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
This is the spiritual successor to the best graphics card ever made
By Dave James published
News Galax has listed a single slot beauty on its China pages, and I really want to get my hands on one.
'The next thing we're working on moving forward is Steam Deck 2,' but Valve has yet to see silicon offering the leap it's looking for
By Dave James published
News "That's not going to happen next year or the year after that. It's probably going to be more than that."
SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck'
By Dave James published
News "Oh, man, it's very high on our list."
Valve knows people will jam the shiny new OLED panel into old Steam Decks 'but it's probably not going to go well'
By Dave James published
news It says Steam Deck OLED "parts are not swappable" with the original LCD version.
Valve is committed to bringing Steam Deck OLED 'battery life improvements to the LCD models as well'
By Dave James published
news A post-launch BIOS update will see all the firmware and software improvements of the new version brought to the original Steam Deck.
Steam Deck OLED vs Steam Deck LCD: what's inside
By Dave James published
Innards We've cracked open both the new Steam Deck OLED and its OG LCD version to see what's change. Spoiler, it's a lot.
Valve just unveiled 'the definitive first generation Steam Deck' with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU
By Dave James published
news The more efficient HDR panel, bigger battery, and 6nm APU all add up to between 30 - 50% longer game time.
Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
LOQ'd not loaded Lenovo's budget-oriented LOQ feels like a rare miss from the company's laptop makers.
Powerful $750 gaming laptops to OLED gaming monitors to $48 1TB SSDs: these are the top ten early Black Friday deals this week
By Dave James published
Deals We've been digging through the best PC gaming deals this side of Black Friday.
Yaaas, AMD's FSR 2.2 has finally been patched into Baldur's Gate 3
By Dave James published
news I am in handheld gaming PC heaven right now.
It's not Prime Day or Black Friday but this RTX 4060 Ti gaming PC is the price of a discounted RTX 4060 system right now
By Dave James published
Deal Less than $900 for a bona fide gaming PC.
Amazon Big Deal Days PC gaming deals
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day Deals The second Prime Day of the year is done, but there are still some deals lingering around like the sweet smell of capitalism.
Amazon Prime Day gaming PC deals
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day Deals There are always some tasty gaming PC deals on the table.
Psst, the best Prime Day gaming monitor deal is still live: Alienware's glossy OLED has never been cheaper
By Dave James last updated
deal At $800, this superb OLED gaming monitor is the same price it was discounted at for Prime Day, and a great deal versus some other OLED panels.
Amazon Big Deal Days gaming laptop deals
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day Deals The full Big Deal Days schtick over, but there are still a surprising number of laptop deals across all the big retailers.
Prime Day live blog: the best Big Deal Days PC gaming deals still around today
By Dave James last updated
Still live! It's the second day of Amazon's Fall Prime Day event, but with every other retailer jumping on board the discounts aren't just going to die at midnight.
The best Fall Prime Day gaming laptop deals are these heavily discounted RTX 4080 and RTX 4060 Lenovo Legion machines and neither are from Amazon
By Dave James published
Deal Lenovo has it sewn up at the top-end, with its RTX 4080-powered beast and at the budget end with an AMD Ryzen and RTX 4060 Legion Slim.
The best Fall Prime Day gaming laptop deals under $1,500 I wish I had the money to buy
By Dave James published
Deal Just here fantasizing about what I'd do today if I had a chunk of cash just drop into my lap...
The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2023 PC Gamer's annual list of the best games you can play on PC.
The best gaming chair is finally cheaper than Secretlab's store in Amazon's Fall Prime Day deals
By Dave James published
Deal One of the biggest deals of its Big Deal Days, Amazon has secured an exclusive deal that makes the Titan Evo cheaper outside of Secretlab itself.
This is the cheapest you'll get a 16GB graphics card for right now thanks to these Fall Prime Day shenanigans, probably by $100
By Dave James published
Deal Okay, it's thanks to Newegg's FantasTech II sale, too, but I can't bring myself to reference that silly name in a headline.
Fall Prime Day hasn't even started but this RTX 4080 gaming laptop is already the best deal of the week
By Dave James published
Deal It's our pick as the best gaming laptop, and it's $100 cheaper than it was when it was heavily discounted back in the Summer.
Framework 13 (2023) AMD mainboard review
By Dave James published
It works First you get style, then you get the customisation, then you get the gaming power.
You can already hack Ray Reconstruction into Cyberpunk 2077 without the path tracing limitation, but Nvidia promises to open it up officially soon
By Dave James published
News Ray Reconstruction makes Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely stunning, but it can only be enabled with path tracing, or via some hacks.