Jess Kinghorn

Jess Kinghorn

Hardware Writer

Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending a significant chunk of that time working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not investigating all things hardware here, she's either constructing a passionate defence of a 7/10 game, daydreaming about her debut novel, or feeling wistful about the last time she chased some nerds around a field with an oversized foam sword. 

Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

Acer Nitro Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card
AMD says its working on FSR's frame pacing issues, but there's still conspicuously no mention of Multi Frame Generation

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Smooth moves ahead?

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The Razer Enki gaming chair in a 'Quartz' pink colourway floats at a jaunty angle in the PC Gamer deal void.
The Razer Enki is nearly $100 off—and don't worry, you can get it in other colors besides pink

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Deal But why you would want it in any other colorway is beyond me.

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Crucial and WD_Black SSDs
Best cheap SSD deals today

By Jess Kinghorn Last updated

Deals Add more storage space to your PC for less with one of the deals I've spotted.

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Modern Warfare 4 DMZ - Clear a compound
No more waiting on shaders to compile as Nvidia's latest driver adds advanced shader delivery: users report lower RAM usage in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Instead of waiting around at your rig, the cloud can do all of the heavy lifting instead.

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Black Friday listing image with a Silicon Power SSD featured
Black Friday SSD deals 2026

By Jacob Ridley Last updated

Black Friday Black Friday will be here before we know it, making it the perfect time to scout out the ultimate storage upgrade.

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Data Center
'You've taken us free cash flow negative as a company, so congratulations': Amazon has plenty of Nvidia GPUs, but not enough energy to power its AI boom

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Meanwhile, the RTX 5090 remains missing in action.

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Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. - stock photo. Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA - August 23, 2022
80% of Samsung's data center memory is already sold for 2027, meaning yet another double-digit price increase for RAM expected and more likely to come

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Next year isn't looking so hot for sensibly priced hardware upgrades either…

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Shiva conjures a crystal encrusted GPU in this playfully edited screenshot.
I have neither the budget nor the inclination for a crystal encrusted RTX 5090, but Galax is releasing one anyway

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News These stones ain't no friends of mine.

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The Steam Frame on the Steam Frame box.
I'm not sure if the Steam Frame hits any corners in this bouncing screensaver, but maybe if I watch long enough the headset will come down in price

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Jump around!

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Key switches have spilled out across a black surface from a nearby clear plastic tube. the switches in question are Keychron Silk POM Banana.
This sound library catalogues 100 different keyboard switches, is dangerous for my wallet, and also has… live service game mechanics?

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Bend an ear for this.

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A very budget, 3D printed, DIY PC controller. I has one analogue stick on the right, and only three visible buttons on the left (These are the 'X', Y', and menu buttons).
You can make this DIY controller in six hours and for less than 12 bucks—but would you want to?

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I think I'll stick with my GameSir Nova Lite.

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Demon's Souls
PS5-exclusive Demon's Souls Remake not only runs on PC now, it's running at twice the fps cap on an RTX 5070 with frame gen

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News It could be smoother but double the frames is nothing to sniff at.

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A pink balloon deflated lying on a tiled floor.
The AI bubble may not have burst yet, but $1 trillion worth of air appears to have escaped

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Not so much 'going out with a bang' as 'anticlimactic party balloon deflation'.

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Steam and the Epic Games launcher represented as two cars on a race track.
Epic said its game launcher was faster than Steam on the same day Steam got a speed boost—so I've put both to the test

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News There's only seconds in it, mind.

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The Talos Principle promo image - a human robot contemplating the nature of existence or something
'AI godfather' worries we're creating 'alien beings' with artificial intelligence, with pesky moral implications

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News "We should care as much about all the other aspects of a being as you do about its intelligence."

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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty hacker
'123456' password was all a hacker reportedly needed to expose over 8 million people's personal data

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News A department where just a little bit of creativity doesn't go amiss.

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The XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT on white gravel
AMD has reportedly already raised GDDR6 prices for its graphics card partners, so you'll find no solace from spiking GPU prices with Team Red

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Getting worse before it gets better.

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The HP EliteBoard G2a Next-Gen AI PC (Attached Cable) floats in a pink-blue gradient void.
Behold, the $3,000 keyboard that is also actually a powerful AI PC I would hate to spill my coffee on

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I'll be saving my pennies for something—anything—else, personally.

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The Museo de Historia de la Computación's Cray-1 supercomputer replica built from many Mac Minis and more.
Museum strings together 30 old Mac minis for replica of most successful supercomputer, builds something more powerful than the original

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Happy birthday, Apple.

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Man with hands out using a VR headset.
I am the controller now: MIT engineers have created a 'second skin' that could one day track whole bodies in VR

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Riding the wave(guide).

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Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corp., during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 13, 2024.
'Your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI' says Microsoft president

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News When the call for external regulation is coming from inside AI's house, you know it's serious.

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A player emerges from a cloud of smoke, as another player takes aim from near a wall.
Counter-Strike 2 player dedicates Master's thesis to rooting out cheaters, creates grade A player tracking system

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Now why didn't I think of that for my dissertation?

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A Skytech Gaming prebuilt PC and the MSI Codex R2 face off in the funky PCG deal void.
I've found these two 32 GB RTX 5070 gaming PCs going for $1,700, but it's not the easiest of choices

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Deal DDR4 or DDR5? Big boi Intel chip or punchy little contender?

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Amazon's weird messages on its About You page.
Amazon is roasting users with their own shopping habits, but it don't have nothin' on us

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…

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A glossy flat lay teardown of Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra.
Microsoft seems very excited about its new magnetic USB Type-C charger for the Surface Laptop Ultra, but it don't impress me much

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Not sure I'm feeling a connection, to be honest.

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