
Jess Kinghorn
Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending the last seven working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not writing about all things hardware here, she’s getting cosy with a horror classic, ranting about a cult hit to a captive audience, or tinkering with some tabletop nonsense.
Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

Superstar modders have decompiled Mario Party 4, meaning native PC ports for GameCube games may one day be a reality
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Ending friendships for a modern hardware generation.

Windows 10 version of Microsoft 365 apps will be supported until 2028—but this isn't the Microsoft u-turn you may think it is
By Jess Kinghorn published
News I mean, there are still a lot of reasons not to like Microsoft, though.

I don't care what you say, there's still no place in my life for modular hardware to slot into
By Jess Kinghorn published
Opinion As much as I love Lego, modular tech still has many more bricks to lay before I'll be convinced it's got a solid foundation.

This aluminium keyboard feels like it fell straight out of one of my abandoned sci-fi drafts—but thanks to its onboard word counter, I might just finish it now
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Shiny, shiny.

This transparent HDD from Buffalo is both beautiful and woefully impractical—just how I like my tech
By Jess Kinghorn published
News She is beauty, she is grace, she's got my finger smears all over her transparent face.

Sennheiser and the company that now makes its audiophile headphones have just been fined €6 million over price fixing
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Prick up your ears for this.

As support for Windows 10 counts down, End of 10 asks 'why not Linux?'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News What is the penguin hiding behind that enigmatic smile?

Gigabyte's thermal gel 'is crawling out' of place on some RTX 50-series cards
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Not the worst thing you can clap eyes upon in your PC case, but not ideal.

Amid tariff woes, 8BitDo stops shipping product from China-based warehouse to US customers
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Put on pause.

This colour E-ink monitor is very pretty but the price means you may be better off strapping 7 Kindle Colorsofts together
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Finally, something perfectly suited to battling my visual novel backlog.

Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper
By Jess Kinghorn published
News It wasn't just you left staring at the Welcome screen for 30 seconds.

Turns out Janet Jackson's laptop-crashing cursed bassline was the scourge of notebook makers for at least half a decade
By Jess Kinghorn published
News No struggle, no progress.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI generates 'fantastic' Python code, and that it now creates 'maybe 20 - 30% of the code ... in some of our projects'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Hey, who commented 'purple monkey dishwasher' in here?

Be Quiet! Dark Mount modular mechanical keyboard review
By Jess Kinghorn published
Overshadowed A modular keyboard desperate for the spotlight.

Be Quiet! Light Mount mechanical keyboard review
By Jess Kinghorn published
Quietly de-lightful A full-size sound-dampened board exuding far from quiet confidence.

California is running out of license number combinations, making for wheelie quite a lot of cars
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Reel 'em in with puns, then hit 'em with climate grief.

AI Overview is still 'yes, and'-ing completely made up idioms despite Google's best efforts to restrict it
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Taking the Mickey.

AMD says it will be talking all things gaming and AI at Computex in May, and that could set the stage for the more affordable RX 9060 graphics cards
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Not throwing in the towel.

Behold! A single QR code containing a miniaturized take on Doom: 'literally the entire game'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Asking the question that never gets old.

There's no two ways about it—I love the Lumon blue, retro styling of this Severance-inspired keyboard
By Jess Kinghorn published
News A trackball? In MY keyboard? I'll roll with it.

The LA Times gives mealy-mouthed AI the last word on its opinion pieces
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Is it raining? Yes—and also no.

Scientists have created a random number generator that's truly random—and no, that's not an easy thing to do at all
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Now when you curse the RNG gods, you can really mean it.

Turns out a bit of pixelation won't cover your back (or front) as it's actually very easy to de-censor videos
By Jess Kinghorn published
News 'Think twice' is still good advice.
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