Latest articles by James Bentley
As a standing desk connoisseur, I'm happy to crown our new best budget and compact motorized gaming desks
Take a stand Bye-bye, E1, you will be missed.
Emeet Pixy review
Score: 82% Smart 4K webcams are getting cheaper, but they're not strictly getting better.
Medion Erazer Deputy 15 P1 review
Score: 77% The most budget RTX 5060 gaming laptop actually worth considering.
HP announces an updated set of Omen Max 45L RTX 5090 rigs with Ryzen CPUs, but no word on price yet leaves me worried
News More Ryzen rigs feel like a good thing.
I've been on a quest to find a gaming keyboard media key replacement, and like an incredibly nerdy anti-Goldilocks, I've found none of them are just right
Sound advice Crank it up!
I'm as surprised as you are that the cheapest curved ultrawide gaming monitor I'd actually buy right now is a Samsung Odyssey
Deal This Odyssey is an oddity.
RTX 5090 prices are so ludicrous that Alienware gaming PCs actually feel, dare I say, reasonable
Top of the pile I can't believe it either.
Noctua unveils RTX 5080 that looks like one of its lovely fans, and it promises 'exceptional performance with impressively low noise levels'
News Pretty, cool. Pretty cool.
The ROG Xbox Ally will reportedly launch in October, but I'm still not convinced there's a good enough reason to buy it yet
News The Xbox branding doesn't mean much to me.
Modders are trying their hardest to add an NVMe SSD to the Switch 2, which is both impressive and something I'm not going to do
News Though microSD Express prices are brutal.
A creator spent multiple days streaming themself unfolding a Samsung Fold 200,000 times and at one point, 'an unknown black liquid came out of the hinge, but it has not appeared again'
News That's dedication.
Acer's net income is up 110% in the past few months despite the Trump administration's tariffs and of course it's promising more 'AI solutions' to come
It has found a way to keep costs down.
Computer chips made outside the US to receive 100% tariff likely spiking tech prices, but 'there's no charge' for companies currently building on American soil
News It's good news for TSMC.
OpenAI's new open-weight reasoning model can be run locally on an RTX card but you still need a pretty beefy rig to run it
News AMD is supporting it too.
Razer is the latest gaming brand to jump on the 'AI gaming' bandwagon as it opens up the 'first of three global AI hubs'
News AI gaming is a pretty broad term.
Sick of Nvidia? You can now get a beefy all Team Red PC with a Ryzen 7 9700X, RX 9060 XT, and 32 GB of RAM for just over $1,200
Deal Green with envy.
German phone repair and insurance firm goes bankrupt after paying €200,000 to ransomware hackers despite reported revenue of 70 million
News 11% of the company's data was reportedly leaked.
'Btw, we recently found the Vine video archive' says Elon Musk after declaring Grok's video generation to be the AI equivalent
News 'Grok Imagine is AI Vine', and Zendaya is Meechee.
Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding 'crawling activity' as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them 'more flair than cloud'
News A perplexing situation.
Nvidia claims H20 chips do 'not have backdoors' after reportedly being summoned by 'Beijing authorities' for a quick word
News China could start to adopt Nvidia's H20 chips going forward.
ChatGPT removes the ability for conversations to be displayed by search engines as 'nearly 4,500 conversations' indexed by Google
news It's suggested those opting in to share their information didn't know they were doing so.
Linus Torvalds is still on the 'same old boring Radeon RX 580', which is a sign I probably don't need that upgrade I've been eying up
News What a card it is.
We just got our first proper look at GPD's battery-optional Strix Halo handheld gaming PC and I'm still unconvinced
News Though it's still fairly early days.
