Hardware

Best PC controllers in 2026: I've tested lots of gamepads and these get my recommendation

Someone has managed to run Zork on the Steam Controller's internal hardware, but it's risky business

This wild new PC pro controller runs its own custom OS across a 2.79-inch color display slapped beneath the thumbsticks

The latest Windows 11 update is borking some multiplayer games, but Arc Raiders' developer has a quick workaround

GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl Wireless Controller for PC and Xbox

Redditor buys what looks to be a prototype Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, posts about it on Reddit, then the thread goes dark

The humble Wii Nunchuck has been turned into a video editing tool because it's 'one of the most ergonomic things ever made'

Valve explains clever shortcut for the Steam Controller's Grip Sense, and I'm starting to think it's a killer feature

Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the '90s

Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2026: I test all the latest AIO coolers and these are my recommendations

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: I've tested loads of coolers and these are my top picks

Noctua NL-LC1 liquid cooler review

Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'

Cooler Master V8 Ace 3DHP review

Arctic Freezer 36-S review

Best PC fans in 2026: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

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

This wireless headset may not have cat ears, but I can overlook its fashion crimes for its 300-hour battery and lowest ever price

Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

Best PC speakers in 2026: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers

Creative XF1 speaker review

Free yourself from the tyranny of cables and go wireless with any of these six gaming headsets starting from $49

Why Kali Audio’s LP-UNF studio-caliber speakers make so much sense for PC gaming

Razer's BlackShark V3 is the best gaming headset right now and with almost $50 off, it's the only one I'd recommend

PowerA LucidSound LS500/P review

'A+, would have my soul leave my body again': One of my favorite wireless gaming headsets is now at its lowest ever price

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested loads of gaming chairs and these are my top picks

Boulies EP200 review

I've only seen this excellent budget gaming chair as cheap as this once before... and that was years ago

Secretlab Atlas review

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

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

Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL wired mechanical gaming keyboard

Keychron K8 Ultra 8K review

'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes

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

Asus ROG Azoth Extreme Edition 20 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

AngryMiao AM Infinity.97 mouse review

Razer Naga V3 Pro review

Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20 review

These could be the first leaked images of the new Logitech Superstrike, which looks rather dashing in all-black

MMO heads rejoice, Razer is bringing out the Naga V3 Pro with upgraded switches, loads of customizability and a ridiculous DPI

Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition review

Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future

It's time to ditch that dull gaming mouse and pick up a scorching-hot squeaker for less, with one of these nine options starting at just $22

Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory

This $299 gaming monitor has the lot: QD-OLED, 1440p, 240 Hz, FreeSync Premium, and a 0.03 ms response time

There are simply too many great gaming monitor deals right now, so here are five of my favorites

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Tests show newer OLED TVs can still experience significant burn-in because they're much brighter, proving that you can't have your cake and eat it

I've been loving this super-cinematic 4K HDR projector for movie and game nights for years and it's now half-price with this handy dandy discount code

OLED monitors more popular than ever says analyst firm, which makes sense as one of the few good deals left in PC gaming

The best budget ultrawide gaming monitor we've tested is now just $250 and a bargain at that price

Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM gaming monitor review

Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself

RTX 5070 gaming PCs look to be the last bastion for midrange rigs and here are three of the best deals on them I can find

Best cheap gaming PC deals

Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

Best gaming PCs in 2026: We've tested the best current-gen gaming PCs and these are our picks

Acer Predator Helios NEO 16S AI gaming laptop review

The new Framework 12 laptop's secret weapon is its battery life courtesy of Intel's Wildcat Lake

Best deals on gaming laptops

Intel might be cooking up a budget-friendly handheld chip but I'd still be surprised if it's cheap enough or fast enough to matter

I didn't think I'd see an RX 9070 XT gaming PC for $1,500 again in 2026 but I'm not complaining after spotting this one

There's a looming GPU supply crisis, which means prices are likely to get a whole lot worse. And it's not just because of memory

Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now

Don't tell Nvidia: 56% of you are willing to pay over $600 for your next graphics card... and 19% would spend over $1000 😮

The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB currently costs more than the RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT, and I know which one I'd pick

Cheap graphics card deals this week

We've been tracking graphics card prices for exactly one year and it's never been worse than this

The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balance

It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else

EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'

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

Chinese RAM hits 9000 MT/s and even matches the speed and latency of the memory in our western gaming PCs

Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'

A researcher says 'we just undid about 20 years of progress' when it comes to memory prices, so I broke out my calculator and compared actual RAM kits from 2007 to 2026

Corsair isn't rolling in money from its mega-expensive RAM kits—and it's all thanks to higher component costs and lower demand

Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis

Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight

NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix

Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a 'severe' memory supply crisis next year

RAM prices be damned, SK hynix's record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors' wild AI expectations

Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

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

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'

This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen

Gaming PC cases are still being hit with the discount stick right now, so I've rounded up nine of the best deals starting at just $40

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