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

The AOC Gaming Q27GAZD QD-OLED floats in the funky PCG deal void.
This 240 Hz OLED may only be 27-inches, but it's a $330 gaming monitor you won't want to overlook

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Deal The monitor deals are still a-biting.

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. TSMC is scheduled to release earnings results on Oct. 19.
TSMC continues to rake it in from the 'multi-year AI megatrend,' making a record-breaking $16.35 billion in August alone

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Is the bubble too big to pop?

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Hands-on with Valve's new VR headset, the Steam Frame, during an interview at Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
VR headset shipments are down 18% compared to this time last year, and that may not be great news for Valve

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I'd love to get my head in the game, but…

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Microsoft signage at an office building in New York, US, on Monday, April 27, 2026. Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on April 29. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Microsoft's AI vulnerability detection results in record-breaking Patch Tuesday, addressing 974 security flaws

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Both source and solution?

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card from various angles
That's just great: Graphics card prices in China are set to increase again as Nvidia shifts even more of production towards AI GPUs

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News My kingdom for a sensibly priced GPU.

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Framework 13 Pro laptop
Good news for some: Framework swims against the tide of the RAMpocalypse by 'retroactively reducing' its LPCAMM2 prices

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Some already shipped orders can even apply for a refund.

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A dramatically lit close up of computer memory/ RAM on a motherboard-style background.
Why does this sort of thing never happen to me? Redditor says they found $10,000 worth of RAM just sitting in their garage

By Jess Kinghorn Published

This memory stash doesn't grant an automatic upgrade for their gaming rig, though.

Memory
ANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA - JULY 23: Intel headquarters is seen on July 23, 2026 in Santa Clara, California. Intel reported over $16 billion in sales for the second quarter of the year.
Sources say another 10% price increase for Intel CPUs is on the way, and it could be here as soon as October

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Up, up, and away.

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Hands-on with Valve's new VR headset, the Steam Frame, during an interview at Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
Valve appears to be implementing a reservation system for the Steam Frame, suggesting it expects demand will outstrip supply at launch

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Closer than you think.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
OpenAI publicly acknowledges the German 'wiki incident' weeks after first finding out about it

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Back on track?

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Nvidia's GTC keynote with Jen-Hsun Huang at Computex, Taiwan.
Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there's already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News That's a whole lot of compute, and apparently a big chunk of that went into 'safety and alignment'

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
Once again, it is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to PAX West and track down Nvidia's 'GeForce Evangelist' rather than buy the RTX 5090 anywhere else

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News They didn't even have boxed GPUs at the event this time.

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Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial motherboard
Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News PC gaming sure ain't cheap.

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The wired version of the Scuf Valor Pro is seen in white, from the front and the back. They both float in the funky PCG deals void.
The best wired PC controller has been knocked down to $77—so long as you don't mind it in white

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Deal Wires? Why Not?

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Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks at the Nvidia GTC event on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026.
Nvidia puts its money where its mouth is on open weight AI, moving to buy Hugging Face for $13 billion

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Come on guys, fling a few mil my way?

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Left: Microsoft logo on an office tower exterior in downtown Vancouver. Right: The glass facade of Sony's headquarters in the Swiss city of Schlieren, on a cloudy late summer afternoon.
Both Microsoft and Sony say they're under no obligation to pass tariff refunds on to customers

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News One for me, none for thee.

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The Acer Project DualPlay Mini shown two ways: typical handheld gaming PC mode, and with the screen mid-flip into laptop mode.
Acer's bizarre hybrid handheld/laptop concept is way more interesting than what is actually getting released this year

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Flippin' 'eck.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
OpenAI head Sam Altman says 'people hate data centers,' but the company still plans to invest $50 billion more in AI infrastructure this year alone

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Putting two and two together, but coming up with a completely different answer.

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Valve's Steam Deck with Hades ready to launch on screen
30,000 games are either Steam Deck verified or at least 'playable' on Valve's handheld

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Hands on, and on the go.

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Two gaming OLEDs from Alienware float in a pink-blue gradient void.
Alienware aims at 'more price points people can actually reach,' announces a tandem OLED gaming monitor at a much lower price than our current top pick

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News *Squinting* The future looks bright.

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Windows defender logo
Windows keeps telling people it has turned off anti-virus even though it hasn't

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News The bug affects multiple versions of Windows 11 and Windows 10.

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Hands-on with Valve's new VR headset, the Steam Frame, during an interview at Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
No Half-Life 3 for the Steam Frame, so it looks like this six-year-old game might be the key launch offering instead

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Gordon who?

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The best RPGs on PC

By Robin Valentine Last updated

Updated! Discover your next epic adventure with our list of the most essential RPGs you can play on PC right now.

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The Corsair Frame 4000X PC case with the rippling wood face plate. It's in a light blue light box, and reflections of the blue surroundings are playing off the carved ridges of the ripple design.
The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Dream on? It's definitely got plenty of parts to pick from, but does it all come together?

Dream on?
The AVGPC Max Series Gaming PC floats in the funky PCG deal void.
This $1,200 RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC also has 32 GB of RAM, which isn't bad going in the midst of a memory crisis

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Deal But will it play GTA 6? That's the question!

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