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Black Friday gaming deals live - I'm digging out the hottest PC gaming tech deals because that's how I always wanted to start my 21st year in the job
Live My professional career is now old enough to drink. Bar tender! Don Julio, if you will.
The best Black Friday stocking filler deals to flesh out your Christmas shopping for the PC gamer in your life. And yes, that can include you, too
Live It's a great time to get your Christmas shopping done, so here's our pick of the best low-cost PC gaming deals.
Black Friday live: I'm picking my way through the best gaming PC, laptop, GPU, SSD, and PC tech deals
Live It's Black Friday week now. I call it the dealvalanche.
I've left my fingerprints on each of these RTX 5080 gaming laptops, and I think they're the best Black Friday has to offer
Black Friday Having spent a lot of time testing gaming laptops this year, I can vouch for these picks.
The best gaming keyboards we've reviewed in 2025 so far
Here are the top 10 gaming keyboards we've tested ourselves.
The best gaming laptops we've reviewed in 2025 so far
Top tech These are the top 10 gaming laptops we've benchmarked and tested ourselves.
Black Friday gaming PC deals: If you're after the best prices for rigs with the latest Nvidia graphics cards inside, we've got you
Black Friday Here are the best prices for gaming PCs sporting each of the latest Nvidia RTX Blackwell GPUs.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.
Cloudflare goes down, but a fix is in and ChatGPT and X are back online again
Live This is just weeks after the AWS outage.
We should all just take a moment to appreciate Valve announcing new Steam hardware in 2025 and NOT ONCE MENTIONING AI
AI-free Refreshing, ain't it?
Best PC joysticks in 2026: These are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.
Valve just quietly redefined what PC gaming can be all while an increasingly delusional Microsoft desperately tries to tell everyone their PC is an Xbox now
MS no more Valve has been loosening a desperate Microsoft's grip on PC gaming one gnarled finger at a time.
Framework 16 (RTX 5070 upgrade) gaming laptop review
Score: 73% I'm happy to see you, but buddy, you're out of my league.
The kit filter: The perfect parts for building your first gaming PC
These are the components we think offer the best bang for buck today.
Razer's knocked $900 off the price of the glorious Blade 14 gaming laptop, cementing its place as the object of my technological desires
Deal Beating the Asus Zephyrus G14 on style, performance, and now pricing, too.
The best PC cases in 2026: These are the chassis I'd use for my next gaming build
Best case You'll want the best PC case if you're building your perfect gaming PC.
The kit filter: We've tracked down the gear pro-gamers use to git gud
All the kit to help you game like a professional.
Asus ROG Xbox Ally X handheld gaming PC review
Score: 84% Expensive, and one of the best handheld gaming PCs, but c'mon, Microsoft, this is no Xbox.
Now it's in my hands the new Xbox Ally X is a far better handheld than I expected, but it's still got a lot of work to do to convince me it's a) worth $1,000 or b) that it's an Xbox
ROGer It's seriously quiet, real fast, and the Windows handheld experience mostly works. Mostly. But that price...
Amazon October Prime Day gaming laptop deals
Prime Day Deals October Prime Day might have finished but some of its deals are still flowing.
Best October Prime Day Deals Live — The best PC gaming hardware deals still live
Prime Day live We're ploughing on through the Big Deal Days sales, and there are still impressive discounts on GPUs, gaming laptops, PCs, SSDs, and monitors.
This remains the best-value gaming laptop deal I've seen over Prime Day and I actually can't believe it's still available to buy
Deal Egregious memory config cardinal sin aside, this is a great little gaming laptop.
Weirdly, Walmart is one of the best places to shop for Prime Day gaming PC deals
Prime Day Who woulda thought it?
