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

Upscaling issues continue to plague Crimson Desert post-patch, but Pearl Abyss isn't throwing in the towel
By Jess Kinghorn published
News At least some good news for anyone gaming on an Intel Arc GPU.

'We’ve been getting around two days of normal work out of it': Proton GE dev GloriousEggRoll and CachyOS offer early praise for Framework 13 Pro's 'freakishly good battery life'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Extremely powerful.

Someone has apparently snaffled up 31 WordPress plugins and wedged a backdoor in each one
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Don't blog without the proper protections in place, folks.

'Overclocking should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money,' says VP of Intel's enthusiast chip business
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The future looks bright—just not in this hardware generation.

'Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively': Firefox CTO raves about Claude Mythos' bug hunting capabilities after it finds 271 vulnerabilities
By Jess Kinghorn published
News That's one heck of a fly swatter, Anthropic.

April's Windows 11 update reportedly causes blue screens and boot loops on HP and Dell PCs
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I'd find it easier to stay on top of OS updates, were it not for all the issues caused by said updates.

Security researchers hacked the demo version of the European Commission's new age verification app in less than two minutes
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Still a far cry from 'actually ready'.

Cybersecurity expert turns cybercriminal, pleading guilty to 'conspiracy to deploy ransomware'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The accused faces up to 20 years in prison.

Redditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Be not afraid (except maybe of leaks).

A Redditor tries to return a failed enterprise HDD to Toshiba, but it turns out that a replacement would take at least a year to arrive
By Jess Kinghorn published
News 2026 is not the year for upgrades OR replacements, it seems.

"DDoS is not a game. It's a crime!" Europol targets the youth in latest bid to take down DDoS-for-hire infrastructure
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Operation PowerOFF involves co-operation between 21 different countries.

The European Commission wants to push Google off its web search throne with a data sharing proposal
By Jess Kinghorn published
Levelling the playing field.

The best budget 4K gaming monitor is now only $299, but there's another dual-mode monitor trying to steal the show
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal Two dual-mode gaming monitors, somewhat alike in dignity.

Fortnite Festival now lets you hit the skins for real with new MIDI drum kit compatibility
By Jess Kinghorn published
News We about to get down.

Though not a gaming mouse, the new Asus squeaker enjoys gaming-grade features and a 'ceraluminium' top coat that makes it look like a crunchy little snack
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I'm not giving up my Razer Deathadder V3 Hyperspeed for it, though.

TSMC's latest bank report is exactly as you'd expect it to be: mo' wafers, mo' money
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Chips with everything.

This YouTuber mod project brings the original PlayStation up to date with HDMI output, USB power, and wireless controller support
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Lo-fi beats to solder to.

Cybersecurity experts raise the alarm over Windows Recall again: 'The vault door is titanium. The wall next to it is drywall'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Hacking tool supposedly creates "precisely the scenario Microsoft’s architecture is supposed to restrict."

Our cozy games of April list is looking so chilled out that there isn't even a single farm sim on it
By Lauren Morton last updated
Cozy calendar Don't get a spring in your step just yet because this month's cozy game launches are all so cozy you might want to stay bundled up.

MediaTek is 'cautiously optimistic' that discrete memory pricing will look less gloomy during 2026
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The memory supply crisis will likely get worse before it gets better, though.

Historical Steam survey data suggests the Big Switch from Windows to Linux has yet to happen
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Are Linux users trying to make 'fetch' happen?

Normal memory chips couldn't withstand the hellscape of Venus so scientists have crafted something that can
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Memory of the stars.

Windows 11 now lets you skip the time-consuming updates on a fresh install. Neat!
By Jess Kinghorn published
News One small step towards rebuilding user goodwill.
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