Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn
Handheld gaming PCs are cooked
Counting down Fancy a spot of pessimism, perchance?
Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation
News A new challenger has appeared.
E-Ink faceplates for the Steam Machine are coming, but not from Valve
News I am going to put the filthiest fanfiction on this thing.
Whether you have a need for speed or require retina-melting brightness, I've got two cracking deals on budget gaming monitors for you
Deal Decisions, decisions.
Rumour suggests Intel is cooking up a 12 Xe desktop Nova Lake CPU
News 'Decent discrete graphics? In my desktop processor?'
AI data center servers predicted to glug more power than 'conventional servers' by 2027
News Coming for an overtaxed electricity grid near you.
'Thank you again rural Walmart': Redditor picks up 32 GB of memory for $50, twice
News Some folks get all the luck.
Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center
News 'Microsoft prides itself on being a good neighbor in the communities where we operate.'
Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling
News Still cooler than me.
This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card
News Breaking the mold.
Google loses protracted antitrust fight and will have to pay record-breaking €4.1 billion fine equivalent to less than 3% of Alphabet's annual profit
News Rulings coming home to roost.
The best gaming mouse is 'a superior squeaker in pretty much every respect' and its finally enjoying a $20 discount
Deal I would never part with my daily driver—unless…
Rumours suggest Intel may be planning to join the club of hardware manufacturers reviving old product lines, all the way back to Comet Lake
News What a throwback.
'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat
News This space for rent.
'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing
News A better, less cooked world is still possible.
French retailer briefly offers the 'Stim Machine,' a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand
News Making Daft Punks of us all.
The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual
Cozy calendar I've tracked down at least 30 new cozy games launching in July and I lost count of how many have cats.
Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database
News The face when no gif.
Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games
News 'Victory is defeat'.
Valve says it is 'definitely' investigating an Arm-based gaming future on top of its work on FEX
News Flexing ahead.
Valve doesn't currently have 'any specific plans' for more Steam Machine faceplates, so you'll have to make them yourself
News Seems like a problem a lot of glitter can fix.
'99% of the work was already done in a sense': Valve says it has less to fix with the Steam Machine because they already fixed it on the Steam Deck
News Dust yourself off and try again.
Memory crisis heads to court: Class-action lawsuit calls Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron DRAM market 'oligopolists', alleging anticompetitive behavior
News 'No outsider can expand output to undercut them.'
