
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

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.

Saved you a click: The latest Windows 11 24H2 Insider preview build offers internet speed check right from the taskbar
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Testing patience.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US needs to 'go compete' with AI chips against China because 'they're nanoseconds behind us'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Playing the field.

Turns out, Microsoft will offer Windows 10 security updates for free until 2026—but unfortunately not in the US or the UK
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Don't mind me, I'm just cussing out Brexit again.

Even with only a RTX 5060 GPU, the Razer Blade 14 still earns our recommendation thanks to a generous discount down to $1,700 right now
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal Beefier is not always better.

Corsair announces Vanguard 96, a line of 96% gaming keyboards with Hall effect switches and, for some reason, Stream Deck integration
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Double tap.

PlayStation announces new Pulse speakers but pitches them as perfect for 'desktop gaming'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The wall may be in disrepair, but the garden is thriving.
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