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

Meta continues to insist AI spend is totally justified, potentially blowing over $8 billion on data centers
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Just because Meta keeps saying AI is paying off doesn't necessarily make it true.

Meta is still flinging the equivalent of a small country's annual GDP down the Reality Labs money pit each and every quarter
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Perhaps the next couple of billion will do the trick.

PSA: Don't execute PowerShell commands proffered by Steam forum randos, because it could infect your rig with a cryptominer
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News No judgment, just a friendly reminder.

RAM prices be damned, SK hynix's record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors' wild AI expectations
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News But is the runaway train actually slowing down?

Linux kernel patch can boost the Steam Deck's 1% low frame rate by as much as 31% in early testing
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News There's life in the old handheld yet.

Microsoft reportedly using TPM chips to weed out Windows piracy
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Spare a thought for the system administrators.

Taiwanese authorities detain Nvidia employee for alleged attempt to smuggle AI chips into China
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News The company itself has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Consumer electronics companies were already worried about securing memory next year—now, supply is predicted to plummet by 70%
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News No end in sight.

You won't have to worry about limited bandwidth or data now that Valve has fixed local network game transfers on Steam
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Sharing is caring—here's how to check your Steam client is up to date.

This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Simply the cat's pyjamas.

Micron's low power DRAM 'consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5' in AI data center workloads, but I'm not sure that's good news
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Micron finds LPDDR5X can account for less than 7% of total system power.

Memory chipmaker CXMT sees shares surge 466%, becomes one of China's most valuable listed companies right below Tencent
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'It's hard to say the optimism is sustainable.'

The fourth biggest memory manufacturer could break into America soon, and chances are you've never heard of it
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News DRAM-ing up support.

'A+, would have my soul leave my body again': One of my favorite wireless gaming headsets is now at its lowest ever price
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Keep rolling, rolling, rolling down that price.

MSI celebrates 40 year anniversary by unveiling a SEVEN GRAND LAPTOP
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News You'd need a dragon's hoard to afford this.

Google slapped with $1 billion fine for violating EU's antitrust legislation
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Continued non-compliance could result in further penalties of 'up to 5% of [Google's] total worldwide turnover'.

Lick your way to victory with the Mouth Pad, a Bluetooth device that lets you control your PC with just your tongue
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News An early prototype looked like 'a lollipop with a bunch of sensors.'

Indie game contest tasks devs with fitting their entire game on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Creativity out of some pretty strict confines.

EU court rules that VPNs are 'lawful technical tools' as part of larger copyright judgement regarding The Diary of Anne Frank
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Unexpected, but welcome.

US judge closes the book on first big AI copyright suit, ordering Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion settlement
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News The end of the story or just the start of a fresh chapter?

TSMC admits it's 'jealous' of memory chipmakers' margins, but is limiting its own price hike because its customers would not survive price increases of 'four to five times'
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News The company announces a 10 - 15% price increase, but isn't keen to emulate the memory industry's runaway pricing.

Glorious GHS InfinitePlay review
By Jess Kinghorn Published
Score: 73% This versatile set of cans impresses with its hot swappable battery system, but it's just okay otherwise.

Developer creates a password-cracking Game Boy Advance that is 'about thirty million times slower than a modern cracking rig'
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News Why? Why not?
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