Latest articles by Dave James
There is only one PC gaming peripheral that needs to be wireless and thankfully there are Cyber Monday wireless gaming headset deals on the three best cans around
Deal These are PC Gamer's favorite wireless gaming headsets and they're all on offer right now.
You're going to have to work pretty damned hard to convince me there's a better Cyber Monday gaming keyboard deal than the now-$40 keeb I use every day
Deal It's our favorite budget keyboard and it's now cheaper than ever for everyone.
Yes, I'm still picking out the best Black Friday gaming deals throughout the weekend because my near 20-years as a PC tech journo have locked me into this gilded cage
Live You're welcome.
Sadly, the cheapest way to buy an RTX 4090 right now is with this horribly cynical Black Friday GPU deal combo which makes you pay to dispose of an old card Newegg doesn't want anymore
Deal We live in some truly bizarre times.
Look who's back, it's Alienware with the best Black Friday gaming PC deal of the week and the cheapest RTX 4070 Ti Super rig we've found
Deal It was a stellar deal over the October Prime Day sale, and Alienware has resurrected the $600 discount once more.
Velocity Micro Raptor ES40 gaming PC review
Smol A great compact gaming PC more than able to mix it with the big bois.
Lenovo Legion Tower 5i gaming PC review
Simple things A great entry-level gaming PC and a solid buy for 1080p gaming.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor
Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...
AMD just took the one thing Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs had going for them and slapped it right out of their hands
News Near 50% higher frame rates AND cooler AND lower power. Ouch.
Nvidia's upgrading GeForce Now's $10 tier with 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, but the only extra Ultimate users get is a new 100-hour play limit
news With a market value of well over $3,000,000,000,000, you'd think it could have kept pricing the same without introducing a blanket time limit.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D may have just launched, but AMD doesn't expect an end of life announcement for the old 7800X3D 'anytime in the near future' and 'would expect it in the market for a while'
The king isn't quite dead, but long live the king.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU review
Underslung The picking of the best gaming CPU might just be a little more nuanced this time around.
Lemokey G1 wireless gaming mouse review
Little squeaker A very Keychron wireless gaming mouse: Affordable, simple, and feature-rich.
Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Edition gaming chair review
Peak Secretlab What price unprecedented comfort?
The bloated tyranny of two-factor authentication is ruining my online existence. There has to be a better way
Who am I? Why won't you remember me?!
Asus TUF A14 gaming laptop review
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Nvidia RTX 4060 (100 W) | 16 GB LPDDR5x-7500 | 1 TB SSD | $1499 | £1479
Valve says its 'not really fair to your customers' to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it's waiting 'for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life'
News Valve may not be creating yearly iterations of the Steam Deck, but it's having to give the same answer every year.
AMD's spoiling Intel's Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of 'next-gen gaming' X3D chips arriving November 7
Kicking a lump of silicon while it's down.
There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers
Gen-Hsun? The current stream of gen-AI game videos teases a future where the rendering power of your GPU barely matters, it's the built-in AI chops which matter.
After 20 years in the business and too many Prime Days to mention these are my favorite Big Deal Days PC gaming deals
Deals I'm picking my absolute favorite Prime Day deals from across Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, Walmart, B&H and the rest.
1440p is the absolute gaming sweet spot [fight me] and this $150 Prime Day gaming monitor deal is great value, but for just $6.77 more another cheap screen has my heart
Deals No Prime membership required to bag this 1440p Acer Nitro monitor for a great price, but the ASRock is far brighter.
Prime members can bag the cheapest 34-inch LG ultrawide I've ever seen. The damned thing's just $237 right now
Deals If you're in Jeff's Amazon gang you've got dibs on a mighty fine wide-boi gaming monitor.
With its healthy price drop, this is the affordable 4K OLED gaming monitor I'd buy this Prime Day
Deals The MSI MAG 321UP has pared back some unnecessary specs and features to leave a stunning 32-inch 4K OLED gaming panel that's just $760.
