Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn
Lone game dev builds an explorable cyberpunk city almost entirely out of ASCII characters
News Dot dot dot matrix.
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.
Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested loads of gaming chairs and these are my top picks
Take a seat These gaming chairs have earned our recommendation over hundreds of hours of testing.
Best PC speakers in 2026: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers
Volume up Treat yourself to an awesome audio experience with the best PC speakers.
GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl Wireless Controller for PC and Xbox
Score: 75% Not quite the sweetest of treats.
Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more
Keyed in The best gaming keyboards, according to our testers.
It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else
News Welcome to hell.
Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future
News Finger on the pulse.
'AI PCs will become more important': AMD's Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry
News "I remain optimistic about the PC market as an important way for us to reach a broader set of users."
AMD made over 8 times as much revenue on data centers as it did gaming last quarter
News This might suggest AI is something of a snake eating its own tail—but what else is new?
AI worms? In your Copilot PC? According to this AI researcher, it's more likely than you think
News Throw out the whole AI agent, I say.
NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix
News I struggle to think of news less deserving of that sick guitar riff.
Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty
News Quite a handful.
Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'
News What's cooler than being cool?
MacBook Neo outperforms Dell XPS 13 in Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark—though I wouldn't recommend gaming on either notebook
News Affordable AND performant.
Valve may be putting the finishing touches to the Steam Frame software stack, because Lepton and FEX are now on Steam
News How soon is now?
OEM Steam Deck LCD batteries are back in stock on iFixIt, but now cost $130 for just the part
News Disappointing, but not completely surprising.
Dbrand unveils Steam Machine customization 'backup plan' after its Companion Cube got confined to the test chamber
News That's a wrap.
Meta continues to insist AI spend is totally justified, potentially blowing over $8 billion on data centers
News Just because Meta keeps saying AI is paying off doesn't necessarily make it true.
Meta is still flinging the equivalent of a small country's annual GDP down the Reality Labs money pit each and every quarter
News Perhaps the next couple of billion will do the trick.
PSA: Don't execute PowerShell commands proffered by Steam forum randos, because it could infect your rig with a cryptominer
News No judgment, just a friendly reminder.
RAM prices be damned, SK hynix's record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors' wild AI expectations
News But is the runaway train actually slowing down?
Linux kernel patch can boost the Steam Deck's 1% low frame rate by as much as 31% in early testing
News There's life in the old handheld yet.
