Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
Alienware 16 Area-51 review
Score: 80% An excellent Alienware chassis over top-tier components.
Best gaming monitors in 2025: 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 PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations
DIY From a sub-$1,000 penny-saving performer to a $4,000+ monster.
Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming
Quick digits The best Hall effect, optical or induction gaming keyboards are built for competitive gameplay, but they offer something for everybody.
MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 360 review
Score: 67% A cheaper screen than most, but not quite there in other ways.
MSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike extravagance with a gold-trimmed AMD motherboard—to go with your golden graphics card and RAM, naturally
News A golden PC is now on the cards, or at the very least spread across many expensive monthly payments.
Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks, just to see which is worth your money.
The best PC cases in 2025: These are the chassis I'd use for my next gaming build
Best Case You'll want the best PC case if you're building your perfect gaming PC.
You might not have heard of Biwin but it's made the best value PCIe 4.0 SSD we've tested in some time
Budget hero Our new budget king, for PCIe 4.0 drives.
Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2025: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Best gaming PCs in 2025: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.
Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same
News The ruling "does not give Ofcom and the secretary of state a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia’s operations."
Intel CEO set to meet with President Trump and probably discuss company's woes, domestic chip manufacturing, and that awkward moment Trump called for his resignation last week
News That was one way to force Intel to the negotiating table...
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.
It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect
Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.
Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it
Secure Boot It's a Windows thing.
I build a PC every month: these are my 5 worst PC building gripes
Gripes Week It's Gripes Week at PC Gamer, and I'm taking aim at the thing I enjoy the most in my job: PC building.
Best high refresh rate gaming monitor in 2025: These are the speedy panels I'd snap up
How Refreshing Don't dawdle with one of the best high refresh rate gaming monitors around.
Need to clone your boot drive for your next PC upgrade? I've discovered my new favorite tool
Easy clone It's Clonezilla.
