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

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Live My professional career is now old enough to drink. Bar tender! Don Julio, if you will.

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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.

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Live It's Black Friday week now. I call it the dealvalanche.

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Black Friday Having spent a lot of time testing gaming laptops this year, I can vouch for these picks.

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Here are the top 10 gaming keyboards we've tested ourselves.

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Top tech These are the top 10 gaming laptops we've benchmarked and tested ourselves.

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Black Friday Here are the best prices for gaming PCs sporting each of the latest Nvidia RTX Blackwell GPUs.

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Live This is just weeks after the AWS outage.

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AI-free Refreshing, ain't it?

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Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.

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MS no more Valve has been loosening a desperate Microsoft's grip on PC gaming one gnarled finger at a time.

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Score: 73% I'm happy to see you, but buddy, you're out of my league.

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These are the components we think offer the best bang for buck today.

By Dave James Published
Deal Beating the Asus Zephyrus G14 on style, performance, and now pricing, too.

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All the kit to help you game like a professional.

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Score: 84% Expensive, and one of the best handheld gaming PCs, but c'mon, Microsoft, this is no Xbox.

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ROGer It's seriously quiet, real fast, and the Windows handheld experience mostly works. Mostly. But that price...

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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.

By Dave James Published
Deal Egregious memory config cardinal sin aside, this is a great little gaming laptop.

By Dave James Published
Prime Day Who woulda thought it?

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Precisely why? I can't help but feel this is more pro-gamer placebo than anything else.

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Deal Get 'em while they're vaguely affordable.

By Dave James Published
So. Many. Buttons The Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE isn't just a pretty facia of many, many buttons.
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