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

Advanced Shader Delivery banishes long loads and shader stutter on first time launch, but only for certain games and there are a number of other caveats too
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I don't have this problem on PS5, I'm just saying.

I really hope you weren't considering a GPU upgrade this year, as Nvidia may raise the price of the already pricey RTX 5090 by as much as $300
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Memory is proving an expensive problem.

'Going just 0.5 mm thicker would probably have saved me months of engineering': Redditor crafts actual credit card sized computer
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Imagine saying 'here's my card' with this.

The best value 1440p gaming monitor is only $130, but there's a challenger to its throne
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal The eyes have it.

While I can barely find two sticks of 16 GB to rub together, Micron unveils a 256 GB memory module destined for AI servers
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The module is apparently "capable of speeds up to 9,200 megatransfers per second."

Printer-based scheme attempted to smuggle $8,967,742 worth of cocaine into Australia
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Paper jam detected.

'It's Temu Google Stadia': Vtuber showcases backseat gaming tool while playing Dark Souls 2 for the very first time
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Strap in.

'What if behind the pointer, there was an AI model': Google DeepMind wants to reinvent the humble mouse cursor
By Jess Kinghorn published
News It was not broke, and I don't think they fixed it.

Teaching software company strikes a deal with hackers to get customer data back, defying FBI guidance
By Jess Kinghorn published
News A strange choice with details to follow.

'We would need to shut off power for half the country': Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice
By Jess Kinghorn published
News 'Future generations will be overburdened by the current decisions.'

Gaussian Splatting is my new favourite thing, so I hassled an ex-Epic artist to tell me everything he knows about the low-cost 'photo-real' rendering technique
By Jess Kinghorn published
A point of view "It is not just a rendering trick—it changes the entire capture-to-delivery pipeline."

Elo Shapes reveals a speedy gaming mouse from a fresh new brand that weighs even less than the competition
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Speeding into view.

Rockstar ransom hackers claim to have stolen the data of 280 million teachers, school staff, and students in Canvas attack
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Lock it down, switch on 2FA, and stay safe, folks.

I've found cracking deals on two RTX 5070 gaming laptops—both with 32 GB of RAM and both for under $1,500
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal Two gamer houses, both alike in dignity.

Google isn't scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it's letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide 'personalized insights' but I'm not sure that's better
By Jess Kinghorn published
News You can also let Gemini scan your photos to make more "personal images using Nano Banana."

Valve releases the CAD files for the Steam Controller and its Puck, no doubt ushering in an era of unholy 3D printed creations
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Making it your own.

'We now expect second half gaming revenue to decline more than 20%': AMD feeling the sting of the memory supply crisis
By Jess Kinghorn published
News "I mean, look, this is something that everyone in the industry is working with."

'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Batten down the distros.

Windrose should no longer threaten to significantly reduce your SSD's lifespan thanks to a fresh patch
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Ship shape.

YouTuber makes the most of the unused space beneath their monitors with custom desktop aquarium with actual fish in it
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Underwater, and under-monitor.

This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source
By Jess Kinghorn published
News History painstakingly preserved.

Cozy games in May: Our release calendar and staff picks
By Lauren Morton published
Cozy calendar From Paralives to Thrifty Business, this month is going to be all about life sims and shop sims in the cozy game corner.

I don't necessarily need a CPU cooler with a screen, but for only $170 I can definitely see the argument for turning the inside of my PC case into a tiny Miku Hatsune shrine
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal There's no accounting for taste.
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