Latest articles by Jacob Fox
QPAD Flux 65 Model 5 review
Score: 87% QPAD re-enters the market with a wonderful little clacker.
Best gaming mouse in 2026: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.
Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.
Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
Portable PC PC gaming has officially gone portable, and these handheld gaming PCs are mighty quick.
Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks, just to see which is worth your money.
Explainer: The RAMpocalypse is making memory, SSDs, and even GPUs much more expensive, and it's all down to AI
Memory blues Here's all we know about skyrocketing memory prices and what's causing it.
CES 2026 might have been a damp squib in many areas but not when it comes to gaming monitors
CES 2026 We have a lot to look forward to this year from pixel-packed panels.
Micron says it's not to blame for its high memory prices: 'There's just not enough supply to go around'
News I can't say I disagree, really. The problem is AI.
In the midst of climbing prices, surprisingly it's the RX 9070 that's stepping up to the plate with this Ryzen X3D gaming PC for $250 off
Deal Not quite the prices of yesteryear, but this is decent.
Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros
News Open all roads to open source software, I say.
Linux researcher and developer says 'there are bugs in your kernel right now that won't be found for years. I know because I analyzed 125,183 of them'
News What's bug's scarier than a spider? That's right, a Linux bug 😱
Asus is now implementing 'strategic price adjustments' and retailers are already hiking prices for laptops from other brands
News No doubt a sign of things to come.
Corsair's latest mouse pad is just begging to have my greasy fingers all over it
CES 2026 Kidding, I have far too much respect for the humble mouse pad for that.
These $200 audiophile earbuds mix planar and dynamic drivers and they look like they might actually be decent for gaming
CES 2026 Low-latency mode and some planar drivers in there, too.
Lenovo's latest rollable screen concept laptop has finally got its rolly polly the right way around
CES 2026 Left to right, not up to down.
MSI announces the 'most powerful gaming laptop on the planet' in the form of the 300 W RTX 5090 Raider 16 Max HX
CES 2026 Most powerful, so presumably most expensive, too?
AMD and Nvidia talking up local AI for consumers could be bad news for those ChatGPT subscriptions but good news for us PC gamers
CES 2026 Also, the glass is half full.
Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight
CES 2026 But maybe they shouldn't be called the same name as the original.
Corsair brings Hall effect to its dinky enthusiast gaming keyboard in the form of the MAKR Pro 75
CES 2026 Small and mighty.
If you're disappointed by the lack of gaming talk in Nvidia's CES keynote, fear not because the company might be, umm, bringing back the RTX 3060
News Although, this could actually signal worse news for PC gamers.
Nvidia looks to further eradicate motion blur with new G-Sync Pulsar improvements for '4x the effective motion clarity'
CES 2026 "With Pulsar, you get the motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor as if you're rendering at 1,000 fps."
The deal on this RTX 5070 gaming PC almost made me forget there's a memory shortage and general component pricing crisis right now
Deal Just $1,300 for a well-rounded RTX 5070 machine.
