Hardware

News

Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits

Deal

There's only one budget wireless hall effect controller I'd recommend right now, and my current favorite is only $30

Score: 87%

EasySMX D05 review

Score: 80%

EasySMX D10 controller review

News

This simple gaming chair bracket could have saved me years of sim racing with two wooden blocks holding my pedals in place

Score: 72%

Hyperkin Competitor review

Driven

Best PC racing wheels in 2026: my favorite direct drive and budget steering wheels for sim racing

Total control

Best PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers

Guide

How to use a PS4 controller on PC: Wired and Bluetooth

News

Redditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'

News

YouTuber builds PC side panel out of 15 Noctua fans and names it the 'Superdome', cuts temps by 20 °C

Score: 88%

Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync review

News

You can chow down on this edible thermal paste made from gold leaf and honey, and it's not as horrible for your temps as you might expect

News

YouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed 'The Fanhattan Project', performs pretty much the same as a standard fan

Score: 70%

Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync review

News

Der8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it's really fun

Score: 94%

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

Cool Breeze

Best CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU

Score: 83%

HyperX Cloud Flight 2 gaming headset review

Score: 87%

Cambridge Audio L/R S review

Score: 76%

Asus ROG Kithara headset review

Score: 71%

Asus ROG Cetra Open Wireless review

Budding gamers

The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears

Score: 88%

EarFun Air Pro 4+ earbuds review

Deal

This Logitech wireless gaming headset has the best mic you will find for $130

Score: 84%

Logitech G325 Lightspeed review

Deal

Razer's magnificent BlackShark V3 is the gaming headset we recommend time and time again, and at $120 it's the obvious choice for your next audio upgrade

Deal

The best gaming chair around is now a little bit better, thanks to Secretlab's not-so-secret sale

Take a seat

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

Score: 89%

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

Score: 82%

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

News

The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance

Take a seat

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

SPONSORED

As an awkward sitter, you may need a more dynamic ergonomic chair

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Score: 80%

AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

CES 2026

'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one

Top Desks

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

Score: 86%

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

Swanky surface

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

Luxurious

Grovemade desk review

Score: 85%

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Score: 82%

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

News

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

ALL THE SPACE

Ikea Utespelare desk review

News

Keychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch

Score: 76%

Cherry K5 Pro TMR Compact magnetic gaming keyboard review

News

Here's a keycap that's also a watch, for the discerning gamer

Score: 73%

Asus ROG Strix Morph 96 Wireless review

Keyed in

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more

Deal

You can grab a Hall effect gaming keyboard that we've consistently ranked as one of the best for $112 in Amazon's Big Spring Sale

Score 82%

Asus ROG Falchion Ace 75 HE review

Score: 70%

Corsair Vanguard Air 99 Wireless gaming keyboard review

Amicable split

Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend

News

Pulsar actually sold its 500-gram April Fools' Day joke gaming mouse, and despite looking 'extremely sluggish', it's 'really not that bad'

News

Lucky Redditor gets hands on unreleased Steelseries Rival Pro Mini, revealing another UWB wireless gaming mouse will soon hit the market

Vibin' Viper

The Razer Viper V4 Pro has reminded me that few things can beat great build quality in a mouse

Deal

Tiny mitt bandits rejoice! You can pick up the best budget wireless gaming mouse for only $35

Unbound

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on

Pinpoint

Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

Squeak-off

Logitech Superstrike vs Razer Viper V4 Pro: The battle for the competitive crown

Score: 84%

SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 review

Score: 95%

Razer Viper V4 Pro review

News

Philips and AOC's upcoming 5th-gen OLED gaming monitors were a feast for my eyes and a dire threat to my wallet

News

'Are monitors anti-inflation?': AOC argues monitors are a better upgrade than graphics cards or memory right now, which seems like the kind of thing a monitor manufacturer would say

News

Philips is bringing its 5K dual-mode gaming monitor to the West, and it comes in a neat white shell

News

'I've read your reviews': AOC says its software is 'one of the most highlighted' problems and it's 'finally, finally' updating its OSD

Deal

The best budget 4K gaming monitor is now only $299, but there's another dual-mode monitor trying to steal the show

Deal

As a dual gaming monitor connoisseur, this Acer 1080p pick would be my choice for a second panel now that it's just $90

Deals

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

News

Sony squares up to Asus and LG in the dual-mode, esports OLED gaming monitor market with a Fnatic collab

Deals

Forget the dual-mode, I want this 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with a mega discount because it looks absolutely lush

Deal

Oh, how times have changed. I'd now buy an RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with 32 GB RAM over an RTX 5070 PC with just 16 GB any day of the week in the RAMpocalypse

News

This AMD-powered, Linux-running mini PC looks like a Steam Machine disguised as a vinyl record player, without the fancy controller

deals

Best cheap gaming PC deals

News

MSI says its refreshed Raider gaming laptops have been designed to combat the one thing I hate most about portable PCs: fan noise

Deal

This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is a little low on GPU power but at $1,200, it's a lot of low on price

News

One YouTuber has built their own $950 Steam Machine, with a custom wood panel, because 'Valve was taking too long'

News

Microsoft's already pricey Surface laptops have suddenly got a whole lot pricier and you know exactly what to blame for this

News

NZXT class action lawsuit settlement includes $3 million in damages, and some buyers will get to keep their rented PCs

Why the new OLED display really makes Alienware Area-51 laptops shine

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News

If you're still battling to get your Arc B-series graphics card to play nicely with Crimson Desert, Intel's new drivers might help a little

Score: 63%

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB review (Asus Prime)

Deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

News

Apple rubberstamps an open source driver to allow Nvidia GPUs to run on Macs, though gaming isn't on the table just yet

Score: 73%

Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB review (Palit Dual)

News

Nvidia spent 1003% more on warranty claims in 2025 than the year before according to a new report, with the total cost almost reaching $900 million

News

Nvidia denies report that it is in talks to acquire a major PC company but Dell, HP, Lenovo and Asus share prices jumped at the thought

News

Not that we should be at all surprised, but Nvidia leans on AI pretty hard for speeding up how it plans and designs its next generation of GPUs

News

Crimson Desert is now somewhat playable on Intel Arc graphics cards, though Kliff's face didn't make it

Light it up!

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

Cyber Monday

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

Win or Bin?

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

Prime Day

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

Prime Day

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

Deal

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

Reactive

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Sync'd

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

News

MediaTek is 'cautiously optimistic' that discrete memory pricing will look less gloomy during 2026

News

Normal memory chips couldn't withstand the hellscape of Venus so scientists have crafted something that can

News

RAM spot prices are down by 5%, though they did spike by well over 2000% this past year

Going slow

During a memory crisis do you really need fast memory for PC gaming? No, no you do not

Don't fret

Look, 16 GB of RAM is absolutely fine for PC gaming in 2026. Though there are some caveats to that...

News

Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022

news

Samsung is cashing in on the memory crisis, as it estimates profits of over 8 times this period last year

News

Framework says stabilising memory prices are a 'temporary reprieve' and there are more cost increases to come this year

Deal

The RAMpocalypse won't end any time soon, so here are the cheapest 16 and 32 GB memory kits I'd fit in my own gaming PC

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

Score: 92%

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

News

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

Score: 88%

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

Score: 75%

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

News

Fortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS

News

'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

News

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

News

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

High speed

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

Gear of the Year

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

Cyber Monday

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

News

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

News

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'

Wi-Fine

Routers don't grab headlines like graphics cards but having a good one in your home can make a world of difference to your digital life

News

Corsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish

Score: 84%

Silverstone FLP02 case review

Score: 83%

Thermaltake View 380 WS ARGB review

Score: 76%

Lian Li Lancool 217 case review

Score: 86%

Corsair 3200D review

Score: 88%

Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition case review

Byte of the living dead

My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: 'We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC'

News

This Redditor has built a stained glass-style panel for their gaming PC with a 'magnificent and luxurious animal' on it and it is indeed magnificent and luxurious

Score: 94%

Phanteks XT V3 case review