Andy Edser
Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't. After spending over 15 years in the production industry overseeing a variety of live and recorded projects, he started writing his own PC hardware blog for a year in the hope that people might send him things. Sometimes they did.
Now working as a hardware writer for PC Gamer, Andy can be found quietly muttering to himself and drawing diagrams with his hands in thin air. It's best to leave him to it.
Latest articles by Andy Edser
3M has announced a solar charging headset, so when do we get gaming peripherals with near infinite battery life?
By Andy Edser published
CES 2024 The implementation here is a little chunky, but surely we can't be that far away from wireless gaming headsets that never need to see a charging cable again.
The Xbox Series S two-slice toaster is here and my body is b-ready
By Andy Edser published
news Crumbs.
Asus teases a new ZenBook Duo reveal for CES 2024 and it looks like that second screen is going full-size OLED
By Andy Edser published
CES 2024 Bigger is better it seems, as the new Duo looks to be going all out on full-size features.
LG is set to unveil a tube-driven transparent OLED 'DukeBox' at CES and be still my beating heart
By Andy Edser published
news It sure is purty, but given all that glass practicality may stand in the way of beauty.
AI chatbots trained to jailbreak other chatbots, as the AI war slowly but surely begins
By Andy Edser published
news Yep, it sure is turtles all the way down.
The PC Gamer tech team's New Year's resolutions
By Nick Evanson published
Promises, promises What do you mean? Of course we'll stick to them!
The PC Gamer Needlessly Terrible Hardware Naming Awards 2023: Our favourite awful names for otherwise reasonable products
By Andy Edser published
Awful It's award season here at PC Gamer, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point out some of the very best terrible, awful, no-good product names we've seen.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023: The winners
By Dave James published
The winners All the winners from the best tech released and tested in the past 12 months of PC gaming.
What we want to see from PC gaming tech in 2024
By Dave James published
Heart's desire The past 12 months haven't been the most inspiring, so join us in hoping for better from the year ahead.
Reasons why I love Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun—you are Space Marine, Space Marine go stomp, chaos men explode
By Andy Edser published
Sometimes all it takes is some big stompy boots and a very large gun.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best microphone of 2023
By Andy Edser published
Gear of the year Whether it's streaming, podcasting or just sounding really good in your next meeting, these three candidates are our top contenders for audio capture greatness.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best SSDs of 2023
By Andy Edser published
Gear of the year Big storage sizes and great performance for less was the talk of the town in 2023.
The AMD RX 7800 XT might not have set the world on fire this year, but for me it's been nothing but a pleasure
By Andy Edser published
Gear of the Year There are bigger and there are better, but in terms of sheer bang for my actual buck, my personal pick this year has to be my new GPU.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2023
By Andy Edser published
Gear of the year It's been a bit of a lean year for big GPU releases, but that doesn't mean there aren't some great candidates for our graphics card of the year.
Are the best GPUs really more expensive than they were when I was young, or am I remembering a past that never was?
By Andy Edser published
Nostalgia or Not? It's often said that top performing GPUs are pricier now than they've ever been, but is that really the case? I decided to investigate.
Quersus Icos 1.1 gaming chair review
By Andy Edser published
spinetingling It's firm but fair, this substantial chair, but at this price I was expecting a bit more luxury.
At $360 this is the cheapest RTX 4060 Ti we've seen, but a $400 RX 7700 XT is here to make your GPU purchase choice that bit tougher
By Andy Edser published
deal A battle of the mainstream Nvidia and AMD cards must commence, but who shall emerge the champion in this boxing match between two mid-rangers?
Microsoft confirms latest Windows update breaks Wi-Fi on some public, education, and enterprise networks
By Andy Edser published
news Another Windows 11 update tale of woe, although this one seems to be affecting students and enterprise networks specifically.
This startup news channel uses AI presenters and some genuinely impressive tech, but it sure is giving me the heebie-jeebies
By Andy Edser published
news If you thought regular newscasters looked and sounded a bit robotic, wait till you see these.
The last minute PC Gaming holiday gift guide
By Andy Edser published
deal Looking to treat the PC Gamer in your life, or perhaps grab a little something for yourself? We cover all our favorite gift recommendations right here.
PC gaming's biggest disappointments of 2023
By Robin Valentine published
LAME OF THE YEAR Let me down gently.
No more fans: Phison's new PCIe Gen 5 controller sacrifices raw SSD speed in the name of silence
By Andy Edser published
news The new E31T controller promises mainstream PCIe 5.0 SSDs that will still outperform the previous gen but without the need for silly active cooling.
Windows 11 23H2 update reportedly slows down gaming performance for some but there does seem to be a somewhat complicated fix
By Andy Edser published
news Users report a fairly significant performance drop, but the fix remains more than a little involved for now.