Latest articles by James Bentley
CES 2026: From new Intel chips to far too much AI, here's everything we expect to see
CES 2026 CES always starts the year with a bang.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
2025 is the year I discovered I love charging docks, and it's all because of one surprisingly reasonably priced gaming mouse
Gear of the Year 8BitDo what others don't.
A psychic baby and whacky control scheme undersell the mundane brilliance of one of my favourite games this year
🏆 It's hard to say goodbye to Goodnight Universe.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2025
Gear of the year It's been a varied year for handhelds, with all three of the top models being from different manufacturers.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming monitor of 2025
Gear of the year Two 4K and one 1440p monitor take the nominations this year, with one being a potential dark horse.
Sam Altman says Google is 'still a huge threat' and ChatGPT will be declaring code red 'maybe twice a year for a long time'
News The AI arms race is only getting hotter.
OLED monitors are starting to get their flowers, as 2025 marks a 65% increase in shipments
News Hopefully, that comes with even more competition in the OLED market.
You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'
News This should mean fewer cheaters going forward.
Samsung's new Odyssey OLED monitor has dropped by a whopping $170 in the holiday sales
Deals The cheapest OLED worth considering right now.
PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025
The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.
Good news and good news: Meta is reportedly hard at work on the Quest 4 and has delayed its mixed reality glasses to 2027
News Just throw a couple billion more into the MR pit.
Windows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now
News Oh! That seems like it could actually be useful.
AMD's Lisa Su doesn't believe there's an AI bubble: 'Emphatically, from my perspective, no'
News Bound to burst?
Rumours suggest AMD might raise CPU prices but some industry sources disagree
News Prepare to pay more.
Two men have been arrested for attempting to destroy government databases and they reportedly tried to cover their tracks with the help of AI tools
News AI or old-school, there's a paper trail behind every crime.
'Never bet against' Jensen Huang's 'ability to disrupt himself' says IBM chief
News Nvidia was recently evaluated at $5 trillion, but what if the AI bubble pops?
Samsung's new, more affordable OLED gaming monitor has already dropped in price by $150 in the Cyber Week sales
Cyber Monday It might be time for that display upgrade.
The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group
News Asetek's cooling solutions and racing sim developments seem to be what the bidder is after.
As Cyber Week continues, the cheapest RTX 5080 gaming PC right now is this $1,900 Alienware machine
Cyber Monday And you get double the storage for free.
There are simply too many tempting Cyber Monday gaming headset deals, so here are the four best that I'd buy
Cyber Monday Listen up to these deals.
From TMR sticks to budget picks, these are the nine best game controller deals in the Cyber Monday sales
Cyber Monday No matter the budget, there's a good choice out there.
You don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a gaming soundbar because our favorite budget pick is down to $55 in the Cyber Monday sales
Cyber Monday In both colors too.
