
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

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

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

Cyber Week gaming monitor deals 2025: Cheap screens, OLED, ultrawide, or 4K, it's all here
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Week The display deals are never really over, as it's now time for Cyber Week.

Cyber Week gaming laptop deals 2025: The best discounts on gaming laptops, no matter your budget
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday We're still finding some great prices on gaming laptops of all shapes and sizes.

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.

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.

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 wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James last updated
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

We should all just take a moment to appreciate Valve announcing new Steam hardware in 2025 and NOT ONCE MENTIONING AI
By Dave James published
AI-free Refreshing, ain't it?

Best PC joysticks in 2026: These are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
By Dave James last updated
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.

Valve just quietly redefined what PC gaming can be all while an increasingly delusional Microsoft desperately tries to tell everyone their PC is an Xbox now
By Dave James published
MS no more Valve has been loosening a desperate Microsoft's grip on PC gaming one gnarled finger at a time.

Framework 16 (RTX 5070 upgrade) gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Score: 73% I'm happy to see you, but buddy, you're out of my league.

The best PC cases in 2026: These are the chassis I'd use for my next gaming build
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Best case You'll want the best PC case if you're building your perfect gaming PC.

Best PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
By Dave James last updated
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.

The kit filter: We've tracked down the gear pro-gamers use to git gud
By Dave James published
All the kit to help you game like a professional.

Asus ROG Xbox Ally X handheld gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Score: 84% Expensive, and one of the best handheld gaming PCs, but c'mon, Microsoft, this is no Xbox.

Now it's in my hands the new Xbox Ally X is a far better handheld than I expected, but it's still got a lot of work to do to convince me it's a) worth $1,000 or b) that it's an Xbox
By Dave James published
ROGer It's seriously quiet, real fast, and the Windows handheld experience mostly works. Mostly. But that price...
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