Hardware

A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill

Forza Horizon 6 works best with a racing wheel, so I've found nine Amazon Prime Day deals to put you in pole position

The best high-end PC controllers used to cost a king's ransom, now it's a little more affordable thanks to Amazon Prime Day

This discounted controller puts the standard Xbox pad to shame for just $64 as Amazon Prime Day wraps up

The most satisfying controller I've ever used is on sale at its lowest ever price for Prime Day

Looking for a Forza-ready, direct drive racing wheel for less? This $379 Moza bundle is astonishingly good value for Prime Day

The controller I use every day in Forza Horizon 6 is now just $43 thanks to Prime Day, so you too can do the 8BitDo

Top-rated SCUF controllers! Now 26% off for Prime Day

Steam Controller demand is so high that new reservations won't be fulfilled until 2027

Chill out your toasty gaming PC and beat the heat with these 12 deals on fans, liquid coolers, cases, and more from just $5

Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling

Be Quiet Dark Rock 6 and Dark Rock Pro 6 review

Rein the heat with three of the best AIO CPU coolers around, now all with massive discounts thanks to Prime Day

Noctua's AIO liquid cooler is here but hooo boy is it expensive

Hyte's new prototype AIO cooler looks to pack funky RGB and transparent shrouds into an affordable package

Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one

Cooler Master is playing around with a 2000 W CPU and GPU cooling solution with four huge 180 mm fans

While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler

This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'

Amazon Prime Day gaming headset deals

A gaming headset we summed up as smooth in every way is down to $81 this Prime Day

My favorite wireless gaming headset is now just $76 this Prime Day, though not in my preferred colorway

The gaming headset with one of the best microphones in the biz is now at its lowest ever price in the Prime Day sales

One of the best upgrades I've made for competitive gaming still costs just $24 for Prime Day

'I went to have lunch and forgot it was on': This super comfortable gaming headset is now just $43 in the Prime Day sale

These excellent gaming earbuds I use every single day are at their lowest price for Prime Day

You can pry the Fractal Design Scape from my cold, dead hands—or buy your own with a $30 discount this Prime Day

LiberNovo Omni Pro chair review

Upgrade your gaming setup on the cheap with possibly the best Prime Day gaming chair deal

I've just finished reviewing this great office chair and—oh, hey look, there's $50 knocked off the price right now

Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review

Secretlab's new Atlas chair is cheaper, slimmer than the Titan Evo and I've been sitting comfortably in it for the past couple days

Secretlab's CEO is getting tough on copycat chairs and doesn't feel pressure to adopt AI: 'If we were owned by outside investors, you can bet that AI will be somehow jammed down our throats'

I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming

Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'

From Ultramarines to Batman and Minecraft creepers, there's a dazzling selection of designs for our best gaming chair pick on discount in Secretlab's mega sale

Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

Turtle Beach Command Series KB7 TKL gaming keyboard review

Logitech G316 X (tactile) gaming keyboard review

With a huge 31% Prime Day discount, this Asus ROG gaming keyboard is a great deal for anyone wanting a fast and feature-rich button basher

This gaming keyboard is a class act, and it's waiting for you this Prime Day with its top hat askew and its monocle popped

Our pick for the best budget keyboard packs in magnetic switches and an 8K polling rate for only $32 this Prime Day

This lubed-up optical gaming keyboard has been my daily driver for two years, and it beats out boards three times its price at just $80

Melgeek Real81 review

I was genuinely surprised by the discounted price of Logitech's Genshin Impact-themed TKL gaming keyboard, thanks to a 56% price cut at Amazon

Thanks to a substantial 27% discount, this ROG Falchion gaming keyboard is a seriously tempting deal for anyone aiming for an all-white theme

Asus ProArt Mouse MD301

Logitech Mobi Fold mouse review

The best gaming mouse is 'a superior squeaker in pretty much every respect' and its finally enjoying a $20 discount

The gaming mouse I use everyday weighs only 55 grams, enjoys a 100-hour battery, and can be yours for just $70

If you're looking for a performance-first gaming mouse for less, the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 is ready for you this Prime Day

For just $70, this MMO mouse keeps all of my macros within thumb's reach while also feeding my streaming career delusions of grandeur

This half price gaming mouse will feel right at home on the desk of anyone who prefers substance over style

You probably haven't heard of this gaming mouse, but it's just as high-quality as the big brand ones and still costs only $50 this Prime Day

Price drop: This gaming mouse is ridiculously light, capable and currently its lowest price ever for Prime Day

Budget OLED versus budget mini-LED: The best real-world PC gaming monitor tech tested

Whether you have a need for speed or require retina-melting brightness, I've got two cracking deals on budget gaming monitors for you

KTC 25M1 400 Hz gaming monitor review

It looks like monitor manufacturers can download bloatware without consent that will serve you pop-up ads

This $110 1440p gaming monitor is the absolute cheapest I'd buy with my own cash right now

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Asus ROG Strix XG129C mini monitor review

Great gaming monitor deals are like buses: You get none for ages, then three turn up at once

Amazon Prime Day gaming monitor deals

Steam Machine compatibility checks are here, though not every game on the store enjoys a rating

The gaming PC market is a mess right now but this RTX 5070 rig is still at the same reasonable price it's been at for months

Best cheap gaming PC deals

Handheld gaming PCs are cooked

Asus ZenBook A16 review

E-Ink faceplates for the Steam Machine are coming, but not from Valve

Geekom A9 Max AI AMD Mini PC review

Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam machine, y'know for the three people who managed to buy one and inexplicably want a different OS

Best deals on gaming laptops

More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x

Legendary dad fixes their kid's dead RTX 3070 by ripping the capacitor out of an old radio and slapping it on the side, saving over $100 in the process

Seasonic has removed the RTX 50-series Super GPU variants from its PSU wattage calculator. Was it just guesswork or actual info revealed too soon?

Do not buy an RTX 5060, not while the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB is inexplicably cheaper

Cheap graphics card deals this week

This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card

AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon

New production runs of Nvidia's much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain't right

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

This smart lamp changed my gaming setup for the better and it's finally below $100 this Cyber Monday, just don't pick the wrong model

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

I may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal

As if I needed any more RGB lights, this Govee x Evangelion light kit we gave a 91% is still $60 off for Cyber Monday

I find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

'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

Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation

What memory crisis? 79% of PC Gamer readers are rocking 32 GB or more RAM in their gaming rigs

New IDC report claims worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% but revenue didn't, as 'vendors are pushing through price increases faster than demand is dropping'

'Thank you again rural Walmart': Redditor picks up 32 GB of memory for $50, twice

Analysts think SK hynix's DRAM and NAND prices will finally drop by the end of 2028, but not before a huge rise over the next year

Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible

SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over

With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

The biggest upgrade I did last year was setting up a Wi-Fi 7 mesh network and with this huge Prime Day deal, you can too

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The best PC upgrade I did this year was switching everything to Wi-Fi 7 and now you can too with these Cyber Monday deals

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'

Thermaltake Retro 360 TG case review

This is by far the prettiest Phanteks PC case I've ever built in, and it's at its lowest ever price

This bright yellow PC case is a sweet little bumblebee at only $130, and I take no responsibility if you've now got a certain song stuck in your head

I'm so bored of looking at plain black hardware this Prime Day, but thankfully this head-turning PC case is only $100

Phanteks XT View Matrix case review

Havn is making a smaller, lighter version of the excellent HS 420, with a few convenient upgrades too

Phanteks shows off PC case that bucks the fish tank trend in favour of greater thermal efficiency and giving your GPU its own little room

We got our eyes and noses on a new PC case with a magnetic essential oils diffuser to make your gaming den smell less like a gaming den

Be Quiet! unveils huge new PC case designed for 'maximum performance' with room for up to seven HDDs