Hardware

Score: 83%

Razer Raiju V3 Pro wireless controller review

By Jess Kinghorn Published 23 October 25

News

Razer is finally giving a PlayStation-style controller the full competitive treatment and it's called the Raiju V3 Pro

By Jacob Fox Published 23 October 25

Score: 79%

Scuf Valor Pro wireless controller review

By Jess Kinghorn Published 22 October 25

There's competition

The Wolverine V3 Pro is no longer the best high-end PC gamepad, because Razer's been indulging in some seriously rabid regicide

By James Bentley Published 21 October 25

Total control

Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers

By Dave James Last updated 21 October 25

Score: 93%

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro 8K PC controller review

By Alex Blake Published 13 October 25

News

Logitech has announced an affordable 8 Nm direct drive racing wheel setup with full TrueForce support, along with some fancy trick pedals I want to try for myself

By Andy Edser Published 17 September 25

Hail the king

Huzzah! Microsoft no longer makes the best PC controller and it's been dethroned by a brand you may not have heard of

By James Bentley Published 17 September 25

News

This spicy leverless DIY kit has tiny circuit boards under each button so you can create your own rapid trigger Hitbox

By Jacob Fox Published 16 September 25

News

This Redditor is playing Battlefield 6 on an AIO cooler and I can't for the life of me figure out why

By Jacob Fox Published 20 October 25

Fan-tastic

Best PC fans in 2025: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 October 25

News

Microsoft is resorting to laser etching AI-designed cooling channels directly into data center chips to tame their massive heat

By Nick Evanson Published 24 September 25

News

Hyte says all Thicc Q80 Trio users should 'remove the cooler from their system immediately' and get a refund after internal fault found

By Jacob Fox Published 11 September 25

News

'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun

By Nick Evanson Published 2 September 25

News

Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs

By Nick Evanson Published 29 August 25

News

AMD scales back its CPU cooler bundles, with some older Ryzen models dropping it altogether

By Nick Evanson Published 28 August 25

Score: 67%

MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 360 review

By Jacob Ridley Published 20 August 25

News

Asus heard you like screens, so it put a curved '3D effect' OLED screen on your CPU water cooler

By Jeremy Laird Published 20 August 25

News

Razer thoughtlessly alienates half its audience with ad showing a man blocking out a woman's 'yapping' with its latest headset

By Jacob Ridley Published 23 October 25

Volume up

Best PC speakers in 2025: from 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers

By Andy Edser Last updated 22 October 25

Score: 74%

Logitech G321 Lightspeed review

By James Bentley Published 17 October 25

Score: 64%

Razer Kraken Kitty V2 Gengar Edition review

By Jess Kinghorn Published 16 October 25

Score: 76%

Creative SoundBlaster GS3 soundbar review

By Ian Evenden Published 16 October 25

Score: 72%

Creative Pebble Pro speaker review

By Ian Evenden Published 14 October 25

News

Edifier's new desktop speaker is treating gaming PCs as a luxury HiFi aesthetic, but it's just not doing it for me

By Andy Edser Published 13 October 25

News

SteelSeries unveils new high-end wireless gaming headset with a price tag that might be too dear for even my audiophile ears

By Jacob Ridley Published 30 September 25

News

PlayStation announces new Pulse speakers but pitches them as perfect for 'desktop gaming'

By Jess Kinghorn Published 25 September 25

Take a seat

Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 October 25

Precisely why?

Secretlab's new InfinitePrecision pro-gamer armrests aren't what I thought they were going to be. Nor as precise as I expected

By Dave James Published 7 October 25

Score: 81%

Humanscale Freedom Chair with Headrest review

By Dave James Published 15 September 25

Score: 83%

LiberNovo Omni gaming chair review

By Kizito Katawonga Published 11 September 25

Score: 55%

Flexispot OC3/BS3 review

By James Bentley Published 17 July 25

Score: 79%

Razer Iskur V2 X review

By Ian Evenden Published 26 June 25

Couch potato

Couchmaster Cycon3 review

By Hope Corrigan Published 16 June 25

Ergo

'Most chairs labeled as 'gaming' chairs are simply budget task chairs with colorful accent stripes': here's what annoys industry experts the most about gaming chairs

By Dave James Published 12 June 25

Ow.

AndaSeat Novis gaming chair review

By Kizito Katawonga Published 11 June 25

Score: 86%

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

By Mollie Taylor Published 22 October 25

Swanky surface

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

By James Bentley Published 13 October 25

Top Desks

Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

By Dave James Last updated 13 October 25

Luxurious

Grovemade desk review

By Jacob Fox Published 3 September 25

Score: 85%

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

By Jacob Ridley Published 14 August 25

Score: 82%

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

By Dave James Published 11 August 25

News

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it

By James Bentley Published 22 May 25

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

By James Bentley Published 25 March 25

ALL THE SPACE

Ikea Utespelare desk review

By Hope Corrigan Published 28 December 24

News

Keychron's upcoming fully ceramic keyboard is a strange choice for rapid trigger and 8K polling but it's incredibly shiny so I'll take it

By Jacob Fox Published 14 October 25

Score: 86%

Lofree Flow 2 mechanical keyboard review

By Alex Blake Published 13 October 25

Sponsored

Want an ergonomic keyboard unlike any other? Experience peak performance with the ROG Falcata

By Cole Martin Published 9 October 25

News

Sick of clicky-clacky keys? Google Japan offers a reminder that it could always be worse, unveiling a rotary keyboard concept

By Jess Kinghorn Published 9 October 25

News

Corsair announces Vanguard 96, a line of 96% gaming keyboards with Hall effect switches and, for some reason, Stream Deck integration

By Jess Kinghorn Published 25 September 25

News

Logitech announces a solar keyboard powered by 'any light source'—yes, even your dingily lit gamer den

By Jess Kinghorn Published 24 September 25

Model citizen

The keyboard that all other keyboards copied turns 40 this year: here's how the IBM Model M's legacy lives on today

By Reece Bithrey Published 23 September 25

News

A more expensive rapid trigger version of Logitech's G515 gaming keyboard has just launched and it's for low-profile fans

By James Bentley Published 17 September 25

news

A Californian company wants to sell you an outrageously expensive $8,000 keyboard supposedly inspired by a Roman philosopher, but did the Stoics really go in for conspicuous consumption?

By Jeremy Laird Published 17 September 25

Top tech

The best gaming laptops we've reviewed in 2025 so far

By Dave James Published 21 October 25

Score: 70%

Acer Predator Triton 14 AI gaming laptop review

By Ian Evenden Published 20 October 25

News

Gigabyte's new gaming laptops come with voice control for performance, fan, and privacy settings, so you can shout at them if they won't pipe down

By Jacob Fox Published 17 October 25

Score: 73%

Gigabyte Gaming A16 gaming laptop review

By Zak Storey Published 9 October 25

Prime Day

The RTX 5080 MSI Vector 16 has dropped by $200, so it's time for me to tap the 'it's a really good gaming laptop' sign once more

By Andy Edser Published 7 October 25

Score: 81%

Lenovo LOQ 15 Gen10 gaming laptop review

By Zak Storey Published 3 October 25

News

This Energizer-branded laptop has a massive 192 Wh battery with up to 7 days standby time, but you won't technically be able to take it on your next flight

By James Bentley Published 30 September 25

News

Asus ROG says it is 'actively investigating' gaming laptop stuttering issues after a user apparently identified a 'cascade of firmware design failures'

By Jacob Fox Published 18 September 25

News

I now know what my life has been missing and it's a set of rotary encoders sunk straight into the top of a mechanical-keebed Framework laptop, for some reason

By Andy Edser Published 17 September 25

Score: 87%

8BitDo Retro R8 gaming mouse review

By James Bentley Published 21 October 25

News

The foldable OriMouse is a mere 5 mm thick and weighs just 38 g but the photos give me a serious case of the heebie-jeebies

By Andy Edser Published 16 October 25

News

Apparently optical gaming mice can spy on what we're saying and video games are an 'ideal target'

By Jacob Fox Published 9 October 25

Float on

There's a new king of lightweight gaming mice and I'll 1v1 anyone who disses the ultralight market

By Jacob Fox Published 2 October 25

Pinpoint

Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks

By Dave James Last updated 2 October 25

Unbound

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on

By Dave James Last updated 1 October 25

Score: 92%

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless gaming mouse review

By Jacob Fox Published 26 September 25

Score: 79%

Glorious Model O3 Wireless review

By Jacob Fox Published 25 September 25

So. Many. Buttons

Multi-button gaming mice aren't just for MMOs as Corsair's latest rodent shows, knocking Razer off its historic perch as best MMO gaming mouse

By Dave James Published 19 September 25

news

TCL's new OLED megafactory is purpose-built to make 'high-end' screens for monitors, laptops and tablets cheaper thanks to a low-cost inkjet manufacturing process

By Jeremy Laird Published 22 October 25

news

Reports of OLED's death are greatly exaggerated and it's not about to be replaced by RGB mini-LED displays

By Jeremy Laird Published 21 October 25

Ultra OLED

OLED monitors are the perfect match for any speedy gaming PC and if you're eyeballing a new ultrawide, we've just crowned a new champion for you to consider

By Nick Evanson Published 15 October 25

Eye candy

Best OLED gaming monitors in 2025: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays

By Jeremy Laird Last updated 15 October 25

News

This new 4K gaming monitor is so ridiculously bright I'm gonna need to wear shades

By Jeremy Laird Published 7 October 25

Two in one

Now that 4K/1080p dual-mode monitors are officially a thing, it's the perfect time to play a game of guessing what madcap tech monitors will next sport

By Nick Evanson Published 19 September 25

4K Vision

Best 4K gaming monitors in 2025: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend

By Dave James Last updated 19 September 25

News

I bet Return of the Obra Dinn looks perfect on this open-source 75 Hz e-paper display kit—and it's compatible with a whole bunch of existing panels, too

By Andy Edser Published 10 September 25

news

After 18 months and over 4,000 hours of brutal 'worst case' monitor usage, independent testing finds OLED burn-in is only just beginning to get 'annoying'

By Jeremy Laird Published 10 September 25

News

This €130 gaming PC in a plastic jug churns out a whole 15 fps in Fortnite and might be the best/worst DIY build I've ever seen

By Andy Edser Published 21 October 25

Score: 89%

OcUK Gaming Mach 5R review

By James Bentley Published 18 September 25

Build it

Moody and wooden, this PC and I have a lot in common: Asus ProArt Case PA401, Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT build

By Jacob Ridley Published 15 September 25

News

One lucky Redditor has bagged a second-hand $8,000 RTX 3080 Ti Threadripper PC for a mere $32

By Jacob Fox Published 10 September 25

Build it

I've taken a proper bargain of a case from Thermaltake and built a gorgeous white PC with it

By Jacob Ridley Published 8 September 25

News

Valve applies to use 'Steam Frame' as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues

By Jeremy Laird Published 4 September 25

DIY

Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 26 August 25

News

Valve's rumoured 'Fremont' SteamOS console spotted on Geekbench... running Windows 11

By Jeremy Laird Published 20 August 25

News

HP announces an updated set of Omen Max 45L RTX 5090 rigs with Ryzen CPUs, but no word on price yet leaves me worried

By James Bentley Published 14 August 25

News

OK, the Xe3 GPU in Intel's Panther Lake chip officially isn't Celestial, it's really just Xe2 'Plus Plus,' but even Intel itself doesn't yet understand how it all relates to its shock new deal with Nvidia

By Jeremy Laird Published 23 October 25

News

The first US-made Nvidia Blackwell wafer just came out of TSMC Arizona, but don't get carried away thinking about RTX 50 Supers yet

By Jacob Fox Published 21 October 25

News

Battlefield 6 is so well-optimised it's playable on an eight-year-old RX 570 with just 4 GB of VRAM

By Jacob Fox Published 17 October 25

News

Nvidia's little gold box of pure AI power, the DGX Spark, is finally out and the comparison with AMD's much cheaper Strix Halo chip is looking a little fugly

By Jeremy Laird Published 16 October 25

News

The plot thickens as Intel announces a new data center GPU that could also preview its next-gen gaming graphics cards, but there's still no mention of Celestial

By Jeremy Laird Published 15 October 25

news

I've never really been sold on the whole external GPU thing, but I can't deny this Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock is seriously slick, it'll even charge your phone wirelessly

By Jeremy Laird Published 15 October 25

News

MSI denies selling selling the RTX 5090 in China after pictures surface showing giant pallets of the restricted GPUs in the country

By Jacob Fox Published 15 October 25

News

Intel attempts to clarify whether the new Xe3 iGPU in Panther Lake is next-gen Celestial technology but I'm left confused and fearing for the future of Intel Arc graphics

By Jeremy Laird Published 14 October 25

News

This RTX 5070 Ti with a literal hole in it has been kept on life support by a spliced-in AMD RX 580, because no GPU gets left behind

By Andy Edser Published 13 October 25

News

So much for Xbox full screen experience, it looks like the ROG Xbox Ally X might get much better performance on Linux with faux-SteamOS operating system Bazzite

By Jacob Fox Published 23 October 25

News

The ROG Xbox Ally X seems surprisingly repairable and upgradeable judging by iFixit's teardown video, which could be good news for stick drift

By Jacob Fox Published 21 October 25

News

'It really was Asus' says Microsoft about the ROG Xbox Ally X's eye-watering $1,000 price tag: 'That is all of their insight into the market'

By Andy Edser Published 20 October 25

Score: 84%

Asus ROG Xbox Ally X handheld gaming PC review

By Dave James Published 17 October 25

ROGer

Now it's in my hands the new Xbox Ally X is a far better handheld than I expected, but it's still got a lot of work to do to convince me it's a) worth $1,000 or b) that it's an Xbox

By Dave James Published 15 October 25

News

The ROG Xbox Ally price starts at $999 in Australia, and pre-orders are open now

By Shaun Prescott Published 26 September 25

News

The ROG Xbox Ally X priced at $1,000 and available to preorder in October, making it officially the most expensive 'Xbox' ever

By James Bentley Published 26 September 25

news

Microsoft wants to sell you a Steam Deck in 2025 for $600 as Xbox Ally pricing unveiled

By Jeremy Laird Published 26 September 25

News

Despite its $1,000+ price tag, Lenovo Legion Go 2 pre-orders have 'substantially exceeded' expections, resulting in cancellations and delays

By James Bentley Published 24 September 25

Win or Bin?

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

By Andy Edser Published 1 September 25

Light it up!

The best desk lighting in 2025: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 9 May 25

Reactive

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

By Josh Brown Published 21 November 24

Sync'd

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

By Josh Brown Published 21 November 24

Scripted

Elgato Light Strip Pro review

By Hope Corrigan Published 11 November 24

Unit 01

Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review

By Hope Corrigan Published 29 October 24

Lit up

Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review

By Hope Corrigan Published 11 October 24

Stunner

Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review

By Hope Corrigan Published 4 October 24

Sponsored

AI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions

By Sponsored Published 18 September 24

News

In case we needed a visceral reminder just how screwed memory prices are thanks to AI, Samsung and SK hynix are apparently raising prices by up to 30%

By Jacob Fox Published 23 October 25

News

Looks like the AI boom has made DDR4 RAM no better value than DDR5 as storage and memory prices continue to rise

By Jacob Fox Published 22 October 25

news

Uh oh, it's happening: ADATA chairman says the perfect storm of simultaneous DRAM, SSD and HDD shortages is already upon us and it looks like prices are only going in one direction

By Jeremy Laird Published 15 October 25

News

AMD wants to patent a new DDR5 memory standard with double the bandwidth but we're not expecting to see it in PCs any time soon

By Jeremy Laird Published 25 September 25

News

It's going to be raining dollars over at Samsung: A stamp of approval by Nvidia, plus an incoming price hike for DRAM chips, has lifted shares out of the doldrums

By Nick Evanson Published 22 September 25

News

If you bought Corsair PC memory after 2018 you might be entitled to a share of $5.5 million from a class action over advertised DDR4 and DDR5 speeds

By Jeremy Laird Published 16 September 25

News

I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are

By Andy Edser Published 15 September 25

News

Asus says its Intel 800-series motherboards are approved to run DDR5-7200 without an XMP profile, pointing to a RAM speed boost for an Arrow Lake refresh

By Nick Evanson Published 5 September 25

News

Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved

By Nick Evanson Published 8 August 25

Best Mobo

Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today

By Dave James Last updated 21 October 25

Score: 70%

MSI Z890 Ace motherboard review

By Nick Evanson Published 21 October 25

Score: 87%

MSI Z890 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard review

By Nick Evanson Published 21 October 25

Score: 70%

ASRock X870 Nova WiFi motherboard review

By Nick Evanson Published 13 October 25

News

PC component maker Maxsun decides the time is right for a new motherboard format, by taking a hacksaw to an mATX circuit board

By Nick Evanson Published 23 September 25

News

AI, take the wheel: Gigabyte's latest motherboards will 'intelligently dynamically' improve performance of Ryzen chips by up to 25% in games through a built-in AI model

By Jacob Ridley Published 12 September 25

News

Tired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back

By Nick Evanson Published 2 September 25

News

MSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike extravagance with a gold-trimmed AMD motherboard—to go with your golden graphics card and RAM, naturally

By Jacob Ridley Published 20 August 25

News

If you're using an Intel 8–11th Gen CPU with a Gigabyte motherboard, update your BIOS to protect from a newly discovered vulnerability

By Jacob Fox Published 15 July 25