
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

TeamGroup's new portable SSD features a physical kill-switch for spies and definitely not for people who can't stop fiddling with buttons
By Jess Kinghorn published
Computex For all your Mission: Impossible fanfic needs.

Corsair introduces do-it-yourself gaming keyboard MAKR 75, and says 'hello' to a new era of web-based peripheral customization
By Jess Kinghorn published
Computex Say 'so long' to iCue.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'PC gaming is now 30 years old,' and I'm here to say 'um, actually'
By Jess Kinghorn published
Computex Huang definitely doesn't need the history lesson—but here I am with one anyway.

The Asus tool PC gamers use to update drivers, fix bugs, and improve security, turns out to have a bit of a security issue itself
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Bug hunting.

Ancient ThinkPad laptops, beloved by a certain kind of hardcore hardware fan, can be resurrected with a bespoke Meteor Lake mainboard, bringing the 2000s machine right up to date
By Jess Kinghorn published
News A bright idea.

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.
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