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

A series of AI icons on a phone.
Grok 4.1 'instructed the user to drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backward' in latest AI psychosis study

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Some LLMs fall "short of a benchmark that’s already been met elsewhere."

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A YouTuber sits on a bike that he is pedalling in order to turn the fan on his CPU.
Hardware modder connects his gaming PC to his bike and achieves 'human powered CPU cooling'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Round round, baby, round round.

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Chris Hackmann's Time Frog Color, a Game Boy Color mod project that houses original hardware inside of a specially made smart watch.
Pocket console modder shrinks down Game Boy Color into a smart watch, complete with cursed control scheme

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Makes no sense. Compels me, though.

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Nvidia headquarters
Nvidia rolls out GPT-5.5-based Codex to 10,000 of its employees, who apparently all think it's 'mind-blowing' and 'life-changing'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Go on, let me hear what the grumpy office admin really thinks.

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Four of the Nextorage G Series EEA gaming SSDs float in a blue-to-pink gradient void.
Nextorage unveils fresh new gaming SSDs, but they only come with a one-year warranty

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Has the memory supply crisis claimed another victim?

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People watch from Canaveral National Seashore as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket is carrying 49 Starlink internet satellites for a broadband network.
Elon Musk's aerospace and AI company reportedly plans to make its own GPUs, though I doubt you'll one day be enjoying a SpaceX graphics card in your rig

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Game on—in space?

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Crimson Desert Silver Fang
Upscaling issues continue to plague Crimson Desert post-patch, but Pearl Abyss isn't throwing in the towel

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News At least some good news for anyone gaming on an Intel Arc GPU.

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Framework 13 Pro ultra-repairable and upgradeable laptop
'We’ve been getting around two days of normal work out of it': Proton GE dev GloriousEggRoll and CachyOS offer early praise for Framework 13 Pro's 'freakishly good battery life'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Extremely powerful.

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Computer code and text displayed on computer screens. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Someone has apparently snaffled up 31 WordPress plugins and wedged a backdoor in each one

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Don't blog without the proper protections in place, folks.

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intel cpu
'Overclocking should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money,' says VP of Intel's enthusiast chip business

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News The future looks bright—just not in this hardware generation.

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Mozilla Firefox logo on gradient background
'Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively': Firefox CTO raves about Claude Mythos' bug hunting capabilities after it finds 271 vulnerabilities

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News That's one heck of a fly swatter, Anthropic.

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Microsoft Windows 11
April's Windows 11 update reportedly causes blue screens and boot loops on HP and Dell PCs

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I'd find it easier to stay on top of OS updates, were it not for all the issues caused by said updates.

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A stock photo of a hacker with computers in dark room. The devices are displaying computer code on the screens.
Security researchers hacked the demo version of the European Commission's new age verification app in less than two minutes

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Still a far cry from 'actually ready'.

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Ransomware keyboard illustration
Cybersecurity expert turns cybercriminal, pleading guilty to 'conspiracy to deploy ransomware'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News The accused faces up to 20 years in prison.

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mercy overwatch
Redditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Be not afraid (except maybe of leaks).

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A battery of WD hard drives.
A Redditor tries to return a failed enterprise HDD to Toshiba, but it turns out that a replacement would take at least a year to arrive

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News 2026 is not the year for upgrades OR replacements, it seems.

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A gavel on the EU flag.
"DDoS is not a game. It's a crime!" Europol targets the youth in latest bid to take down DDoS-for-hire infrastructure

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Operation PowerOFF involves co-operation between 21 different countries.

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A Google search box with the query: how does google search work
The European Commission wants to push Google off its web search throne with a data sharing proposal

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Levelling the playing field.

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The singer Laufey performing in a moody CG forest inside of Fortnite.
Fortnite Festival now lets you hit the skins for real with new MIDI drum kit compatibility

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News We about to get down.

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The ZenMouse MD202 seen in Moher Gray and Scandinavian White, surrounded by various slabs of slate and similar rocks.
Though not a gaming mouse, the new Asus squeaker enjoys gaming-grade features and a 'ceraluminium' top coat that makes it look like a crunchy little snack

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News I'm not giving up my Razer Deathadder V3 Hyperspeed for it, though.

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The outside of TSMC Arizona, showing the desert and the mountains in the distance next to the TSMC logo
TSMC's latest bank report is exactly as you'd expect it to be: mo' wafers, mo' money

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Chips with everything.

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A modded PlayStation 1, designed to look like an original dev kit.
This YouTuber mod project brings the original PlayStation up to date with HDMI output, USB power, and wireless controller support

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Lo-fi beats to solder to.

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Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Windows and Devices Pavan Davuluri speaks about Recall during the Microsoft May 20 Briefing event at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, on May 20, 2024. Microsoft unveiled a new category of PC on Monday that features generative artificial intelligence tools built directly into Windows, the company's world leading operating system. The tech giant estimates that more than 50 million "AI PCs" will be sold over the next 12 months, given the appetite for devices powered by ChatGPT-style technology. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)
Cybersecurity experts raise the alarm over Windows Recall again: 'The vault door is titanium. The wall next to it is drywall'

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News Hacking tool supposedly creates "precisely the scenario Microsoft’s architecture is supposed to restrict."

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Moomintroll Winter's Warmth - Moomintroll wears a red scarf in a dark, snowwy forest
Our cozy games of April list is looking so chilled out that there isn't even a single farm sim on it

By Lauren Morton Last updated

Cozy calendar Don't get a spring in your step just yet because this month's cozy game launches are all so cozy you might want to stay bundled up.

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A promotional image of a MediTek SoC model
MediaTek is 'cautiously optimistic' that discrete memory pricing will look less gloomy during 2026

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News The memory supply crisis will likely get worse before it gets better, though.

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