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Best deals on gaming laptops
Deals Our regularly curated list of all the best gaming laptop deals you'll find today.
Framework 13 Pro laptop review
Score: 88% The best laptop Framework's ever produced, and one of the best I've ever used.
Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
DIY Pick the products from our latest recommendations.
MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC review
Score: 85% The best handheld gaming PC I've ever used, but one whose pricing is a tragedy.
60 fps is still the de facto minimum frame rate for half of PC Gamer readers, but more than 10% of you are dying on the 120 fps hill
Poll We asked what the minimum frame rate you'd accept as playable, and 60 fps still stands as a measure of smooth gaming.
Best mini PCs in 2026: The best compact computers for gaming
Teeny Peecees Searching for a new super-compact gaming machine? Look no further.
Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
Portable PC PC gaming is officially portable now, and these handheld gaming PCs are the best around.
Best gaming PCs in 2026: We've tested the best current-gen gaming PCs and these are our picks
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.
Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
Best gaming laptops 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favorites
Portable powerhouses From our own extensive testing, rigorously benchmarking 60+ machines over the past two years, these are the best gaming laptops you can buy today.
What memory crisis? 79% of PC Gamer readers are rocking 32 GB or more RAM in their gaming rigs
Poll Sadly that does also mean 21% are on 16 GB or less, with upgrades only getting more expensive.
Seasonic has removed the RTX 50-series Super GPU variants from its PSU wattage calculator. Was it just guesswork or actual info revealed too soon?
News Still, CES 2027, perhaps?
Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam machine, y'know for the three people who managed to buy one and inexplicably want a different OS
news Not many have been made, the device is hella expensive, and Windows is not made for the living room while Steam OS is. Otherwise, great news.
GTA 6 pre-orders are now live, but will you buy on console or hold out for the (obviously superior) PC version?
GTA 6 Or will you double dip... as Rockstar wants?
Valve confirms it's 'working with AMD on FSR 4 support for Steam Machine'
News It's potentially good news for owners, but will potentially become a balancing act of performance vs fidelity.
Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some audio treacle with the best gaming headsets.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor
Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...
Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything: 'Instead of punishing children, the government needs to target the source'
No quick fixes PC Gamer's writers and editors tackle the impending ban on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.
Panther Lake has another powerful iGPU in its lineup but you'll probably never see it
Computex 2026 I was frustrated at the lack of chips with the 10 Xe-core B370 iGPU in affordable laptops, and now I know why I'm even more frustrated.
The overclocking headroom in AMD's Radeon 7000-series GPUs 'was certainly not accidental... the core of Radeon has to be all about value to the end user'
Computex 2026 "We understand that both for CPUs and GPUs, overclockability is a core part of what many of our gamers and enthusiasts are looking for."
Choosing to bring back the 5800X3D was a tough conversation for AMD... 'very hard, actually, very, very hard!'
Computex 2026 I spoke with David McAfee about what it took to bring back the older chip.
