Hardware

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

By Jess Kinghorn Published 31 December 25

News

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

By Jess Kinghorn Published 3 December 25

Cyber Monday

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

By James Bentley Published 1 December 25

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

By Mollie Taylor Published 1 December 25

Cyber Monday

This $16 controller is one of the best Cyber Monday stocking fillers, and the cheapest route to no-drift Hall effect sticks

By James Bentley Published 29 November 25

Cyber Monday

TMR sticks, 1000 Hz polling and a charging stand top the spec sheet of one of Cyber Monday's best PC controller deals

By James Bentley Published 29 November 25

Cyber Monday

My beloved Razer PC controller is finally on discount this Cyber Monday and I implore you to behold its shapely frame

By Andy Edser Published 29 November 25

PSPad

How to use the PS5 DualSense controller on PC

By Wes Fenlon Last updated 26 November 25

Guide

How to use a DualShock 4 on PC: Wired or Bluetooth

By Wes Fenlon Last updated 26 November 25

CES 2026

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

By Jacob Ridley Published 6 January 26

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

By Jacob Ridley Published 25 December 25

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

By Nick Evanson Published 10 December 25

News

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

By James Bentley Published 2 December 25

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

By Jacob Ridley Published 26 November 25

News

Thermaltake's new Borg-like AIO cooler might look ridiculous with four LCD screens, but its other cool features are far more noteworthy

By Nick Evanson Published 27 October 25

News

This Redditor is playing Battlefield 6 on an AIO cooler and I can't for the life of me figure out why

By Jacob Fox Published 20 October 25

Fan-tastic

Best PC fans in 2025: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 October 25

News

Microsoft is resorting to laser etching AI-designed cooling channels directly into data center chips to tame their massive heat

By Nick Evanson Published 24 September 25

CES 2026

Razer announces Project Motoko: kind of like AI glasses but a gaming headset

By James Bentley Published 6 January 26

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming microphone of 2025

By Andy Edser Published 29 December 25

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headset of 2025

By Andy Edser Published 29 December 25

Gear of the Year

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 28 December 25

Sponsored

Elevating Your Entertainment: Exploring Dolby Atmos with HDMI® Technology

By Sponsored Published 8 December 25

Score: 85%

Beyerdynamic DT 270 Pro headphones review

By Kizito Katawonga Published 8 December 25

Cyber Week

Cyber Week gaming headset deals 2025: Giving the gift of great audio this deals season

By Dave James Last updated 5 December 25

Cyber Monday

There are simply too many tempting Cyber Monday gaming headset deals, so here are the four best that I'd buy

By James Bentley Published 1 December 25

Cyber Monday

You don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a gaming soundbar because our favorite budget pick is down to $55 in the Cyber Monday sales

By James Bentley Published 1 December 25

CES 2026

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

By James Bentley Published 6 January 26

Cyber Week

Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 5 December 25

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

By Nick Evanson Published 4 December 25

Cyber Monday

I've come along to save your ass this Cyber Monday with an immense TC500 Luxe gaming chair discount

By Kara Phillips Published 1 December 25

Cyber Monday

Despite the name, it's the exact opposite of a sex thing: The Playseat Challenge racing chair is down to $179 this Cyber Monday

By Andy Edser Published 1 December 25

Cyber Monday

So many gaming chairs aren't worth it, but these Cyber Monday deals are such great value, that I might just buy two

By Rory Norris Published 1 December 25

Cyber Monday

This classy-looking gaming chair is my daily driver in the PC Gamer office and it's looking even better with a Cyber Monday saving of $200

By James Bentley Published 29 November 25

Cyber Monday

The best thing about this gaming chair is that it doesn't look like one, and it's even cheaper for Cyber Monday than it was last week

By Jacob Ridley Published 29 November 25

Black Friday

Black Friday gaming chair deals 2025

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 29 November 25

Score: 86%

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

By Mollie Taylor Published 22 October 25

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)

By James Bentley Published 13 October 25

Top Desks

Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

By Dave James Last updated 13 October 25

Luxurious

Grovemade desk review

By Jacob Fox Published 3 September 25

Score: 85%

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

By Jacob Ridley Published 14 August 25

Score: 82%

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

By Dave James Published 11 August 25

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

By James Bentley Published 22 May 25

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

By James Bentley Published 25 March 25

ALL THE SPACE

Ikea Utespelare desk review

By Hope Corrigan Published 28 December 24

CES 2026

Set sail into the seas of streaming with Corsair's new Galleon 100 SD keyboard, with its built-in deck

By Nick Evanson Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Corsair brings Hall effect to its dinky enthusiast gaming keyboard in the form of the MAKR Pro 75

By Jacob Fox Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Cherry may be down but it isn't out with two new 'more than magnetic' TMR gaming keyboards

By Jess Kinghorn Published 5 January 26

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboard of 2025

By Jacob Fox Published 28 December 25

Score: 78%

ZSA Voyager + Navigator review

By Nick Evanson Published 16 December 25

Score: 60%

Glorious GMBK 75% review

By Reece Bithrey Published 3 December 25

Score: 85%

Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 review

By Reece Bithrey Published 3 December 25

Score: 79%

MSI Forge GK600 TKL Wireless review

By Katie Wickens Published 3 December 25

Score: 72%

Logitech G515 Rapid TKL review

By Reece Bithrey Published 3 December 25

CES 2026

MSI announces the 'most powerful gaming laptop on the planet' in the form of the 300 W RTX 5090 Raider 16 Max HX

By Jacob Fox Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

This Panther Lake-led 'semi-modular' laptop is taking a page from Framework's very upgradable book and I'm all for it

By James Bentley Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 redesign is spoiling for a rematch against the Razer Blade 16, featuring a beefy RTX 5090 and improved cooling

By Jess Kinghorn Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Dell resurrects XPS brand with slick new laptop that's smaller than a MacBook Air, lasts 40 hours and relies on Intel's Panther Lake chip for gaming grunt

By Jeremy Laird Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

The latest ROG Zephyrus gaming laptop sports two screens and a unique way to play local co-op

By Jacob Ridley Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Alienware promises it's not 'cutting corners on the things that matter the most' with its new entry-level gaming laptops

By Dave James Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Alienware is taking on Razer and Asus with its new ultra slim 'covert' gaming laptop tease

By Dave James Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

HP has smushed together the HyperX and Omen brands to create its new HyperX Omen range of gaming laptops, and I'm over here playing spot the difference

By Andy Edser Published 5 January 26

Gear of the Year

Razer's little Blade has been my ride-or-die throughout the year and is my absolute favourite gaming laptop of 2025

By Dave James Published 30 December 25

CES 2026

Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight

By Jacob Fox Published 6 January 26

Gear of the Year

2025 is the year I discovered I love charging docks, and it's all because of one surprisingly reasonably priced gaming mouse

By James Bentley Published 29 December 25

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025

By Jacob Fox Published 28 December 25

Gear of the Year

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

By Jacob Fox Published 26 December 25

Deal

The Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed wireless gaming mouse is now even cheaper than it was during the Cyber Monday sales

By Jess Kinghorn Published 19 December 25

News

L33t! Razer is bringing back the Boomslang, the original gaming mouse. Kinda...

By Jeremy Laird Published 10 December 25

Score: 87%

MSI Versa Pro Wireless & Mouse Dock Pro review

By Katie Wickens Published 3 December 25

Cyber Monday

This mouse made an RGB lover out of me, so props to the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro which is over $60 off this Cyber Monday

By Jacob Fox Published 1 December 25

Cyber Monday

I couldn't live without my MMO mouse, and this Razer option on offer for Cyber Monday is the perfect entry point if you're looking yourself

By Mollie Taylor Published 1 December 25

CES 2026

Asus launches new gaming monitors with two completely different 'RGB stripe' OLED panel technologies

By Jeremy Laird Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Nvidia looks to further eradicate motion blur with new G-Sync Pulsar improvements for '4x the effective motion clarity'

By Jacob Fox Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

HyperX gaming monitors are a thing now, and HP says this 34-inch QD-OLED model has next-gen V-Stripe tech to banish text fringing

By Andy Edser Published 5 January 26

CES 2026

MSI's brilliant new QD-OLED screen fixes one of the biggest issues with OLED gaming monitors

By Dave James Published 4 January 26

Score: 92%

MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published 4 January 26

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming monitor of 2025

By James Bentley Published 25 December 25

News

Samsung outs world's first 1,040 Hz and 6K 3D gaming monitors ahead of CES

By Jeremy Laird Published 24 December 25

News

Goodbye text fringing: LG's new RGB Stripe panel might solve one of the last remaining issues with OLED gaming monitors

By Jacob Ridley Published 23 December 25

Deals

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

By Dave James Last updated 22 December 25

CES 2026

HP's new AI PC might look like a laptop that lost a fight with an angle grinder but it's compact and discreet as you could possibly get

By Nick Evanson Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Asus goes all out with its new ROG G1000 gaming PC: The 'world's first' to have a holographic fan system built into the case

By Nick Evanson Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

'Quite frankly it was missing one thing': Alienware has fixed one of the biggest issues with its Area-51 gaming PC

By Dave James Published 6 January 26

Deal

The deal on this RTX 5070 gaming PC almost made me forget there's a memory shortage and general component pricing crisis right now

By Jacob Fox Published 5 January 26

deals

Best cheap gaming PC deals

By Jacob Fox Last updated 5 January 26

Score: 71%

Acer Predator Orion 3000 gaming PC review

By Ian Evenden Published 23 December 25

Score: 79%

Acer Predator Orion 7000 gaming PC review

By Ian Evenden Published 23 December 25

SCORE: 79%

NZXT Player Three Prime gaming PC review

By Morgan Park Published 18 December 25

Score: 83%

Corsair One i600 gaming PC review

By Dave James Published 18 December 25

CES 2026

You probably won't be able to afford it but Gigabyte's new Aorus RTX 5090 Infinity card is so damn ugly, you'll be demanding payment just to tarnish your rig with one

By Nick Evanson Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

These new dual-slot Nvidia RTX graphics cards from PNY are a throwback to a simpler time of sensibly-sized GPUs

By Jeremy Laird Published 6 January 26

News

If you're disappointed by the lack of gaming talk in Nvidia's CES keynote, fear not because the company might be, umm, bringing back the RTX 3060

By Jacob Fox Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

Nvidia's promising '4K 240 Hz path traced gaming' with DLSS 4.5 but do you want 6x Multi Frame Gen?

By Dave James Published 6 January 26

CES 2026

MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently

By Andy Edser Published 5 January 26

Next gen

Love it or hate it, but frame generation is the one major graphics technology that really needs improving in 2026

By Nick Evanson Published 30 December 25

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2025

By Dave James Published 30 December 25

Launch malfunction

Well, this year's graphics card launches were a right shitshow, eh?

By Dave James Published 28 December 25

Deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

By Nick Evanson Last updated 22 December 25

Gear of the year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2025

By James Bentley Published 26 December 25

News

Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen

By Jess Kinghorn Published 11 December 25

Score: 51%

OneXPlayer X1 Air handheld review

By Dave James Published 10 December 25

News

Ayaneo says that next up is the, err, Next II, a power-hungry handheld with a whopping 115 Wh battery

By Jess Kinghorn Published 3 December 25

Cyber Monday

It's time to forget the Steam Deck because this is the best Cyber Monday handheld gaming PC deal (and it runs SteamOS)

By Jacob Fox Published 29 November 25

Cyber Monday

The Steam Deck LCD is now going for just $320, kicking the door wide open to handheld gaming on the cheap

By Jess Kinghorn Published 29 November 25

Portable PC

Best handheld gaming PC in 2025: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 28 November 25

Black Friday

I take my game library with me when I travel and there's no reason to miss out with these Black Friday handheld gaming PC deals

By Jacob Ridley Published 28 November 25

News

The ROG Xbox Ally now has tailored per-game profiles and I never thought I'd say it but as a SteamOS user I'm quite jealous

By Jacob Fox Published 26 November 25

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

By James Bentley Published 29 November 25

Win or Bin?

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

By Andy Edser Published 1 September 25

Prime Day

I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

By James Bentley Published 7 July 25

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

By James Bentley Published 4 July 25

Light it up!

The best desk lighting in 2025: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 9 May 25

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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 1 December 24

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

By Jacob Ridley Published 27 November 24

Reactive

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

By Josh Brown Published 21 November 24

Sync'd

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

By Josh Brown Published 21 November 24

News

Add it to the pile: G.Skill issues statement on surging DRAM memory prices and the company totally blames AI

By Jess Kinghorn Published 18 December 25

News

Micron says memory shortages will persist beyond 2026 but 'more memory is essential' for the 'AI experience'

By Jacob Ridley Published 18 December 25

News

Kingston sounds the SSD pricing alarm as the company has seen a 246% increase in NAND wafer prices, with the biggest increase 'within the last 60 days'

By Jess Kinghorn Published 17 December 25

News

The RAMpocalypse has developed a whole new style of scam: one unlucky gamer opened a sealed box of new DDR5 memory from Amazon only to find two sticks of DDR2

By Jess Kinghorn Published 17 December 25

News

Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand

By Jacob Fox Published 16 December 25

News

Samsung denies reports that it is exiting the SATA SSD consumer market

By Jess Kinghorn Last updated 16 December 25

News

Framework raises its memory prices by 50%, but says 'it is highly likely that we will need to make further price updates...whether DDR5, LPDDR5X, or GDDR'

By Jess Kinghorn Published 15 December 25

News

Tech price rises: Tracking the PC memory and SSD supply crisis, now with added GPU fun

By Jeremy Laird Last updated 13 December 25

News

Framework calls out Dell and Apple for using the RAMpocalypse to 'gouge customers' on memory upgrade prices but the reality is more complicated

By Jeremy Laird Published 9 December 25

News

It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

By Nick Evanson Published 19 December 25

News

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

By James Bentley Published 19 December 25

News

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'

By Nick Evanson Published 18 December 25

Score: 80%

MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition review

By Nick Evanson Published 15 December 25

News

The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

By Jess Kinghorn Published 2 December 25

Black Friday

(Sold out) RAM prices are ridiculous but Newegg is literally giving sticks away with this AM5 motherboard—easily the best Black Friday motherboard deal

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 28 November 25

News

This online tool makes choosing a motherboard easier and coincidentally has me pulling my hair out a little less

By Jacob Fox Published 19 November 25

News

This new Mac Pro-inspired motherboard standard banishes all power cables for a single connector rated at over 2,000 W

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 November 25

Best Mobo

Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today

By Dave James Last updated 21 October 25