Hardware

Here's when the Steam Controller will be available again in Australia, and I hope you like being awake at 3am

Steam Controllers to come back in stock with reprise of Steam Deck reservation system

Valve releases the CAD files for the Steam Controller and its Puck, no doubt ushering in an era of unholy 3D printed creations

Best PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers

Valve says Steam Controller sold out 'faster than we anticipated' but previously told us it has knobs it can turn to get more

Steam Controller is sold out in most regions, but Australia—you still have a chance (Update: Too late it's gone)

eBay resellers are turning a tidy profit on Steam Controllers

The Steam Controller sold out in 30 minutes, utterly breaking Steam in the process

How to use every Xbox controller on PC

YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer

Making black versions of Noctua's beige fans is 'less like painting a wooden fence... and more like changing the colour of a carbon-fibre Formula 1 part'

You can now download 3D CAD models of Noctua fans, but the company warns they 'will not perform well when printed'

Hardware modder connects his gaming PC to his bike and achieves 'human powered CPU cooling'

'I basically sprinkle water drops on top of tissue paper': One redditor's quest to cool their Mac mini

Redditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'

YouTuber builds PC side panel out of 15 Noctua fans and names it the 'Superdome', cuts temps by 20 °C

Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync review

You can chow down on this edible thermal paste made from gold leaf and honey, and it's not as horrible for your temps as you might expect

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review

Glorious GHS Eternal wired gaming headset review

HyperX Cloud Flight 2 gaming headset review

Cambridge Audio L/R S review

Asus ROG Kithara headset review

Asus ROG Cetra Open Wireless review

The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears

EarFun Air Pro 4+ earbuds review

Logitech G325 Lightspeed review

Toyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it's $3,500

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one

Black Friday gaming chair deals 2025

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

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

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

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

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

Ikea Utespelare desk review

Sit down, relax, and see how a magnetic keyboard switch is made with Wooting's CEO

I've spent the past month testing Keychron's concrete keeb and it's absolutely brilliant, with one small sticking point

Logitech G512 X review

Attention keyboard nerds: This website lets you hear the sound of 36 different mechanical keebs, switches, and more as you type

Framework is building its own keyboard and will even help you make your own

Keychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch

Cherry K5 Pro TMR Compact magnetic gaming keyboard review

Here's a keycap that's also a watch, for the discerning gamer

Asus ROG Strix Morph 96 Wireless review

Elo Shapes reveals a speedy gaming mouse from a fresh new brand that weighs even less than the competition

Some pro gamers change mouse pads every few months, and that makes me wonder how often I should change mine

There's a website to competitively guess gaming mouse shapes, and it's a better use of my time than doomscrolling

Everyone's favorite egg-shaped rodent might be getting the Superlight treatment, meaning Logitech could once again snatch the budget gaming mouse crown

This web tool now lets you compare gaming mouse shapes in full 3D and let this mouse nerd tell you why that's important

Turtle Beach has wedged a touchscreen into the side of its new 8K gaming mouse and it's giving me the heebie-jeebies

A new version of one of my all-time favourite mouse shapes just launched and it could be perfect for palm and relaxed claw grippers

Razer has just announced the world's thinnest glass mouse pad and it looks gorgeous

Pulsar actually sold its 500-gram April Fools' Day joke gaming mouse, and despite looking 'extremely sluggish', it's 'really not that bad'

Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz review

Alienware AW2726DM gaming monitor review

Microsoft's latest PowerToys tool brings control of your monitor into Windows: a must-have for anyone with lots of big monitors and too little time

Keychron unleashes big, eminently bashable $65 mechanical single-key keyboard with 8K polling for ultra-low latency tantrums

Samsung's 'world's first' 6K 32-inch gaming monitor goes on sale for 1,499 euros

BenQ RD280UG 3:2 monitor review

Philips and AOC's upcoming 5th-gen OLED gaming monitors were a feast for my eyes and a dire threat to my wallet

'Are monitors anti-inflation?': AOC argues monitors are a better upgrade than graphics cards or memory right now, which seems like the kind of thing a monitor manufacturer would say

Philips is bringing its 5K dual-mode gaming monitor to the West, and it comes in a neat white shell

The Nintendo Switch 2 could see a $50-100 price hike says report as pesky investors complain about the launch price

Steam Deck verification criteria continues to confuse as Masters of Albion is marked Unsupported, despite devs considering it 'fully optimised for handheld'

I just built a $70,000 digital PC and visualized its terrible airflow in 3D with this neat part-picking website

The best gaming laptops in Australia for 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favourites

ROG Xbox Ally X owners can now choose between AMD's FSR upscaler or Microsoft's NPU-powered Auto SR for better performance, though only for docked gaming

Valve on the Steam Machine delays: 'Obviously we're bummed that this is the state of things'

'We undercalled the level of enthusiasm': Apple's Tim Cook says supply is constrained for the MacBook Neo, but 'we could not be happier with how things are going at the moment'

If the RAMpocalypse doesn't price them into oblivion, the next generation of hot handheld gaming PCs could well be Intel-powered

You've heard of putting your graphics card in the oven, but have you heard of putting your entire gaming PC inside an air fryer

Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now

Nvidia RTX 5050 review (Palit Dual edition)

Palit clarifies Galax closure claims were simply a 'miscommunication', and it is 'already working on the next generations' of graphics cards

'In China we have now dropped to zero': CEO Jensen Huang bemoans Nvidia's market share and calls for US to export AI 'like crazy'

First test of new ROG Equalizer cable intended to be overkill for your GPU isn't as clear cut as one might expect

Despite recent reports Galax reassures customers that it has not pulled an EVGA and exited the graphics card market

Modder upgrades their supposedly 'vintage' 2008 ThinkPad with an RTX 4070 Super and I can feel myself crumbling to dust

Nvidia has quietly announced the 12 GB RTX 5070 mobile in a GeForce driver update, of all things

'Feel free to start a laptop company and see what suppliers quote you for GDDR7': Framework vents frustration amid memory crisis

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

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

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Elgato Light Strip Pro review

Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review

Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review

Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review

'Regardless of the type of offer, available capacity is essentially zero right now': SK hynix is reportedly being swamped with 'unprecedented' offers to secure memory chips

'Our demand fulfillment rate is now at a record low' says Samsung as it makes its DRAM 90% more expensive than the previous quarter

Samsung says there are 'no supply chain issues to date' from war in the Middle East but the company is making logistical changes

'This is the first time where I'm seeing no light at the end of the tunnel': How the memory crisis is hitting PC builders

Single-channel DRAM is bad news for PC gaming but depending on what CPU you have, it's not actually as awful as you might think

'Many employees are leaving for SK hynix': 40,000 Samsung workers are marching outside its factories to protest pay levels

Making your own DRAM cells in a garden shed isn't the most practical solution to the RAMpocalypse, but it's still awesome to watch

'We have no choice but to impose a severe punishment': Ex Samsung researcher sentenced to 7 years in prison for leaking DRAM tech to a Chinese competitor

MediaTek is 'cautiously optimistic' that discrete memory pricing will look less gloomy during 2026

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

In my ongoing mission to save as much money on internet as possible, I just found the new cheapest NBN 500 provider for a full year

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The best NBN plans for gaming in 2026

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

If you missed out last year, Superloop is once again offering 1000 Mbps NBN for AU$79 a month

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

If you want a full year's worth of NBN 500 for as little cash and fuss as possible, Dodo is the clear winner at the moment

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

Corsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish

Silverstone FLP02 case review

Thermaltake View 380 WS ARGB review

Lian Li Lancool 217 case review

Corsair 3200D review

Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition case review

My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: 'We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC'

This Redditor has built a stained glass-style panel for their gaming PC with a 'magnificent and luxurious animal' on it and it is indeed magnificent and luxurious

Phanteks XT V3 case review