
James Bentley
James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead. In that time, he has covered the latest doodads, contraptions, and gismos, and loved every second of it. Hey, it’s better than writing case briefs.
Latest articles by James Bentley

Mchose G3 V2 review
By James Bentley published
Score: 84% Cheap and cheerful, without feeling cheap.

There's only one budget wireless hall effect controller I'd recommend right now, and my current favorite is only $30
By James Bentley published
Deal It even comes with a charging stand.

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today
By Dave James last updated
Deals We've scoured the internet for the best deals on gaming monitors, so you don't have to.

EasySMX D05 review
By James Bentley published
Score: 87% You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.

Microsoft's Project Helix sounds like it could be better for gamers than the Series X but in a way that is worse for Xbox
By James Bentley published
Ex-Xbox Is 'anywhere' really where you want to play Xbox?

EasySMX D10 controller review
By James Bentley published
Score: 80% A feature-rich budget TMR controller that only sometimes feels like a compromise.

'Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers': New Blood CEO on fighting against DLSS 5
By James Bentley published
News DLSS 5 has unleashed a fiery debate among game developers.

The Amazon Big Spring Sale may be on but it's actually Newegg offering the best OLED gaming monitor deal right now
By James Bentley published
Deal That's a saving of $150.

Amazon US sold nearly half the number of CPUs it did this time last year
By James Bentley published
News That's the memory crisis for you…

The co-founder of a major datacenter company has been charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in AI chips to China
By James Bentley published
News Supermicro has put them on administrative leave with another employee also charged, and a third has been fired.

Crimson Desert will not boot on Intel Arc graphics cards and users are being encouraged to refund the game
By James Bentley published
News We were greeted by a pop-up saying our hardware is not supported when we tried.

Gnome gets Nvidia performance boost, offering 'smoother window animations and general desktop fluidity' for Linux gamers
By James Bentley published
News That will hopefully continue to bridge the gap.

The memory crisis certainly isn't ending soon, as Micron confirm 'demand significantly in excess of our available supply for the foreseeable future'
By James Bentley published
News It is reportedly "working to address the unprecedented gap between supply and demand".

Fake Pudgy Penguins phishing page 'plays dead' when it thinks it's being probed to avoid detection
By James Bentley published
News The Web3 game launched just last month.

Capcom and Ubisoft developers surprised by DLSS 5 announcement: "We found out at the same time as the public"
By James Bentley published
News DLSS 5 is proving to be quite contentious.

Another nail in the Metaverse coffin: Meta Horizon Worlds is shutting down in three months for VR, but the mobile app will remain
By James Bentley published
News You have until the end of March to download it, and until June 15 to play it in VR.

This LG ultrawide 1440p gaming monitor is the cheapest I'd actually buy right now, at $270
By James Bentley published
Deal That's a whole third off.

'If that was shown as a next-gen hardware reveal and not AI you guys would be going nuts': Epic Games lead producer says the idea DLSS 5 looks bad or detracts from art direction is 'absolutely insane'
By James Bentley published
News "The lighting and shading improvements are bonkers."

Bethesda weighs in on negative DLSS 5 reaction: 'This will all be under our artists’ control, and totally optional for players'
By James Bentley published
News Yassified Starfield, anyone?

'Bad ending: now every game is slop': Game developers share mixed reactions to DLSS 5
By James Bentley published
News Is the 'future of real-time rendering' in the room with us?

MSI reportedly plans on tackling 'the most challenging year since the company was founded', with 15-30% price raises, making DDR5 motherboards DDR4 compatible, and increasing AI server revenue
By James Bentley published
News The RAMpocalypse is nowhere near done messing with market prices.

YouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed 'The Fanhattan Project', performs pretty much the same as a standard fan
By James Bentley published
News "This fan is basically a meme of the [Noctua] A12x25."

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything
By James Bentley published
News Just don't let strangers near your rig soon, or any time really.
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