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HP has smushed together the HyperX and Omen brands to create its new HyperX Omen range of gaming laptops, and I'm over here playing spot the difference
CES 2026 All in a name, as they say.
HyperX gaming monitors are a thing now, and HP says this 34-inch QD-OLED model has next-gen V-Stripe tech to banish text fringing
CES 2026 Begone, foul fuzz.
MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently
CES 2026 Still, if you're going all in on an RTX 5090, why not turn everything up to 11?
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming microphone of 2025
Gear of the year Join me for a look back at the microphone movers of 2025.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headset of 2025
Gear of the year It's been a helluva year for gaming headsets, but which of our three contenders will take the ultimate prize?
The Fractal Design Scape feels like a gaming headset from the future, which makes it the best thing I've tested in 2035. I mean, this year
Gear of the Year I've seen the light, and I don't want to go back.
PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby
Hard times Money, money, money.
Avowed didn't rewrite the RPG rulebook in 2025, but it still gave me some of my biggest gaming 'wow' moments of the year
🏆 Call me shallow if you must. In fact, I encourage it.
Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the 'confidential computing capabilities' of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report
News GPU, where are you?
Good gaming laptop deals are tough to find right now, but you can still pick up this beastly RTX 5080 machine with a $1,300 discount
Deal Hello, what are you still doing here?
The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I'm so here for it
News Let's get ready tooooooo... spreadsheet.
This Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses detector helpfully lights up the word 'glasshole' when the specs are nearby, just so we're all aware of exactly what we're dealing with
News Also, nice hat.
'I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit': Sam Altman calls for a 'code red' alert at OpenAI as Google's Gemini 3 gives it a scare
News I assume it was followed by a siren, an exploding command console, and Klingons off the starboard bow.
My favorite sub-$1,000 OLED gaming laptop deal has returned from the dead this Cyber Week because it's a stone cold badass
Cyber Week I should have expected no less.
If you bought a new graphics card in the sales, it's my solemn duty to remind you to consider upgrading your power supply with one of these three Cyber Monday deals
Cyber Monday Power matters.
Two of the best gaming keyboards with the worst naming schemes are on sale this Cyber Monday and I think that's neat
Cyber Monday I'd happily rock either, if I could spell them correctly.
Despite the name, it's the exact opposite of a sex thing: The Playseat Challenge racing chair is down to $179 this Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday A sim racing throne you'll want to use on your own.
This MSI RTX 5070 is not as cheap as it was yesterday but it's still the most affordable RTX 5070 Cyber Monday deal going
Cyber Monday It's all relative, isn't it?
Alienware has knocked it straight out the park with this beastly $1,680 RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC deal this Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday I'll go UFO, why not.
You can pick up a silly-wide 49-inch gaming monitor from $500 this Cyber Monday if you've got the mega-sized desk to handle it
Cyber Monday Ultrawiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide.
I'm calling it, these are the only three sub-$1,000 Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals I would buy with my own hard-earned cash
Cyber Monday Happily so, in fact.
No, my eyes do not deceive me, this really is an RTX 5060 gaming laptop with a monstrous 32-thread AMD CPU hiding in the Cyber Monday sales for just $950
Cyber Monday It's a bit of a looker, too
