
Jess Kinghorn
Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending the last seven working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not writing about all things hardware here, she’s getting cosy with a horror classic, ranting about a cult hit to a captive audience, or tinkering with some tabletop nonsense.
Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The second best time to back up your files is right now.

13 of the best post-Prime Day PC gaming deals still live and kicking today
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deals Hardware deals to suit every budget.

A YouTuber has built his own VR headset for a little over $150 and made the whole project open source, so I might just give it a go
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Virtually affordable.

Sick of clicky-clacky keys? Google Japan offers a reminder that it could always be worse, unveiling a rotary keyboard concept
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Dial 'G' for 'Gaming'.

Best SSD deals for gaming today
By Jacob Ridley last updated
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.

Razer's latest Blade 14 is a real object of desire, and is somehow still rocking an $800 discount in the Prime Day gaming laptop deals
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day It's the best 14-inch laptop for a reason.

The HyperX Cloud Alpha is still our favorite gaming headset, and it's now even better at only $66
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day Crowning glory.

You can scoop up a beefy 24 TB HDD for less than 1₵ per GB in the Prime Day sales, proving that old school hard drives are still alive and kicking
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day Left in the dust, but not out for the count.

The Asus ROG Pelta is a comfy, understated wireless headset that's now even better in the Prime Deal Days sales at only $104
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day Black (and RGB lighting) goes with everything.

8BitDo is offering a Hall effect gamepad for under $20, so long as you're not fussy about this PC controller's colorway
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day It's not just the color that's the catch, though.

These Prime Day SSD prices may not last much longer as AI data centers swallow up all the memory, so take advantage of a 1 TB drive being just $54
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day Not the fastest, but probably the cheapest.

SSDs without DRAM are definitely still worth your time—especially when you can snag the 1 TB Lexar NM790 for only $66
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day This drive definitely isn't lacking.

Crucial comes in clutch once again, offering a speedy 1 TB SSD for a little less than $63
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day Small, but mighty at that price.

For only $40, this rechargeable electric screwdriver is cordless, comes with 12 metal bits, and is even compact enough to slip inside your pocket
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day Spin to win.

This 2 TB PCIe 5.0 SSD with speeds up to 10,000 MB/s is only fractionally more than its slower PCIe 4.0 equivalent right now
By Jacob Ridley published
Prime Day Crucial's P510 is excellent value and even more so today with this deal just in time for Amazon Prime Day.

Dial up is dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned, as the company is pulling the plug after 34 years
By Jess Kinghorn published
News But that doesn't mean US broadband infrastructure is necessarily picking up the slack.

Nonprofit turned investment magnet OpenAI is now valued at $500 billion
By Jess Kinghorn published
News But is AI a bubble that's about to burst?

Private collector's GPU horde tours through 30 years of Nvidia and AMD hardware history
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Almost all the flagship models are here.

Asus is finally bringing RTX 5080 card themed around everyone's favourite Vocaloid songstress to the US—but there's a steep Miku tax
By Jess Kinghorn published
News HOW MUCH?

Apparently the most popular clip on OpenAI's new AI video app Sora depicts Sam Altman stealing graphics cards
By Jess Kinghorn published
News And that's why I wear a brown paper bag on my head at all times.

OpenAI's new video generation tool Sora 2 is here, but don't worry, Sam Altman says it will avoid the 'degenerate case of AI video generation that ends up with us all being sucked into an RL-optimized slop feed'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I do not need another social app, much less one that revolves around AI-generated video.

The gamers have done it again, this time building a functional ChatGPT in Minecraft—but before you get too excited, it takes literally hours to provide a response
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Block by block.

Fancy some unorthodox, techy ASMR? Try the soothing sound of 12 dial-up modems all trying to connect to the internet at once
By Jess Kinghorn published
News More calming than ocean waves or white noise, I tell ya.
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