Latest articles by Andy Edser
Graphics card prices are totally ridiculous and it's creating a barrier to entry that makes me fear for the future of PC gaming
Gripes week The haves, the have nots, and you.
Best gaming headsets in 2025: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.
It's time to get over the brand snobbery because this $26 Amazon Basics model is the best budget microphone you can buy today
Budget banger Seriously, it's that good.
Best microphone for gaming in 2025: from streaming to podcast mics, these are my top picks
Mouth Noises Make your voice heard with the best microphones for streaming and gaming.
Amazon Basics USB condenser microphone review
Score: 86% It's really hard to argue with this sort of audio quality for the price.
I think this $26 Amazon Basics USB desktop microphone should make more expensive models a little nervous
Budget or bust It sounds surprisingly good for the cash, and no one's happier about that than me.
Nacon Rig 900 Max HS review
Score: 59% For this sort of price, I was expecting much more.
Glorious has fixed the main issues I had with this super-speedy 8K gaming mouse and at $55 I reckon it's now a bit of a bargain
Deal Less than half the price I reviewed it for? Yep, works for me.
Financial Times report suggests chip smugglers shifted an alleged $1 billion worth of Nvidia's AI chips to China over the course of 3 months while stricter US export controls were in effect
News "There is no evidence that [Nvidia] is involved in, or has knowledge of, its restricted products being sold to China."
'You can't raw dog it' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'If you're not using AI, you're going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI'
News 'I'll be sure to go home and tell people, you're not gonna raw dog this.'
Asus says 'all issues have been resolved' regarding Armoury Crate, MyAsus, and router vulnerabilities, so I'd jump on those updates now if you were putting them off
News You've definitely updated your Asus gear recently, yes?
AMD's mighty 96-core Threadripper Pro has been overclocked with a car radiator and some big ol' beefy fans, and I am remarkably satisfied
News For those who ever wondered if car parts had a place in their rig.
Palmer Luckey wants to know if you'd buy a 'Made in America' computer for 20% more than 'Chinese-manufactured options from Apple'
News Also, what's your favourite colour, and how've you been getting on recently?
'We should change the name' Trump says of artificial intelligence: 'I actually mean that, I don't like anything that's artificial'
News 'So could we straighten that out, please? It's not artificial, it's genius.'
'You're going to need more electricity than any human beings ever... Jensen, you're gonna have to explain that to me someday' says Trump to Nvidia's CEO as he rolls out his AI expansion plan
News 'Double what we produce right now for everything, right?'
Trump's AI action plan claims to chart 'a decisive course to cement US dominance in artificial intelligence'
News "We are moving with urgency to make this vision a reality."
Elon Musk's xAI is reportedly trying to borrow $12,000,000,000 for even more Nvidia GPUs, an impulse all PC gamers can truly understand
News I've checked down the back of the sofa, and I'm not sure I can cover it.
Microsoft confirms SharePoint vulnerabilities have been exploited by suspected Chinese hackers, as reports indicate the US Nuclear Security Administration may have been among those compromised
News 'Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing.'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks some jobs will be 'totally, totally gone' thanks to AI, but he still wouldn't trust ChatGPT with his 'medical fate'
News 'Maybe I'm a dinosaur here.'
A mysterious crypto account bought $54,000 worth of bitcoin in 2011 and sold it all for $9.6 billion this week, which means they can now afford one Big Mac a day for 4,971,897 years
News How's your week going?
I reckon this RTX 4070-equipped 14-inch gaming laptop is the unsung star of our deals pages, so let's give it some time in the sun
Deal Portable, powerful, cheap. What's not to like?
This incredibly frustrating metronome 'will never, ever, tick exactly once per second' in order to thwart the goals of Hackaday's One Hertz Challenge
News Oh you beautiful, hateful machine.
'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
News 'You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it.'
