Latest articles by Dave James
Audeze's Summer B-Stock sale might come with some 'minor cosmetic blemishes' but the astounding Maxwell headset will still sound incredible
deal The Audeze Maxwell is the best high-end headset you can buy, with wireless connectivity and planar magnetic drivers which just sound 🥰.
Best Memorial Day PC gaming deals in 2025
Deals Memorial Day is coming and with it the first big sales event of the year.
Best curved monitors for gaming in 2025: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of
Bendy Immerse yourself to the max with these vision-enclosing panels.
It's been on sale for 3 years, but the HyperX Cloud Alpha is still the best wireless headset and its got itself a Memorial Day discount
Deal It's only ever been $10 cheaper by my reckoning.
I'm all-in for this all-AMD gaming PC, sporting the best gaming CPU of last generation, the mighty RX 9070 XT, and a $400 price cut
Deal That is a powerful CPU/GPU combo and means you can be safe in the knowledge you're rocking its best chips from the last two AMD generations.
Nvidia RTX 5060 review live: looks like the 8 GB of VRAM isn't the biggest issue the new card has to face
Live! You're going to learn how the new Nvidia GPU performs alongside me, isn't that exciting? No? Just me then.
Best gaming desk in 2025: 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 CPU for gaming in 2025: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
This MSI machine is the cheapest way to get a great RTX 5080 gaming laptop right now and it's stonkingly quick for the cash
Deal 240 Hz, RTX 5080, $2,275? Yep, I'll take it.
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop review
Powa The most performant gaming laptop of this generation, and RTX 5090 be damned.
Best 14-inch gaming laptop in 2025: The top compact gaming laptops I've held in these hands
Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.
Best 4K gaming monitors in 2025: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.
Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we're looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console
News Want to literally see inside the Switch 2's processor?
This is the first big discount I've found on RTX 50-series gaming laptops, and it's a version of one I've enjoyed testing myself
The MSI Vector 16 HX AI is a quality machine and this RTX 5070 Ti spec looks super solid for its $400 discount.
Nvidia announces RTX 5060 release date of May 19 for both the $299 desktop GPU and $1,099 gaming laptops
news The budget graphics silicon is hitting just before Computex... where another budget GPU beckons.
MSI Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop review
Gruntwork A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.
The best audiophile headphones for gaming in 2025: my top recommendations for the best cans money can buy
Audiophile Immerse yourself in your games with the best audiophile headphones for gaming.
Best PC joysticks in 2025: these are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.
Oblivion struggling to nail 60 fps on my RTX 5090 was not on my 2025 bingo card, but without frame gen Oblivion Remastered's top settings bring the card to its knees
Struggle pug Sticking everything on Ultra with a UE5 game was always going to be thus, I guess.
Framework 13 AMD AI 300-series review
Morals vs your wallet The finest Framework around.
Here are the Oblivion Remastered system specs: 'More friendly to gamers with modern hardware' and Steam Deck Verified
News There's Lumen software and hardware ray tracing, so no RTX actually required.
Origin Neuron gaming PC review
Not so Origin-inal My first taste of an Origin gaming PC isn't so sweet as I'd hoped.
Razer has pulled the pricing and pre-order pages for its new Blade laptops and I think it's pretty obvious what's happening here
news Razer's taken down laptop pricing, new tariffs will make tech pricing higher, 2+2=4.
