

8K
Pointing a gun at a mutant.
Dead Space meets Half-Life, only its a 3-way co-op horror Sci-Fi game

By Katie Wickens Published

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Complete with sentient pet gun.

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Characters battle in a field of sunflowers
This Soulslike RPG from the makers of the Ori series is steeped in lore and intrigue

By Katie Wickens Published

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Corsair K65 pictured outdoors with black and grey keycaps.
Corsair K65 Plus review

By Katie Wickens Published

Compact Corsair A little keyboard with very little to complain about.

Compact Corsair
A mech awakens.
This mecha passion project refreshes the genre with technical innovations and a whole lotta' sparks

By Katie Wickens Published

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Thrustmaster X 2 Pro controller on a desk.
Thrustmaster ESWAP X 2 Pro review

By Katie Wickens Published

Swapsies If SNES and Xbox controllers had a baby, only it's hot-swappable.

Swapsies
Jusant protagonist holding a cute critter
The 6 best Steam Deck games to get you through the holidays

By Katie Wickens Published

Deck the halls Hold on to your feelings and ready your banter with this list of Steam Deck games for the most wonderful time of the year.

Deck the halls
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