Latest articles by Dave James
Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.
Best graphics cards in 2026: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards
Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.
Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
Portable PC PC gaming has officially gone portable, and these handheld gaming PCs are mighty quick.
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
Take a seat Treat your body to one of the best gaming chairs and sit like a royal on your new throne.
Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks, just to see which is worth your money.
Best gaming PCs in 2026: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.
Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 looks great and all but I'm surprised at just how much extra power it demands from your graphics card
news Looking at them side-by-side, you can see just how much more juice the new transformer model can demand.
RAMpocalypse be damned, you can still bag an RTX 5080 gaming laptop for under $2K with 32 GB RAM, but I'm here to tell you I'd still go for the 16 GB option
Deal Memory capacity breeds compromise, but here's one I'm willing to make.
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'
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
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?
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
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
CES 2026 So, lots of RAM then, eh?
Alienware is taking on Razer and Asus with its new ultra slim 'covert' gaming laptop tease
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
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
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
Gear of the Year Through thick and thin.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2025
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?
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
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?
Corsair One i600 gaming PC review
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
Deal No living with messy cables when they're retractable, eh?
OneXPlayer X1 Air handheld review
Score: 51% Is it a tablet, is it a handheld gaming PC, is it a laptop... you know where this is going.
