
Dave James
Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
Latest articles by Dave James

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today
By Dave James last updated
Deals We've scoured the internet for the best deals on gaming monitors, so you don't have to.

Lego's smart new 2x4 Smart Brick packs a custom ASIC, speaker, and synthesiser created by 'an expert team from the worlds of video gaming, computing... and more'
By Dave James published
CES 2026 "You might hear our Smart Brick roaring like a jet plane or flushing like a toilet."

Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years
By Dave James published
CES 2026 "A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."

Nvidia's promising '4K 240 Hz path traced gaming' with DLSS 4.5 but do you want 6x Multi Frame Gen?
By Dave James published
CES 2026 It's convinced the 2nd gen Transformer model is good enough that you will.

'Quite frankly it was missing one thing': Alienware has fixed one of the biggest issues with its Area-51 gaming PC
By Dave James published
CES 2026 The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D is part of the Alienware's CES 2026 party.

Alienware promises it's not 'cutting corners on the things that matter the most' with its new entry-level gaming laptops
By Dave James published
CES 2026 So, lots of RAM then, eh?

Alienware is taking on Razer and Asus with its new ultra slim 'covert' gaming laptop tease
By Dave James published
CES 2026 "It's a little more covert" than your traditional Alienware... like a Dell laptop maybe.

MSI's brilliant new QD-OLED screen fixes one of the biggest issues with OLED gaming monitors
By Dave James published
CES 2026 Fixed front fringing, light absorption, and the best HDR we've seen to date.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
By Dave James published
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.

Razer's little Blade has been my ride-or-die throughout the year and is my absolute favourite gaming laptop of 2025
By Dave James published
Gear of the Year Through thick and thin.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2025
By Dave James published
Gear of the year A whole new generation of graphics cards dropped this year, but which can take the crown?

Well, this year's graphics card launches were a right shitshow, eh?
By Dave James published
Launch malfunction This year saw the worst launch of any GPU generation I can remember in all my 20 years as a tech journo.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptop of 2025
By Dave James published
Gear of the year With a whole new generation of mobile GPUs, and some sleek new designs, this has been a great year for gaming laptops. But who's the winner?

Best cheap gaming laptop deals
By Dave James last updated
Deals Our hand picked list of all the best gaming laptop deals you'll find today.

Cheap graphics card deals this week
By Nick Evanson last updated
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.

Corsair One i600 gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Score: 83% A compact machine with high-end tech in all the right places.

You got the juice now, man. Well, so long as you remember to pick up this half-price charger for all your devices this holiday anyways
By Dave James published
Deal No living with messy cables when they're retractable, eh?

OneXPlayer X1 Air handheld review
By Dave James published
Score: 51% Is it a tablet, is it a handheld gaming PC, is it a laptop... you know where this is going.

Best Cyber Week PC gaming deals 2025: The savings continue as Black Friday fades into distant memory
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Week We're still curating the best deals on gaming PCs, laptops, graphics cards, chairs, and peripherals for you.

Cyber Monday graphics card deals 2025
By Nick Evanson last updated
Cyber Monday Cyber Week's almost over, but there are still plenty of GPU deals around.

Cyber Week SSD deals 2025: The fastest PC storage at the lowest price per GB
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Week Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be receding into the past, but the deals season isn't over just yet.

Cyber Week gaming keyboard, controller, and mouse deals 2025: Majestic mechanicals and righteous rodents
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday The best Cyber Week deals on gaming mice and gaming keyboards from Razer, Corsair, Logitech, Drop and the rest.

Cyber Week gaming headset deals 2025: Giving the gift of great audio this deals season
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Week Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.



