
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

Corsair's Platform:4 has got a real deep discount on the best-looking, compact gaming desk you can buy
By Dave James published
Deal If you're after a top-quality compact desk, this beautiful and beautifully smooth desk is a banger.

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review
By Dave James published
Score: 82% Corsair's buffed the rough edges off its first desk, and some of the width too, creating the best compact gaming desk you can buy.

It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect
By Dave James published
Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.

Framework Desktop PC review
By Dave James published
Score: 77% Not a gaming rig, but a hell of an AI PC.

Corsair Vengeance a7500 gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Score: 87% The Vengeance line once more proves itself some of the best gaming PCs, even if it can't yoink the latest and greatest Corsair gear out the warehouse.

Razer BlackShark V3 gaming headset review
By Dave James published
Score: 91% Finally, a wireless headset to topple the all-conquering Cloud Alpha.

Razer BlackShark V3 Pro review
By Dave James published
Score: 79% Great audio and ANC comes at a frustrating cost.

Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro gaming mouse review
By Dave James published
Score: 90% For the budding professional gamer, the new DeathAdder has everything you could want. For everyone else it might be a stretch.

Alienware Area-51 gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Score: 81% The most impressed I've been with a modern Alienware PC in years.

The best audiophile headphones for gaming in 2025: my top recommendations for the best cans money can buy
By Dave James last updated
Audiophile Immerse yourself in your games with the best audiophile headphones for gaming.

Prime Day gaming deals live: The end is nigh, but as a lifelong PC gaming expert, I'm handpicking the very best Prime Day deals still live
By Dave James last updated
Live We're into the home stretch here on Prime Day Episode 4: A New Hope.

If you'd told me RTX 50-series gaming laptops would deliver the best Prime Day deals I would have laughed in your stupid face. And yet here we are at the end...
By Andy Edser published
Prime Day ...with gaming laptop deals at almost every price point.

Pour one out for the stunning RTX 5080 gaming laptop deal that is now merely a good one. I mean, it remains the cheapest RTX 5080 notebook you'll find, but still 🥲
By Jeremy Laird published
Prime Day HP's Omen Max 16 is the laptop in question and it's still significantly cheaper than any other RTX 5080 gaming notebook.

Prime Day deals live: I'm bringing you the perfect PC gaming impulse buys still available as these Prime Days draw to a close
By Dave James last updated
Live If you don't want to spend a ton of cash there are still some great ways to upgrade your PC gaming setup on a budget.

For as little as $28 these 25-piece electric screwdrivers are a must for your Prime Day PC building toolkit
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day Upgrade your desktop AND your tool belt.

To celebrate the announcement of the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro, the old best gaming mouse is now down to its lowest ever price for Prime Day
By Dave James published
Prime Day The king is cheap, hail to the king.

Get a cracking deal this Amazon Prime Day on the best of the best from our techie tier list
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day The cream of the crop is all the sweeter at a cut price.

You'll never have to uninstall a game again* because at $0.05 per GB these Prime Day SSDs are the solution to all your storage woes
By Dave James published
Prime Day *I mean, if it's rubbish and you just want to rage-uninstall I'll accept that.

I would take this Prime Day Razer gaming laptop deal over literally any other right now
By Dave James published
Prime Day With $400 knocked off the recently released Blade 14, I think this is the best gaming laptop deal around today.

Tell us what you're buying, or agonizing over this Prime Day week... we'll go first
By Dave James published
Prime Day The PC Gamer team has got its sights set on some tasty Prime Day deals.

One of the best gaming chairs has just dropped to its lowest ever price at $147: Corsair's TC100 is what Prime Day deals are all about
By James Bentley published
Prime Day $123 off for Prime Members makes this a reason to join the gang.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2025) gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Score: 83% Still a great compact gaming laptop, but the grating fan noise and sharper Blade 14 relegate it into second place.

Razer Blade 14 (2025) gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Score: 86% The 2025 update for Razer's micro machine has pretty much made it my ideal gaming laptop.
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