
Jess Kinghorn
Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending the last seven working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not writing about all things hardware here, she’s getting cosy with a horror classic, ranting about a cult hit to a captive audience, or tinkering with some tabletop nonsense.
Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

Keystroke lag alerts Amazon security staff that recent US-based IT hire was actually in North Korea
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Giving the game away.

The Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed wireless gaming mouse is now even cheaper than it was during the Cyber Monday sales
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal A nippy nipper with a bite taken out of the price.

80% of the world's data centres have been built in places either too hot or too cold for the hardware inside
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The numbers don't lie, but they are confusing.

Game devs charged up to 50x more for fonts by Japanese typeface maker and yes, even this might be AI's fault
By Jess Kinghorn published
News AI doesn't pay.

Add it to the pile: G.Skill issues statement on surging DRAM memory prices and the company totally blames AI
By Jess Kinghorn published
News 2026 is shaping up to be a very expensive year.

Wikiflix offers up the classics for all to enjoy: 4,000 public domain movies from the last 100 years—and I want games to get the same treatment
By Jess Kinghorn published
News A motion picture history lesson.

Kingston sounds the SSD pricing alarm as the company has seen a 246% increase in NAND wafer prices, with the biggest increase 'within the last 60 days'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News It also warns that AI's hunger for memory may cause yet another turn in the market.

The RAMpocalypse has developed a whole new style of scam: one unlucky gamer opened a sealed box of new DDR5 memory from Amazon only to find two sticks of DDR2
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Save those pennies.

Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'Slop,' summing up 12 months that have been especially soggy with AI-generated content in only four letters
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I'd rather hang AI-generated content out to dry.

Acer and Asus will also pass on surging memory costs to the consumer, highlighting a growing industry-wide consensus
By Jess Kinghorn published
News No one shall be spared by the memory apocalypse.

Samsung denies reports that it is exiting the SATA SSD consumer market
By Jess Kinghorn last updated
News A company spokesperson has described the rumours as 'false'.

Anthropic reveals that as few as '250 malicious documents' are all it takes to poison an LLM's training data, regardless of model size
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Don't sleep on this study.

Framework raises its memory prices by 50%, but says 'it is highly likely that we will need to make further price updates...whether DDR5, LPDDR5X, or GDDR'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Unfortunately, it will only get worse before it gets better.

The WD_Black SN850X is a great fit for a gaming PC and a great deal at $159
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal A last minute deal for your last minute gift shopping.

Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Slide to the left, slide to the right… CRISS-CROSS!

Noctua fans, rejoice: You can finally colour-match your 3D printed creations to that iconic colour scheme using official 3D printing filaments
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Looking like a Lindt bunny.

Lenovo, HP, and Dell said to have warned customers of imminent PC price hikes, so I hope you've already picked up that upgrade you had your heart set on
By Jess Kinghorn published
News More memory, no money.

'Just last week alone, we were notified that costs had risen by 50–100%': SSD maker Transcend further tightens its belt amid delayed Samsung and Sandisk shipments
By Jess Kinghorn published
News No one is safe from the memory apocalypse.

Ayaneo says that next up is the, err, Next II, a power-hungry handheld with a whopping 115 Wh battery
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Thank you, Next (II).

Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Gain the upperhand… with your foot.

Reports of Windows 10's death appear to have been greatly exaggerated as 29% of Steam users still cling on
By Jess Kinghorn published
News In other news, Linux still perfectly content with its sliver of the pie.

The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Mobo, mo' problems.

The best Cyber Monday deals every aspiring Streamer should know about
By Jess Kinghorn published
Cyber Monday Trust me—even though I have a face for radio.
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