
Dave James
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

Best Cyber Monday PC gaming UK deals 2025: The yearly tech discounts will be rolling through Black Friday weekend and beyond
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday As always, we're curating them all and picking out the best deals for you.

Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2025: The best discounts on gaming laptops, no matter your budget
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday Black Friday is over, but now it's time for Cyber Monday, and we're still finding fantastic deals on gaming laptops.

Cyber Monday gaming monitor deals 2025: Cheap screens, OLED, ultrawide, or 4K, it's all here
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday Black Friday is done, but the display deals are never really over, as it's now time for Cyber Monday and Cyber Week

Cyber Monday gaming keyboard, and controller mouse deals 2025: Majestic mechanicals and righteous rodents
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday The best Cyber Monday deals on gaming mice and gaming keyboards from Razer, Corsair, Logitech, Drop and the rest.

Cyber Monday graphics card deals 2025
By Nick Evanson last updated
Cyber Monday The Cyber Monday GPU deals are flowing, right on the back of Black Friday.

Cyber Monday gaming headset deals 2025: Giving the gift of great audio this deals season
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale.

Cyber Monday SSD deals 2025: The fastest PC storage at the lowest price per GB
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday Bye bye Black Friday, it's time for Cyber Monday to take over the discount reins.

Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards
By Dave James last updated
Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.

Black Friday SSD deals 2025
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Black Friday Black Friday is over, but if you're looking for the ultimate storage upgrade, it's over to the Cyber Monday SSD deals.

Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2025
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday Black Friday is over, but now it's time for Cyber Monday, so we're still here counting up the best deals over the big day.

Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2025
By Dave James last updated
Deals Black Friday itself is now over, but the laptop deals are still in full flow all weekend.

Black Friday gaming PC deals 2025
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday Black Friday is done but the Cyber Monda gaming PC deals are already in full swing.

Black Friday PC gaming deals UK 2025
By Dave James last updated
Deals Black Friday is officially here, and the deals are in full flow.

Best gaming headsets in 2025: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
By Dave James last updated
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.

Best handheld gaming PC in 2025: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Portable PC PC gaming has officially gone portable, and these handheld gaming PCs are mighty quick.

Cheap graphics card deals this week
By Nick Evanson last updated
Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs you should build into your gaming PC.

The best gaming keyboards we've reviewed in 2025 so far
By Dave James published
Here are the top 10 gaming keyboards we've tested ourselves.

The best gaming laptops we've reviewed in 2025 so far
By Dave James published
Top tech These are the top 10 gaming laptops we've benchmarked and tested ourselves.

This is all the best PC gaming gear we recommend in one techie tier list
By Dave James published
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.

Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
By Dave James published
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
By Dave James published
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.

Cloudflare goes down, but a fix is in and ChatGPT and X are back online again
By James Bentley last updated
Live This is just weeks after the AWS outage.

Best cheap gaming laptop deals
By Dave James last updated
Deals Our regularly updated list of all the best gaming laptop deals you'll find today.
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