Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
Latest articles by Dave James

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Black Friday Black Friday is a-coming and the deals wheels will are already rolling in earnest.

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Black Friday With the Black Friday sales rolling around again, peripherals like controllers could have some of the best deals.

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Support Based on decades of team experience and expert knowledge we're here helping PC gamers navigate the pricing crisis.

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The guide Here are PC Gamer's hardware picks, based on years of experience and expert knowledge, all in an easily digestible but admittedly big ol' list.

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News The accidental reveal of unpatched vulnerabilities as high as 9 on the CVSS score chart is a little worrisome.

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Deals The Black Friday deals are in the post and you can get a taste of the early discounts right here.

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Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.

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Deals It's nearly time to wrestle with a turkey and, perhaps, buy a new graphics card.

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Black Friday The Black Friday sales are going to be a great time to look for the gaming keyboard of your dreams.

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Black Friday Black Friday will be here before we know it, making it the perfect time to scout out the ultimate storage upgrade.

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DIY Pick the products from our latest recommendations.

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News This is not getting better, is it?

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Score: 78% The best RTX Spark machine, but is it the best for you? Probably not…

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Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.

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News The Achievement Customizer gives you full control over your wee pop-ups.

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🎃update The performance hit you get from enabling DLSS Neural Rendering is now significantly lower, but NBA 2K27 is still not going to convince anyone.

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Bright spark The performance is there, the experience is great, but the price is utterly punitive when you compare against dedicated gaming laptops.

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News Nvidia's DLSS 5 is getting smaller in practically every way, including the performance overhead and the AI yassification.

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News "Hey, you still in there?"

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Prime Day 2026 The Big Deal Days are over, but there are still some discounts on PC hardware at Amazon and beyond.

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Prime Day 2026 Gaming keyboards are a pretty Big Deal (Days) around here.

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Prime Day 2026 The Big Deal Days are over, yet we're still seeing discounts across many of our favorite gamepads.

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October Prime Day Every penny counts...
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