Jess Kinghorn

Jess Kinghorn

Hardware Writer

Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending a significant chunk of that time working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not investigating all things hardware here, she's either constructing a passionate defence of a 7/10 game, daydreaming about her debut novel, or feeling wistful about the last time she chased some nerds around a field with an oversized foam sword. 

Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel discusses AR Glasses Specs with CNBC.
Snap unveils AR glasses which CEO describes as 'highly wearable' in clip that visibly shows the chunky frames crushing his ears

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News I'm told this is definitely not a joke that got out of hand.

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Windows 11 operating system logo is displayed on a laptop screen for illustration photo. Gliwice, Poland on January 23, 2022.
Windows 11 Search will soon see through your typos and actually find what you're looking for

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News Dotting the 'i's, crossing the 't's.

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A late afternoon view shows two young women walking past a wall-sized anime mural along Chuo-dori (Central Avenue) in the Akihabara district (known as Electric Town for its maze of electronics stores, but currently considered an almost sacred destination by members of Japan's otaku culture, drawn to Akihabara's video game centers, maid cafes, anime shops, and manga comics), located in Chiyoda Ward in central Tokyo, Japan.
Warning all weebs: Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware via anime girl wallpapers on Steam Workshop's Wallpaper Engine

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News Is nothing sacred?

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A DualSense controller is seen on a colourful background, with stripes of pink, purple, and blue.
The DualSense can still drift, but Sony may be exploring magnetic tech for shape-shifting buttons in whatever comes next

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News Worth a poke.

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Half-Life 2: RTX Remix
'Half-Life 2 RTX has shrunk from 80 GB to 50 GB': RTX Remix 1.5 update shrinks file sizes, and also starts letting in AI agents

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I suppose that's one way to bring an old game up to date…

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The Commodore Callback 8020 smart-ish flip phone is seen from various angles.
A new flip phone that blocks social media at a system level is coming out, and you'll never guess which retro gaming company is making it

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News It's billed as 'less scroll, and more soul.'

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The Sony PS5 Dualsense gamepad controller top down view.
DualSense PC gamers have been vindicated at last, as haptic support is finally here—though no thanks to Sony

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Power in your hands.

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A screen shot from scan artist Christoph Schindelar's Skate-Demo, a project that uses a Gaussian splat of a real world skate park.
A little known rendering technique that can create low-cost, photo-real graphics may be about to have its big moment in game development

By Jess Kinghorn Published

A closer look Sheer art attack.

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A closer look
The Phanteks EX 5 PLUS is seen at Computex 2026.
Phanteks shows off PC case that bucks the fish tank trend in favour of greater thermal efficiency and giving your GPU its own little room

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I don't need a new case, I don't need a new case, I don't need a new case…

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Rear biker riding a motocross bike, kicking up mud and dust at the camera as they turn - stock photo
Browser-based dirt bike game is 'Motocross meets Wall Street,' letting you ride Nvidia and Intel's stock charts

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Getting revved up.

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A virtual representation of a motion capture rig tracking the movements of a 3D, anime-style avatar.
This DIY motion capture rig features 16 cameras made from scratch and is doing nothing to assuage my Vtubing delusions of grandeur

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News DI-why not?

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Mark Zuckerberg wearing Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
Reports suggest Meta was working on another facial recognition feature that was quietly pushed out to millions of users before being just as quietly deleted

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Smart glasses continue to be a scourge.

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Rory Read, CEO of AMD pauses during an interview in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, June 6, 2012.
Redditor finds AMD museum piece that once belonged to ex-CEO Rory Read, stashed away in a basement

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Signed and sealed.

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A split screen image of Google's offices in Toronto, Canada, and a close up phone photo of Search's AI Overview.
Google claims most users know 'information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted,' but a court ruled it's still liable for false claims made in AI Overview

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News I doubt this will be the last time an AI getting it wrong results in legal repercussions.

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Two of the bright red HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC float in a blue-pink gradient void.
This snazzy red laptop from HP and Ferrari has a “carbon fiber and glass construction”, costs $5,599, and doesn't have a dedicated GPU

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News It wouldn't be a Ferrari collab if it had a decent engine in it.

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OddFauna
The cozy game launches of June are a really crafty bunch

By Lauren Morton Last updated

Cozy calendar Crafting and cooking are all over the menu this month from survival crafting to flower arranging to stamp collection journaling.

Cozy calendar
Nvidia RTX Spark SoC in hand
I expected Nvidia's keynote to leave out gaming entirely, but the RTX Spark's purported 5070-like performance is a pleasant surprise

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Computex 2026 Simple things please simple minds.

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A tiny 3D printed Alex Honnold free solos up the side of a much bigger 3D printed recreation of the Taipei 101 building. The whole structure is built onto a Hyte Y70 Touch PC case.
This skyscraper-shaped custom PC at Computex has a food stall out the front selling 'Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice' and a rock climber free soloing up the side

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Computex 2026 You've gotta hand it to them.

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An RGB samurai sword on a pedestal that is actually a PC. The words 'Shugo' can be seen on the wall behind the exhibition piece from Corsair.
We stood in awe in front of Corsair's RGB samurai sword PC at Computex, and we've got the pictures to prove it

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Computex 2026 Looking sharp!

Computex 2026
Someone has tried to jam a full size Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 into the back of a MSI gaming monitor. It was not to be.
This gaming monitor has a feature that I've never seen before in a display: a slot that you can jam a full graphics card into

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Computex 2026 Would you ever game on an all-in-one machine?

Computex 2026
The Thermaltake Capo X PC case as seen on the showfloor at Computex 2026.
What's better than one high tier gaming rig? A double-decker gaming rig, according to Thermaltake

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Computex 2026 Yo dawg.

Computex 2026
The Cherry XTRFY K63W Pro Compact 70% Ultra-Wideband wireless gaming keyboard floats in a gradient void.
Cherry attempts to change my mind about wireless gaming keyboards with world's first Ultra-Wideband button basher

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Computex 2026 A clacking good time?

Computex 2026
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks at the Nvidia GTC event on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026.
'People talk about AI reducing jobs, complete nonsense': Nvidia's Jensen Huang criticises economic doomerism on GTC stage

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Computex 2026 I'm not sure I agree, guv.

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Computex 2026
Four of darkFlash's latest co-branded Sanrio PC case collaboration. From left to right, the PC case designs feature PomPomPurin, Kuromi, Hello Kitty, and Cinnamoroll.
DarkFlash unveils another Sanrio PC case collaboration, but I dread to think what a pretty penny it will cost to build a full Cinnamoroll gaming rig

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Computex 2026 Cute as a button.

Computex 2026
A stylised, promotional render created by Intel to demonstrate the multiple tiles and complex construction of its Panther Lake processors
Intel targets India for a new $3.3 billion factory that will make the base substrates for its next generation of chips

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Computex 2026 Glass more than half full.

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