Hardware

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

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

Moza AB9 FFB Base + MH16 Flightstick + MTP Throttle review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Logitech G325 Lightspeed review

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

Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review

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

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

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review

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

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

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

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

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

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

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

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

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AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

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

Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

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

Ikea Utespelare desk review

Gravastar Mercury V60 Pro review

Cherry Xtrfy MX 8.2 Pro TMR TKL review

As an ergonomic keyboard skeptic, I made the switch this month and it's so much easier than I expected

Wooting 60HE v2 review

'Our most uncompromising keyboard ever built': Razer has unveiled a new signature edition version of its Huntsman keyboard, but I can't get over the price

Corsair Galleon 100 SD review

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

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

These Logitech keyboards provide the right feel for any player

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I'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows

As hardware prices make heads spin, Apple of all companies has just announced a new MacBook laptop for only $599

Acer Nitro V 16 AI gaming laptop review

Apple somehow just doubled the amount of storage in the new MacBook Air M5 base model to 512 GB despite the memory crisis

This RTX 5070 gaming laptop feels like one of the last of a dying breed with 32 GB of DDR5 and a 240 Hz display for $1,300

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

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

Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop review

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

I think I've found my gaming mouse heaven but it's on the other side of the world in Tokyo

A rep for a major mouse company thinks half of gaming mice will be like the Superstrike in three years

This upcoming gaming mouse weighs just over 28 grams without poking holes in it

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

Logitech's budget wireless gaming mouse is down to a phenomenal $27, making it arguably the best value rodent out there right now

The Logitech Superstrike has allowed me to get excited over some genuinely new PC gaming technology for the first time in what feels like forever

Mchose L7 Pro+ review

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

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

After two years and over 6,000 hours, Monitors Unboxed's long-term OLED gaming monitor test shows increasing burn-in

If you've been looking for an excuse to upgrade to an ultrawide monitor, this huge curved 1440p panel is the one I'd go for on sale

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

A redditor who found their exact gaming monitor in Resident Evil Requiem finds Reddit image of their monitor inside a monitor inside a monitor in Resident Evil Requiem and now my head hurts

Experience ultra-gaming with MSI’s new class of ultrawide, ultrafast OLED Monitors

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Find the QD-OLED monitor that puts you inside your favorite game

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Now just $350, this 27-inch 1440p OLED gaming monitor is not only the cheapest it's ever been, but it's also a brilliant upgrade

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

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

This is 100% the gaming PC I would buy in these tech-starved times

Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the 'sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028', along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026

One Redditor has 3D-printed a big yellow air duct to attach to their GPU, and the results are middling: It 'does nothing but it looks cool'

This creator extraordinaire has built a gaming PC attached to a Victorian cast-iron radiator that is fully integrated into the cooling system, and I am in complete awe

Holy RAMpocalypse! Here's an RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC with a load of RAM and SSD storage, all inexplicably at last year's price

Best cheap gaming PC deals

I have to ask what this prebuilt gaming PC is doing with 32 GB of DDR5 RAM—but for only $1,235, I can afford to ask fewer questions

Acer and Asus' German websites are down in wake of lawsuit, but Acer says its own will 'be up again shortly' so customers can get BIOS updates again

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

Nvidia's next hardware launch for us gamers could be an RTX 5050 with a whopping 1 GB of extra VRAM

'The reason why we're so beloved in the videogame industry and we're so deep in it still is, in a lot of ways, we created the modern videogame industry' says Nvidia CEO Huang

Third time's hopefully the charm as Nvidia releases hotfix driver to tackle voltage issues and Resident Evil Requiem performance in one fel swoop

I've tested Resident Evil Requiem with different GPUs and different drivers, but cannot replicate the massive performance loss some PC gamers are reporting

In yet another twist in the US-China chip export fiasco, it seems like America may limit the number of H200 AI chips being sent to China

Nvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures

Exceptional performance for ultra-fast gaming? GIGABYTE has a GPU for that

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PS5 Pro owners will soon get an improved PSSR AI upscaler, while PC gamers with RDNA 2 and 3 GPUs are still praying for AMD to add official support for FSR 4

Microsoft's update for Direct3D, with opacity micromaps and shader execution reordering now official features, will probably mean little to gamers but graphics devs are going to be happy

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

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

Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Industry insiders say Samsung has confirmed a DRAM price increase of 'over 100%' for its customers, so brace yourself for the next phase of the dreaded RAMpocalypse

It looks like more memory price hikes may soon be on the way, as Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly inform customers of yet another DRAM price increase

The company that stopped making memory for gamers just explained how important memory is for gamers. Yeah, really

HP warns that memory now makes up around 35% of the cost its PCs, double that of a year ago

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

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

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

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

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

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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