Jess Kinghorn

Jess Kinghorn

Hardware Writer

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

The HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless floats in the funky PCG deal void.
'A+, would have my soul leave my body again': One of my favorite wireless gaming headsets is now at its lowest ever price

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News Keep rolling, rolling, rolling down that price.

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The MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition gaming laptop floats in a blue-pink gradient void.
MSI celebrates 40 year anniversary by unveiling a SEVEN GRAND LAPTOP

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News You'd need a dragon's hoard to afford this.

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A gavel on the EU flag.
Google slapped with $1 billion fine for violating EU's antitrust legislation

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News Continued non-compliance could result in further penalties of 'up to 5% of [Google's] total worldwide turnover'.

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The top half of a retainer, with a flexible copper circuit encased inside the dental resin. A small power pack is attached on the right-hand side.
Lick your way to victory with the Mouth Pad, a Bluetooth device that lets you control your PC with just your tongue

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News An early prototype looked like 'a lollipop with a bunch of sensors.'

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High angle close up view of orange laptop and a floppy disk on green background
Indie game contest tasks devs with fitting their entire game on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk

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News Creativity out of some pretty strict confines.

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Woman Using VPN On laptop For Secure Online Browsing At Home
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.

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UKRAINE - 2024/12/29: In this photo illustration, Claude AI app by Anthropic is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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?

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. TSMC is scheduled to release earnings results on Oct. 19.
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'

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News The company announces a 10 - 15% price increase, but isn't keen to emulate the memory industry's runaway pricing.

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The GHS Wireless InfinitePlay seen from various angles on a blue background. This is a wireless gaming headset from Glorious. It is black all over, save for a few subtle orange accents.
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.

Score: 73%
A Game Boy Advance that has been modded to use a password cracking utility very slowly.
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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The desktop of a battery powered PC running on Hannah Montana Linux.
Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News The best of both worlds?

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An attendee at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai sits in a chair wearing a brain-computer interface. The EEG has been mounted inside a bike helmet. They are using the BCI to play Black Myth: Wukong.
My sluggish limbs mean I'm terrible at Black Myth: Wukong on both a controller, as well as mouse and keyboard—so surely a brain-computer interface is the answer

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News Thinking 'Get good' and making it so?

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Mark Zuckerberg wearing Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
Guerilla bus stop ads are taking aim at Meta's AI glasses, and the latest stunt involves a horrifying They Live-style transforming image of Kylie Jenner

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I spy, with my little AI…

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The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro floats, with the retractable mic arm extended, in the funky PCG deal void.
At 34% off, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro still proves hot swappable batteries are a game changer for wireless headsets

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Deal For the money, I better never want to take them off.

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PORTLAND, OR - OCTOBER,16: Linus Torvalds, a software engineer and principal creator of the Linux kernel, poses for a portrait at his home in Portland, Ore. on Friday, October 16, 2015
'It's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either': Linus Torvalds addresses anti-AI sentiment in Linux development

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News 'We make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.'

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Gigabyte's BIOS screen showing Secure Boot options.
Turns out Microsoft's Secure Boot was little better than a busted lock for about a decade

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News Are you up to date?

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A selection of SSD-based 'game catridges' with colourful housing and cover art, on a desk.
Redditor fashions a 'game cartridge' system for their Steam library out of cheap SATA SSDs

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News What year is it?

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Steam Deck internals
Valve to send iFixIt more Steam Deck LCD batteries, replacements will be back in stock next week

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News How many more years of aftermarket support will the Steam Deck enjoy?

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A developer plays a Counter-Strike clone on the original PSP. They have a laptop open, displaying development code.
'Yes, that's Counter-Strike on a PSP!': Modder gets favorite PC FPS working on Sony's 22-year-old handheld console

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News That's one way to introduce a new lease on life to original hardware.

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Microsoft campus
More Windows security updates to come as Microsoft leverages AI vulnerability detection, but 'only the highest-confidence findings reach the engineering team'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Humans still make the key decisions and handle fixes, though.

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A Steam Machine and Steam Controller, side-by-side in front of a TV
Steam Machine compatibility checks are here, though not every game on the store enjoys a rating

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News Apparently Valve is 'still learning' about compatibility for years-old games.

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The SK Hynix Semiconductor Inc. logo is displayed at the company's plant during a media tour organized by Korea Industrial Complex Corp. (KICOX) in Cheongju, South Korea, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. KICOX, which develops and manages industrial complexes and support for resident enterprises as a public company under South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, held a media tour to the plant
'Customer demand will remain higher than our supply capacity even beyond 2030': SK hynix CEO predicts memory supply crisis may run even longer than we feared

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News What a difference a weekend makes.

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A surreal photo where a Steam Deck handheld gaming pc has been placed over the top of a much too small frying pan. Someone is attempting to flip the Steam Deck with a grey, silicone spatula.
Handheld gaming PCs are cooked

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Counting down Fancy a spot of pessimism, perchance?

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Counting down
Flag of China
Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News A new challenger has appeared.

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Valve's new Steam Machine during a visit to Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington. The Steam Machine is a compact living room gaming PC.
E-Ink faceplates for the Steam Machine are coming, but not from Valve

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News I am going to put the filthiest fanfiction on this thing.

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