
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

It looks like even power supplies and CPU coolers are set to rise in price, but AI isn't to blame this time
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Getting into heavy metal.

Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The best time to buy an SSD? Yesterday.

Seems like everyone forgot the 'Consumer' part of the Consumer Electronics Show this year
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

Samsung estimates record-breaking $13 billion profits and says memory apocalypse tainted prices are 'inevitable'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News 20 trillion won, nil.

Micron isn't done with consumer SSDs after all, unveiling a PCIe 5.0 QLC drive that should be both affordable *and* fast
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 QLC, not QVC.

HyperX is showing off a gaming headset prototype packed with brain wave monitoring EEG tech to better get your head in the game
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 There's no getting away from the scourge of the skill issue, though.

InWin's latest 'signature' case looks not unlike a futuristic egg but requires more than a simple crack to open
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 Egg-cellent.

Phison's E37T controller could make PCIe 5.0 SSDs faster, cooler and *get this* slightly less pricey
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 Finally, some good news.

What games did you play over the holidays?
By Robin Valentine published
HAPPY NEW YEAR One last look back at the Christmas break.

Gigabyte loudly and proudly says it's 'AI Forward' at CES 2026
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 But is less more?

Project Ava is a holographic AI assistant that promises to watch your every move to offer both gaming advice and 'wardrobe tips'
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 A-I don't know about this.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 redesign is spoiling for a rematch against the Razer Blade 16, featuring a beefy RTX 5090 and improved cooling
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 Happy New Year, indeed.
Cherry may be down but it isn't out with two new 'more than magnetic' TMR gaming keyboards
By Jess Kinghorn published
CES 2026 Friendship ended with induction switches?

Here are 2025's six highest rated hardware, enjoying tippy-top review scores—plus six dishonorable mentions
By Jess Kinghorn published
Class of '25 From the tippy-top to the flippy-flops, 2025 was a cracking year for hardware.

I enjoy touching all the hardware bits that pass through PCG's offices, but this bit of kit was all but made for my upsettingly small baby hands
By Jess Kinghorn published
Gear of the Year And yes, it is purple.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: 2025's wildcards—the best of the rest is full of surprises
By Jess Kinghorn published
Gear of the year Wildcards keep us guessing every year, shedding light on the hardware hits that don't easily fit into a neat category elsewhere.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best SSD of 2025
By Jess Kinghorn published
Gear of the year I see three SSD queens before me—but which one will take the crown home?

Taiwan plans to keep cutting-edge nodes close to home, leaving Intel with the opportunity of a lifetime
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Will Intel make the most of it?

Keystroke lag alerts Amazon security staff that recent US-based IT hire was actually in North Korea
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Giving the game away.

80% of the world's data centres have been built in places either too hot or too cold for the hardware inside
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The numbers don't lie, but they are confusing.

Game devs charged up to 50x more for fonts by Japanese typeface maker and yes, even this might be AI's fault
By Jess Kinghorn published
News AI doesn't pay.

Add it to the pile: G.Skill issues statement on surging DRAM memory prices and the company totally blames AI
By Jess Kinghorn published
News 2026 is shaping up to be a very expensive year.

Wikiflix offers up the classics for all to enjoy: 4,000 public domain movies from the last 100 years—and I want games to get the same treatment
By Jess Kinghorn published
News A motion picture history lesson.
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