Nick Evanson
Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site. He went on to do the same at Madonion, helping to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark (MadOnion rebranded) full-time, as editor-in-chief for its gaming and hardware section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug. Cue four years at TechSpot.com and over 100 long articles on anything and everything. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days?
Latest articles by Nick Evanson
The $3,499 Apple Vision Pro finally has an actual release date, and will be on sale February 2 this year
By Nick Evanson published
news Just remember that it's a revolutionary spatial computer, okay? Absolutely not AR goggles.
Intel's Lunar Lake is on track for a 2024 appearance, along with significant IPC gains in the CPU core and three times more AI performance from GPU and NPU
By Nick Evanson published
CES 2024 Little Lunar will be launching in low-power, lightweight laptops. Lovely.
'World's first gaming processor with an AI accelerator': Intel's Arrow Lake will be coming to desktop PCs in the second half of this year
By Nick Evanson published
CES 2024 I suspect AMD may have something to say about that claim, though.
Ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 storage is heading to handheld PCs, thanks to Phison's new 2230 SSD controller
By Nick Evanson published
CES 2024 Laptop, office PCs, and top-tier gaming rigs and workstations are getting new chips, too.
AMD announces the $329 RX 7600 XT, bringing 16GB of VRAM to its lowliest RDNA 3 chip
By Nick Evanson published
CES 2024 But there's not a whole lot eXTra in this new GPU, though.
At long last, AMD updates its desktop APU range with the new Ryzen 8000G series: Zen 4, RDNA 3, all in one neat package
By Nick Evanson published
CES 2024 SFF builders will be happy but outright gaming enthusiasts might be a little disappointed, though.
Windows Copilot doesn't get an invite to the party as HP goes all-in on AI with its 2024 Spectre and Omen laptop range
By Nick Evanson published
CES 2024 Decent entry-level gaming across the range is also a new thing. Yep, even on the Spectre models.
A year of constant updates to Windows 11 hasn't done anything to shift people away from Windows 10
By Nick Evanson published
news Will a potential Windows 12 launch this year fare any better?
The PC Gamer tech team's New Year's resolutions
By Nick Evanson published
Promises, promises What do you mean? Of course we'll stick to them!
The PC Gamer Needlessly Terrible Hardware Naming Awards 2023: Our favourite awful names for otherwise reasonable products
By Andy Edser published
Awful It's award season here at PC Gamer, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point out some of the very best terrible, awful, no-good product names we've seen.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023: The winners
By Dave James published
The winners All the winners from the best tech released and tested in the past 12 months of PC gaming.
What we want to see from PC gaming tech in 2024
By Dave James published
Heart's desire The past 12 months haven't been the most inspiring, so join us in hoping for better from the year ahead.
PC Gamer's top hardware review scores of 2023, plus the five lowest we've issued
By Nick Evanson published
90+ We're looking back at the tech that hit our magic 90% mark this year, as well as those that were a long way off target.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headsets of 2023
By Nick Evanson published
Gear of the year Amazing audio, magnificent microphones, cosseting comfort: Three crown contenders have all these but which will win?
Forget your fancy monitors and GPUs. The best hardware released this year is a mid range laptop CPU and I'll fight anyone who disagrees
By Nick Evanson published
Gear of the year Well, fight is a bit of a strong term. How about a stern word or two over a cup of hot tea?
PC Gamer's biggest hardware stories of 2023: AI wars, quantum lies, ray tracing magic, storage matters, and more
By Nick Evanson published
2023 in hardware A journey across 12 months of news that you, our discerning readers, read the most often.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best CPUs of 2023
By Nick Evanson published
Gear of the year What's the best gaming CPU of the year? Here are the three nominees we've selected for that honour.
No amount of GPU refreshes are going to fix my disappointment in the current generation. And I say that as someone who actually bought an RTX 4070 Ti
By Nick Evanson last updated
GPU grumblings Only a complete pricing and model segmentation reset could do that.
A new video encoding/decoding API can replace AMD and Nvidia's encoders on all platforms, truly one API to rule them all
By Nick Evanson published
news And you shouldn't have to wait long before the best video software makes use of it.
This bargain 1TB SSD is the perfect blend of size and performance, and is a steal at just $60
By Nick Evanson published
deal You'll need a PCIe 4.0 CPU and motherboard to enjoy its maximum speed, though.
The reveal and release dates for the new RTX 40-series Super cards have been leaked and January's going to be a busy ol' month
By Nick Evanson published
news Not all of them are going to be worth testing or buying, mind you.
This excellent $1,030 RTX 4070 gaming laptop is what happens when AMD and Nvidia play nice and will arrive just after Christmas
By Nick Evanson last updated
deal Even the 16:10 screen gets to join in with the fun.
NASA creates cat meme history with a space laser blasting a clip of Taters over 30 million kilometres
By Nick Evanson published
news If this doesn't become an Easter egg in future games, I'm going to be really disappointed.