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Amazon Prime Day UK PC gaming deals
Prime Day 2026 The week of Amazon's Prime Day sales event is finally here, and there are plenty of deals worth paying attention to.
Amazon Prime Day gaming PC deals
Prime Day 2026 From sub-$1,000 builds all the way to RTX 5090 behemoths, here are the best Prime Day discounts on gaming rigs.
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.
Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign
News Slides out of Unreal Fest promise "5x faster cold start (average)" and "6.5x faster systray restore to library (average)" as Epic works on making its store suck less.
The US is worried China could have a top-spec chipmaking machine despite export restrictions, but the machine maker ASML denies it
News All I know is you can't hide a 150+ ton EUV machine in MY house.
Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly
News 'DPI downshift', they call it.
We now have teardown pics of the Steam Frame controller and it looks like it could be pretty repairable
News It could follow in the Steam Controller's footsteps.
'Price increases are unavoidable' says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn't impervious to the global memory shortage
News "We’re willing to use our balance sheet to help be a part of the solution."
All roads lead to philosophy, as this Wikipedia game proves
News It's all footnotes to Plato, just as Whitehead said.
Intel's 18A-P chipmaking process has started risk production and promises 9% improved CPU performance for the same power
News Or 18% less power consumption for the same performance.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we need to 'deal with social norms' surrounding AI but apparently that means 'just go engage it'
News Oh, right, of course that's exactly what he has in mind. Use AI, got it.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC
New PC Guide I bought my first gaming PC almost two decades ago, and here are the things I've learnt since then that I think you should know.
Silicon Motion says 'the retail SSD market has almost disappeared' as NAND shifts towards AI servers and OEMs scoop up the drives that usually sit in our gaming PCs
News Yet another day during the RAMpocalypse.
One lone legend waiting for GTA 6 to launch has decided to make the game from scratch themselves: 'The goal: beat the real GTA 6 to launch'
News Vibe code GTA 6? Sure, hold my beer.
There are stirrings in the VR industry that much better displays could be in the pipeline
News Samsung is apparently leaning more heavily into Micro-OLED.
Noctua's AIO liquid cooler is here but hooo boy is it expensive
News Featuring the best fans and a custom pump cover.
It looks like more handhelds will soon be able to run SteamOS if this MSI Claw gameplay test is anything to go by
News A new beta lets the OS run on Intel handhelds.
Gears of War: E-Day system requirements are here and it might be bad news for GTX 10-series cards and, well, storage in general
News 130 GB is a whopper and a half.
After gaming on pro-level panels I can tell you now that 360 Hz is the sweet spot for gaming monitors
Refreshing And I just don't think I can go back to anything below 240 Hz.
Alienware AW2525HM 320 Hz gaming monitor review
Score: 85% An enticing option for competitive FPS gamers on a budget.
Hyte's new prototype AIO cooler looks to pack funky RGB and transparent shrouds into an affordable package
Computex 2026 This might make an interesting option for a themed budget build.
This year's Computex has highlighted just how big an impact Apple can have on the wider computing industry
Computex 2026 Now let's hope the industry follows the MacBook Neo's pricing.
