Hardware

Score: 86%

Moza AB9 FFB Base + MH16 Flightstick + MTP Throttle review

Flawed potential

Steam Controller re-review: A fresh look at Valve's flawed but influential 10-year-old controller

News

Open source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator

Switch pad

How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC

News

Arc Raiders' overpowered aim assist gets stronger at high frame rates, and I feel like I'm cheating when I use it

Gear of the Year

I enjoy touching all the hardware bits that pass through PCG's offices, but this bit of kit was all but made for my upsettingly small baby hands

News

Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games

Cyber Monday

From TMR sticks to budget picks, these are the nine best game controller deals in the Cyber Monday sales

Cyber Monday

Switching to a leverless fighting game controller is the smartest thing I ever did, and one of the best in the biz is at its lowest-ever price

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

Air dried

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers

News

Noctua once again delays its fan-equipped mouse and 140 mm desk fan but we're still on for the launch of its all-in-one liquid cooler soon

CES 2026

Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler

Gear of the Year

I know I'll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn't ask for more money

News

RAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face

News

The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group

Black Friday

The Hyte Thicc Q60 is the most ridiculous liquid cooler I've ever used and it's now over half off for Black Friday

Score: 84%

Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review

News

New research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies

News

Artist scales retro speaker up to ridiculous proportions: 'Is this a really stupid project? Yes'

Score: 68%

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review

Untethered

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself

Quality cans

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

News

JLab has made a ridiculously large set of headphones that function as a gigantic Bluetooth speaker, which can be 'worn around the neck or placed on a table'

Score: 86%

Logitech G522 Lightspeed gaming headset review

Score: 86%

Audeze Maxwell 2 review

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: 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

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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

Cyber Week

Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

Cyber Week

Want a perfect perch but without the gaming bling? This Flexispot ErgoX office chair is the cheapest it's ever been, now just $250

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

Score: 74%

Corsair Galleon 100 SD review

News

Keychron's made a concrete keeb: 'Each keystroke carries industrial rhythm... elevating the experience with marble-like smoothness and auditory-visual harmony'

Deal

The next sales season is still months away, but the best gaming keyboard around is now as cheap as it was last Black Friday

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These Logitech keyboards provide the right feel for any player

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Deal

Any gaming setup will look infinitely posher when you slap this classy wood-trimmed Keychron keyboard on your desk

News

Razer launches Synapse Web for browser-based peripheral management, but it's very limited and buggy right now in beta

Score: 75%

Asus ROG Azoth 96 HE review

Click Clack

Best mechanical keyboards in 2026: The clacky boards I'd buy in a heartbeat

Freedom

Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2026: my top picks for cable-free typing delights

Deal

You can still snap up either of these OLED gaming laptops with proper discounts in the middle of the current pricing disaster, which feels like a small miracle to me

Deals

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

Score: 66%

Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop review

Portable powerhouses

Best gaming laptop 2026: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend.

News

HP has a gaming laptop subscription service, where you pay monthly to borrow a rig but never get the option to own it

Deal

I'm genuinely astonished that this $1,299 RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop deal is back on the menu in 2026, but my goodness I'll take it

Deal

This $1,299 gaming laptop has a fire-breathing AMD CPU, a proper-spec RTX 5070 mobile, and my hopes and dreams contained inside

5 things you can do with the Area-51's Thunderbolt 5 port

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Deals

I've found a cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop you'll actually want to buy, an increasingly rare thing in these uncertain times

Pinpoint

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

News

I've found a nifty gaming mouse comparison tool that's the next best thing for communicating hand-feel, beyond sticking my mitts straight through the monitor

Score: 79%

QPAD Obsidian Glass mouse pad review

News

You don't need G Hub running to save or switch between the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike's settings

Squeaky clean

Behind the curtain of mouse development: from hand-carving to mechanical flinging, here's how Logitech makes and tests its gaming mice

Deal

Torn between buying a new gaming mouse or a Stream Deck? Tick both boxes with this mouse for only $80 in the Presidents' Day sales

News

Haptic click sceptics take heed, the Logitech Superstrike has already got a Guinness World Record

News

'We need to do lightweight, but fine, what else?' says Logitech chief engineer, and after getting tons of hours in with the Superstrike I agree the new tech is worth a heavier gaming mouse

HITS the spot

Underneath the Superstrike: How Logitech has kick-started the next generation of gaming mouse tech

deal

I'm surprised how far 1440p IPS monitors have dropped in price: Here's one for just $130 and it's got a 180 Hz refresh rate

Deals

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

News

Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense

Deal

This MSI 144Hz IPS 4K gaming monitor is just $200 and even offers a sweet dual mode to double that refresh rate

News

After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage

deal

This Acer Predator gaming monitor is the best value OLED panel right now at less than $400

News

It's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'

Expansive

Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2026: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers

deal

Ultrawide, curved and a whopping 45 inches: This huge 1440p monitor has dropped to its lowest ever price

deals

Best cheap gaming PC deals

Deal

iBuyPower's President's Day sale means this 'superb all-AMD gaming PC' is now $250 cheaper than when we reviewed it a week ago

News

All hail the Bro MegaOrb: A custom-built, water-cooled Threadripper, RTX Pro 6000 monster that costs $60,000 or roughly the same as 16 GB of DDR5-5200 at today's prices

Deal

This is the cheapest gaming PC actually worth buying right now—$899 for an RTX 5060, DDR5 RAM, and a 1 TB SSD

News

'Probably the worst build of my entire life': This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned

DIY

Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse

Score: 87%

iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 review

Deal

RX 9070 XT gaming PCs were already good value, but they're even better now that well-priced RTX 5070 Ti machines are rare

Deal

I've found you seven gaming PCs, all packing 32 GB of DDR5 memory and defiantly priced against the growing RAMpocalypse

News

Nvidia's DLSS upscaling beats AMD's FSR and plain old native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers

Deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

News

A top overclocker has managed to destroy a $5,000 MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z with the fury of a thousand suns. Well, the default voltage of a 2,500 W extreme overclocking BIOS

News

Intel is still committed to evolving its Xe graphics architecture, though it's only talking about AI data centers right now

News

Intel has now rolled out XeSS 3 multi-frame generation to every Arc-powered GPU, after its first foray only on Panther Lake

Third time's a charm

Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip

News

We all knew the RTX 5090 ran hot but not like this: Chinese gamer records the moment their GPU catches alight

News

MSI's $5,000+ Lightning Z RTX 5090 has seen real-world tests and hit a whopping 1076 W power draw in Cyberpunk 2077

Score: 72%

Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua OC Edition review

News

Surprise, surprise: The ROG Xbox Ally X just got a AU$200 price hike in Australia

News

Valve breaks its silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity and yes, it's because of the RAM and storage crisis

News

Ayaneo celebrates the Chinese New Year with the launch of a new customer service improvement plan, with US-based repair facilities currently being tested

Portable PC

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

News

All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis

news

Ayaneo's new Strix Halo handheld PC will cost up to $4,299, but it's the cheaper AI Max 385 model that has grabbed my attention anyways

Handhelds when?

Panther Lake is simply begging to be stuffed inside a benchmark-crushing gaming handheld, but the price tag is likely to be brutal

News

Nintendo president is 'carefully considering the situation' around memory prices as research firm predicts Switch 2 price hike

News

Here comes an AMD Ryzen AI 400-powered handheld PC that's super cute, OLED and has an 80 Wh battery

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

And I thought DDR5 prices were bad: Samsung is apparently charging $700 for its latest AI-empowering HBM product

News

Yes, Chinese DRAM is fine for gaming but don't think for one moment that any of it is a bargain

News

'As DRAM prices continue to rise, protecting product authenticity has become increasingly important': Corsair changes Vengeance DDR5 packaging in bid to deter scams

News

Relief that the worst is over or just the calm before the hurricane continues? Some reports suggest that DRAM prices have plateaued or even fallen

News

Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says

News

The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won't help DRAM prices until 2028, if then

News

Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I'm wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine

News

G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over 'deceptive' RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing

News

Oh great, now copper prices are 'surging' and threatening to make PC hardware even more expensive

News

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

News

Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out

News

If your Ryzen-powered PC has an AM5 ASRock motherboard and sometimes just won't boot, then rescue is at hand in the form of a new BIOS update

News

New Intel 900-series leak suggests there are three upcoming motherboard chipsets gamers should care about

News

Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'

News

A stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner

Best Mobo

Best gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today

Mini marvels

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2026: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested

News

Update your MyAsus software now because there's a fix for a nasty hack that could easily ruin your day