Latest articles by Dave James
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.
AMD RX 9070 XT vs Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti: This is 2025's graphics card battle royale
Which of the modern graphics cards should you be dropping into your PC?
To celebrate World Back Up day allow me to present to you a 2 TB SSD for under 5 cents per GB
Deal If you want MOAR STORAGE, how about 4 TB for just over 5 cents per GB?
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 gaming laptop review
Chomk Anachronistic gaming laptop style with RTX 5090-topping performance.
The focus on GPU efficiency over fps means this year's gaming laptops are capable of something they've never been good at
Big boi gaming laptops with genuine gaming battery life was not what I expected from the class of '25.
Razer Blade 16 (2025) gaming laptop review
Sharper than ever Simply the best gaming laptop I've ever used. So, how will Asus respond this time?
Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile tested: The needle hasn't moved on performance but this is the first time I'd consider ditching my desktop for a gaming laptop
With Nvidia's focus on efficiency over raw performance gains there will be pushback, but this is the mobile gaming experience I've been after.
Colorful iGame RTX 5070 Ti Vulcan OC review
Too much, man Pinning the moniker of the god of fire to an overclocked graphics card has gone about as well as you might expect.
XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 OC graphics card review
Price hike With $100 tacked onto the initial $549 price tag—at least—the RX 9070 becomes a hard card to love.
MSI RTX 5090 Suprim SOC graphics card review
Monster, monster The biggest, most powerful consumer graphics card I've ever jammed into our test rig, but not the RTX 5090 I would recommend.
Nvidia says it's sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I'd bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition
news So, combined it sold more of four different GPUs than a single $1,600 card.
AMD Radeon RX 9070-series launch day live: The promise of a ton of reference priced stock is a tantalising one but likely won't last long
Live! AMD's impressive new cards are out today, and have had since January to shore up stock in the channel, and we'll be keeping an eye on how that pans out.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review
Banger AMD's walking the walk on pricing and performance, it's now up to the AIBs to not let the side down.
AMD says its ghostly 'Toyshop tech demo is truly not reflective' of what FSR4 will look like when it ships with the RDNA 4 cards this week
News There are a lot of ghosting issues in AMD's new path tracing demo, and it's got a few people concerned.
Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition review
Ambush The AMD ambush ought to prompt a radical rethink of the green team's pricing for a card which could, and maybe should have been the RTX 5060.
Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek at my unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K
Sneak peek Yes, that's the magic of Multi Frame Generation for you, and yes there is considerable competition on the horizon. But it's looking good, at least.
Best graphics card for laptops in 2025: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop
Go mobile Helping you pick the right graphics silicon for your next laptop purchase.
Framework takes aim at 'janky, locked-down, disposable, underpowered, and frankly, boring' entry-level laptops with its new 12-inch touchscreen
News "This is a defining product for us, and we can't wait for you to try it."
