Hardware

Score: 80%

EasySMX D10 controllerreview

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

Guide

How to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Deal

The Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 wired gaming keyboard is now only $160, a deal that's all the sweeter when you discover it's a 2-in-1 device perfect for content creators

News

Mode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot

Score: 75%

Gravastar Mercury V60 Pro review

Score: 80%

MacBook Neo review

Is an Alienware Area-51 laptop really for you? Your questions answered

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Deal

I've found an RTX 5070 Acer gaming laptop for $1,250, and thanks to a much-improved chassis design it's a whole lot nicer than you might expect

Deals

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

OLED vs. IPS: How to pick the right Area-51 laptop display for you

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News

New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance

News

Asus CFO Nick Wu thinks Apple's MacBook Neo is 'certainly a shock to the entire market'

News

As if PC hardware news couldn't get any gloomier, one research report suggests mainstream laptop prices could rise by as much as 40%

Deal

One of the fastest RTX 5080 gaming laptops we've ever tested has $950 knocked off the price

News

2026 is shaping up to be a golden year for gaming mice, as Razer's battery-boosting FrameSync adds more goodies to the pot

News

Razer's web-based gaming mouse and keyboard software remains 'in Beta while development continues' despite support for the Viper V4 Pro

News

Razer's new Viper V4 Pro could be as big of a deal for competitive gamers as the Logitech Superstrike, even without those haptic clicks

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Is the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike good enough for the pros?

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Squeakware

Gaming mouse software should stay out of your way and it's the smaller manufacturers that seem to have received that memo

Score: 89%

Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini review

Boom and bust

The one thing using a $1,337 gaming mouse has taught me is: we've come a long way from the old Razer Boomslang, baby

Score: 68%

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Wireless CF review

Unbound

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

Deal

Our favorite budget 1440p gaming monitor that goes up to 210 Hz is just a touch over $150 right now

News

Say what you want about burn-in, sales of OLED PC monitors surged by 92% in 2025

Deal

Thanks to Amazon's Big Spring Sale, this glorious 1440p OLED gaming monitor is now the cheapest it's ever been

News

LG claims its new 1-120 Hz auto-refresh rate LCD display for laptops extends battery life by 48% and helps the new Dell XPS hit 31 hours

Deal

The Amazon Big Spring Sale may be on but it's actually Newegg offering the best OLED gaming monitor deal right now

Deals

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

Score: 80%

Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG gaming monitor review

Deal

This LG ultrawide 1440p gaming monitor is the cheapest I'd actually buy right now, at $270

Deal

This $350 27-inch OLED gaming monitor is the cheapest we've ever seen, and proof that the best screen tech on the planet is finally reaching reasonable prices

deals

Best cheap gaming PC deals

Deal

Screw you, RAMpocalypse, the Spring Sale just delivered an RTX 5060 machine for less than $860 WITH 32 GB OF MEMORY

Deal

This RX 9070 XT gaming PC not only has 32 GB of fast DRAM, but it also boasts a $535 discount. Take that, RAMpocalypse

Deal

Even in a global memory crisis you can get a whole PC gaming setup on the cheap if you go pre-built

Deal

This AMD RX 9070 XT and 7800X3D gaming PC is somehow beating last year's prices at $1,750

Deal

This RAMpocalypse-resisting RX 9060 XT gaming PC has 16 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of DDR5 memory with a discount of over $250

DIY

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

News

Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'

Deal

This RTX 5070 gaming PC packs 2 TB SSD storage and 32 GB speedy memory for a genuinely reasonable price in this great RAMpocalypse

News

Intel launches the Arc Pro B70 graphics card based on the Big Battlemage GPU we've been waiting for forever but it's for AI, not gaming

Deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

News

'Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers': New Blood CEO on fighting against DLSS 5

News

Arc Raiders is a shining beacon of hope in the darkest times of the RAMpocalypse, proving 8 GB budget graphics cards don't have to miss out on glorious graphics

News

Sony reveals that its new PSSR upscaling for the Playstation 5 Pro has the same 'core' as AMD's FSR Redstone but that doesn't necessarily mean older AMD PC graphics cards are set to get an FSR upgrade

News

'I don't love AI slop myself' says Nvidia chief Jensen Huang: 'I'm empathetic towards what [gamers] are thinking. That's just not what DLSS 5 is trying to do'

News

Pearl Abyss working on bringing Arc GPU support to Crimson Desert, with Intel 'ready to assist'

News

I really thought Nvidia's DLSS 5 was going to be smarter than this

News

Crimson Desert will not boot on Intel Arc graphics cards and users are being encouraged to refund the game

News

Pearl Abyss says to roll back your GPU driver if you're struggling to get Crimson Desert working on your ROG Xbox Ally X

News

'Continuing to sell this product is no longer sustainable': Ayaneo has suspended pre-orders of its uber-powerful Next 2 gaming handheld after costs approached 'twice the price we originally set'

Nintendo is re-releasing the Switch 2 in the EU with a replaceable battery—and it's high time handheld gaming PCs followed suit

News

No, AMD isn't abandoning Ryzen Z1 chip series: Lenovo says it's working with AMD on handheld gaming PC updates until 2029

News

Lenovo is going long with a foldable 12-inch handheld gaming PC concept

Score: 63%

Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review

Portable PC

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

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

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

Yes, some DDR5 RAM prices have dropped recently—but I wouldn't pop the champagne just yet

News

Google says its new algorithm reduces AI memory overhead by 6x which could be good news for the RAMpocalypse but bad news for Micron and co

Warped speed

Intel's new 200K Plus chips support ultra-fast DRAM out of the box but as my tests show, there's little benefit for most PC gamers in using warp-speed stuff

News

The memory crisis certainly isn't ending soon, as Micron confirm 'demand significantly in excess of our available supply for the foreseeable future'

News

Forget about PCs or LLMs, Micron says driverless cars and humanoid bots will soon be gobbling up 300 GB of RAM per device

News

You know it's bad when RAM manufacturers launch dummy kits to make it look as though you have dual-channel memory when you actually don't

News

One Australian gamer was denied a replacement for DRAM kit bought just two years prior and was only offered a refund of original price, four times less than its cost today

News

'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research

News

Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI

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

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