Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses.
Portable PC
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deals Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
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.
Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua OC Edition review
Score: 72% Big, chilly, and hella headroom.
MSI Afterburner and some PSUs can now pull an emergency power brake to prevent your graphics card going up in a puff of smoke
News More peace of mind, if you're willing to pay for the PSU.
Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some audio treacle with the best gaming headsets.
Best graphics cards in 2026: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards
Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.
This is the cheapest gaming PC actually worth buying right now—$899 for an RTX 5060, DDR5 RAM, and a 1 TB SSD
Deal I've scoured retailers for something cheaper and I'm yet to find anything as modern as this machine for the same price or less.
Best CPU for gaming in 2026: These are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
Take a seat Treat your body to one of the best gaming chairs and sit like a royal on your new throne.
Here's what we think the Steam Machine will cost now that Valve's admitted 'limited availability and growing prices' have forced it to change plans
Out of Steam? Let's revise our optimistic guesses from last year now the memory crisis is in full swing.
AMD CEO suggests next-gen Xbox will launch in 2027—the premium console's chip is 'progressing well'
News Let's hope RAM prices clear up by then.
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 review
Score: 87% A great choice with a lot going for it.
Logitech's new $80 gaming headset has an undercover mic so you don't feel like a donut wearing it out the house
News The G325 is hoping to be the headset for every occasion.
Moltbook is like Reddit but only AI agents are allowed—though after spending hours trawling through threads, it looks more like a huge, unhinged roleplay server to me
News You'd have a better chance of an informed discussion in the chat window of a YouTube live stream than this.
Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2026: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers
Expansive It's time to go wide... ultrawide: these gaming monitors are wider, brighter, and faster than ever.
'Slay, bestie' just some of the Gen Z slang used in programming language dreamt up by AI in a 'Ralph Wiggum loop' that its creator feared may be too powerful
News I don't know, man.
Nvidia might be doing what was once unthinkable: asking Intel to make some of its future AI chips
News Nvidia isn't going all-in on Intel, according to the report, but it's better than nothing for the struggling foundry.
Open source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator
News OpenSplitDeck is shaping up to be a seriously impressive controller.
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review
Score: 94% Practically peerless on price/performance.
Intel has the memory chips it needs to keep shipping Lunar Lake: 'we were relatively aggressive in terms of getting the memory early'
News On-package memory would've put Intel in a tough spot if not.
Intel Nova Lake CPUs on track for late 2026 as exec downplays shuffling capacity to meet datacenter demand: 'We have important customers in both datacenter and client and that needs to be our priority'
News Would you consider Nova Lake?
Jensen Huang talks AI's insatiable appetite for GPUs at the World Economic Forum: 'spot price of GPU rentals is going up, not just the latest generation, but two generation old GPUs'
News AI is all-consuming.
