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

By Dave James Published
CES 2026 "It's a little more covert" than your traditional Alienware... like a Dell laptop maybe.

By Dave James Published
CES 2026 The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D is part of the Alienware's CES 2026 party.

By Dave James Published
CES 2026 Fixed front fringing, light absorption, and the best HDR we've seen to date.

By Dave James Published
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.

By Dave James Published
Gear of the Year Through thick and thin.

By Dave James Published
Gear of the year A whole new generation of graphics cards dropped this year, but which can take the crown?

By Dave James Published
Launch malfunction This year saw the worst launch of any GPU generation I can remember in all my 20 years as a tech journo.

By Dave James Published
Gear of the year With a whole new generation of mobile GPUs, and some sleek new designs, this has been a great year for gaming laptops. But who's the winner?

By Dave James Published
Score: 83% A compact machine with high-end tech in all the right places.

By Dave James Published
Deal No living with messy cables when they're retractable, eh?

By Dave James Published
Score: 51% Is it a tablet, is it a handheld gaming PC, is it a laptop... you know where this is going.

By Dave James Last updated
Cyber Week We're still curating the best deals on gaming PCs, laptops, graphics cards, chairs, and peripherals for you.

By Nick Evanson Last updated
Cyber Monday Cyber Week's almost over, but there are still plenty of GPU deals around.

By Dave James Last updated
Cyber Week Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be receding into the past, but the deals season isn't over just yet.

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Cyber Monday The best Cyber Week deals on gaming mice and gaming keyboards from Razer, Corsair, Logitech, Drop and the rest.

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Cyber Week Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale.

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Cyber Week The display deals are never really over, as it's now time for Cyber Week.

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Cyber Monday We're still finding some great prices on gaming laptops of all shapes and sizes.

By Dave James Published
Cyber Week There are still some great gift ideas out there... just sayin'.

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Live 📎Looks like you're searching for great deals. Would you like help?📎

By Sean Martin Last updated
Live It's almost the most wonderful time of the year, and now is a great chance to bag some stocking fillers for the PC gamers you love. Including yourself, obvs.

By Dave James Published
Cyber Monday And one extra for luck going into my 21st year, because my career can now legally drink.

By Dave James Published
Cyber Monday I mean, I'm not going to list a mattress even if it's 99% off, am I?
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