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Fractal Design Scape gaming headset

The Fractal Design Scape feels like a gaming headset from the future, which makes it the best thing I've tested in 2035. I mean, this year

By Andy Edser published

Gear of the Year I've seen the light, and I don't want to go back.

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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025

By Jacob Fox published

Gear of the year Three rodent contenders, but only one winner for the year.

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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboard of 2025

By Jacob Fox published

Gear of the year Three fantastic keyboards from this year, but there can only be one winner.

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PC gaming on Arm chips didn't quite happen in 2025, but the die is cast for an epic battle with x86 CPUs in the next few years

By Jeremy Laird published

Arm-y There's a veritable CPU Arm-y marching towards the PC.

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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

By Nick Evanson published

Gear of the Year No joke, it's been the best upgrade I've done in years.

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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming motherboard of 2025

By Nick Evanson published

Gear of the year Motherboards are the only way that Intel stands any chance of winning an award this year.

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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming CPU of 2025

By Nick Evanson published

Gear of the year It's another slam dunk for AMD, of course, but that doesn't mean there's an obvious winner.

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PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby

By Andy Edser published

Hard times Money, money, money.

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Three Steelseries QcK Performance mouse pads on a desk with a PC Gamer Personal Pick 2025 label on top

My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is

By Jacob Fox published

Gear of the Year Yes, a humble mouse pad.

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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best SSD of 2025

By Jess Kinghorn published

Gear of the year I see three SSD queens before me—but which one will take the crown home?

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