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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Cyber Monday We're still finding some great prices on gaming laptops of all shapes and sizes.

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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.

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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.

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Deals Black Friday itself is now over, but the laptop deals are still in full flow all weekend.

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Black Friday Black Friday is done but the Cyber Monda gaming PC deals are already in full swing.

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Deals Black Friday is officially here, and the deals are in full flow.

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Here are the top 10 gaming keyboards we've tested ourselves.

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Top tech These are the top 10 gaming laptops we've benchmarked and tested ourselves.

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Live This is just weeks after the AWS outage.

By Dave James Published
AI-free Refreshing, ain't it?

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Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.

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MS no more Valve has been loosening a desperate Microsoft's grip on PC gaming one gnarled finger at a time.

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Score: 73% I'm happy to see you, but buddy, you're out of my league.

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All the kit to help you game like a professional.

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Score: 84% Expensive, and one of the best handheld gaming PCs, but c'mon, Microsoft, this is no Xbox.

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ROGer It's seriously quiet, real fast, and the Windows handheld experience mostly works. Mostly. But that price...

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Precisely why? I can't help but feel this is more pro-gamer placebo than anything else.

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So. Many. Buttons The Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE isn't just a pretty facia of many, many buttons.

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Wires Nope, you won't convince me this is a worthwhile thing. Wires are fine.

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Score: 81% An almost ludicrously expensive chair for those with discerning tastes. And spines.

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Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best prices for all the best graphics cards you should fit into your gaming PC.

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Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.
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