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Project Ava is a holographic AI assistant that promises to watch your every move to offer both gaming advice and 'wardrobe tips'
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
CES 2026 Happy New Year, indeed.
Cherry may be down but it isn't out with two new 'more than magnetic' TMR gaming keyboards
CES 2026 Friendship ended with induction switches?
Here are 2025's six highest rated hardware, enjoying tippy-top review scores—plus six dishonorable mentions
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
Gear of the Year And yes, it is purple.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: 2025's wildcards—the best of the rest is full of surprises
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
News A motion picture history lesson.
Kingston sounds the SSD pricing alarm as the company has seen a 246% increase in NAND wafer prices, with the biggest increase 'within the last 60 days'
News It also warns that AI's hunger for memory may cause yet another turn in the market.
The RAMpocalypse has developed a whole new style of scam: one unlucky gamer opened a sealed box of new DDR5 memory from Amazon only to find two sticks of DDR2
News Save those pennies.
Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'Slop,' summing up 12 months that have been especially soggy with AI-generated content in only four letters
News I'd rather hang AI-generated content out to dry.
Acer and Asus will also pass on surging memory costs to the consumer, highlighting a growing industry-wide consensus
News No one shall be spared by the memory apocalypse.
Samsung denies reports that it is exiting the SATA SSD consumer market
News A company spokesperson has described the rumours as 'false'.
Anthropic reveals that as few as '250 malicious documents' are all it takes to poison an LLM's training data, regardless of model size
News Don't sleep on this study.
Framework raises its memory prices by 50%, but says 'it is highly likely that we will need to make further price updates...whether DDR5, LPDDR5X, or GDDR'
News Unfortunately, it will only get worse before it gets better.
Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen
News Slide to the left, slide to the right… CRISS-CROSS!
Noctua fans, rejoice: You can finally colour-match your 3D printed creations to that iconic colour scheme using official 3D printing filaments
News Looking like a Lindt bunny.
