Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
Audeze LCD-S20 Closed-back review
Score: 76% Planar magnetic drivers with epic sound isolation.
Google now lets you choose who you trust for your gaming news—here's how to support PC Gamer and other human-made content
Help out I choo-choo-choose you.
Active noise cancellation is the latest trend for gaming headsets: here's how a different design philosophy could do much better than half-baked ANC
Cut it out Listen.
A gaming mouse and streamer's best friend in one: the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE is only $80 right now—a $60 saving
Deal Two for the price of one? Sort of, but it's a good deal either way.
This ROG Strix G16 with an RTX 5070 Ti is on sale for less than some RTX 5070 gaming laptops in the Labor Day sales
Deal There's one other contender at this price, but I prefer the AMD chip offered here
Alienware 16 Area-51 gaming laptop review
Score: 80% An excellent Alienware chassis over top-tier components.
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations
DIY From a sub-$1,000 penny-saving performer to a $4,000+ monster.
Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming
Quick digits The best Hall effect, optical or induction gaming keyboards are built for competitive gameplay, but they offer something for everybody.
MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 360 review
Score: 67% A cheaper screen than most, but not quite there in other ways.
We just crowned this the best looking Hall effect keyboard, and it's currently 50% off and its lowest price ever by a huge margin
Deal The NZXT Function Elite MiniTKL scored highly in our review, even when it was double the price it is today.
MSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike extravagance with a gold-trimmed AMD motherboard—to go with your golden graphics card and RAM, naturally
News A golden PC is now on the cards, or at the very least spread across many expensive monthly payments.
Corsair's budget-friendly chassis is back down to $105 with three ARGB fans included in the box
Deal Now if Corsair saw fit to install a fourth fan in the back, we'd be totally sorted.
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Best gaming PCs in 2025: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.
Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same
News The ruling "does not give Ofcom and the secretary of state a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia’s operations."
Intel CEO set to meet with President Trump and probably discuss company's woes, domestic chip manufacturing, and that awkward moment Trump called for his resignation last week
News That was one way to force Intel to the negotiating table...
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.
It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect
Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.
Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it
Secure Boot It's a Windows thing.
I build a PC every month: these are my 5 worst PC building gripes
Gripes Week It's Gripes Week at PC Gamer, and I'm taking aim at the thing I enjoy the most in my job: PC building.
