Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
NASA's latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually good for online gaming—over 140 million miles through our solar system
News Just don't look at the ping.
Manor Lords seems surprisingly stable for an early access game, and the developer says: '99% crashes so far are old drivers'
News Manor Lords appears to be a pretty stable game, even in early access, but what crashes there are are reportedly caused by old drivers.
Noctua teases 'something new' that looks very much like the desk fan prototype it's had on show before
News Before you get too excited, it's definitely not Noctua's next-gen 140mm fan.
This mega-ultrawide OLED gaming monitor was too hot to handle at MSRP but it's just cooled off to $1,000
Deal That's a pretty sharp price drop for a gaming monitor that's not been out for long.
HyperX Cloud III Wireless review
Cloud Beta Not the convincing wireless gaming headset I was hoping for.
Meta is creating a Quest VR headset in the style of an Xbox, which probably means it's black with a bit of green
News We don't know what it looks like yet, which means there's a chance we're all surprised.
EK admits fault for financial issues facing employees and business partners: 'We are committed to fulfilling our financial obligations and regaining your trust'
News EK's CEO and founder, Edvard König, has released a statement on the financial difficulties alleged by various reports over the previous five days.
Asus is creating the VR 'gaming headset of the next generation' built on Meta's Horizon OS lifted off the Quest 3
News An ROG branded virtual reality headset built on Meta's OS? This I have to see, though we don't know much about it yet.
New rules to massively strengthen EU's right to repair successfully pass through European Parliament with 584 votes for, just 3 against
News The new rules will give customers new ways to claim support for a product throughout its lifetime, and also aid independent repair shops.
There are few easy ways to get across the incredible complexity required to build a modern computer chip: this photograph is one of them
News Makes you realise we'd have a tough job ever getting this technology back if it were, let's say, somehow forgotten.
Roccat is gone, replaced by Turtle Beach: 'We felt that time and resources would be best spent focusing under a single brand'
News The PC peripheral brand has been fully assimilated into parent company Turtle Beach.
Gaming PCs with no visible cables are the boldest design change I've seen in a decade of building computers
Look ma, no cables! From motherboards and power supplies sneakily hiding cables, to graphics cards and fans that entirely get rid of them, we're seeing the end of cluttered gaming PCs.
Here's a portable PS1 built from the remnants of an actual console and it only took folding the motherboard 'like a book'
News Does this hurt the motherboard?
Playseat's latest racing seat makes it crystal clear that you like F1, in case a cockpit in your room wasn't clear enough
News I still want one, though.
Updated Star Citizen minimum system requirements look gentle but they're more guidelines than actual rules
News You still don't want to play this game with less than 32GB of RAM or without a decent CPU.
US promises Samsung $6.4B to build more chips on US soil, which only increases the chance of a Made in USA GPU at some point
News Samsung, TSMC, and Intel are all big benefactors from the CHIPS and Science Act cash the US Government is throwing around right now.
My top TikTok account of the minute: this 'guy with two microscopes' that peeps inside computer chips
News Ready for your close-up?
Our favorite gaming laptop is $700 off right now: not a bad price to secure an RTX 4080
Deal The Lenovo Legion 7i is down to just over $2,000 over at B&H right now.
Nextorage X Series (NN5PRO) 2TB review
Cost per GB The fastest SSD for random reads/writes we've ever tested, but for what purpose?
Scuf Envision Pro controller review
PC first A high-end controller actually designed for PC gaming.
A 16-inch gaming laptop is desirable but make it an RTX 4070 model for $1,200 and I'm in
Deal Acer's Nitro 16 is currently on offer over at Newegg, and it's not just the Nvidia GPU I'm into.
