Dave James

Still sucks In some ways, yes, in a lot of ways, oh hell no.

Beige You could argue that there have been advances at the highest end of the market, but that's of zero relevance to the vast majority of PC gamers.

Gear of the Year System building is back, but which motherboards showed up with the goods this past year?

Numbers Every. Single. One.

AI FAM And I haven't burned the house down yet.

Gear of the year There have been new GPUs, affordable GPUs, and even actually available GPUs. What a year?!

90+ All the top tech to hit the magic 90% mark in our rigorous testing as well as the ones which fell waaaaaay short.

Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale right now.

Buying a new graphics card can be a minefield, so we're on hand to guide you in what actually is a good GPU deal this year.

With new machines launching next year, retailers are offering big discounts on still great gaming laptops today.

There are still Cyber Monday deals on prebuilt PCs out there, and you'll find the best ones here.

It's a fact: games load faster from an SSD.

As Cyber Monday becomes Regular Tuesday, the deals aren't stopping, so we're still here curating the hell out of them.

Black Friday isn't the end of the deals season, the discounts will keep on rolling on through Cyber Monday and into Cyber Week.