Hardware

News

Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games

By Jess Kinghorn Published 3 December 25

Cyber Monday

Switching to a leverless fighting game controller is the smartest thing I ever did, and one of the best in the biz is at its lowest-ever price

By Mollie Taylor Published 1 December 25

PSPad

How to use the PS5 DualSense controller on PC

By Wes Fenlon Last updated 26 November 25

Guide

How to use a DualShock 4 on PC: Wired or Bluetooth

By Wes Fenlon Last updated 26 November 25

News

The SpongeBob SquarePants Limited Edition Xbox controllers are made for goofy goobers and you can't convince me otherwise

By Andy Edser Published 19 November 25

News

This $150 controller from Honeycomb Aeronautical has not one, not two, not three, but four integrated Throttle Levers for the flight sim sickos

By Jess Kinghorn Published 19 November 25

Locked On

Best PC joysticks in 2025: These are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters

By Dave James Last updated 14 November 25

News

How grip sensing was added to the new Steam Controller is a 'typical Valve story' involving a passionate employee moving desks

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 14 November 25

on track

I can't live without the Steam Deck's trackpads anymore, and I hope the Steam Controller forces the competition to adopt them

By Shaun Prescott Published 13 November 25

News

RAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face

By Nick Evanson Published 10 December 25

News

The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group

By James Bentley Published 2 December 25

News

Thermaltake's new Borg-like AIO cooler might look ridiculous with four LCD screens, but its other cool features are far more noteworthy

By Nick Evanson Published 27 October 25

News

This Redditor is playing Battlefield 6 on an AIO cooler and I can't for the life of me figure out why

By Jacob Fox Published 20 October 25

Fan-tastic

Best PC fans in 2025: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 October 25

News

Microsoft is resorting to laser etching AI-designed cooling channels directly into data center chips to tame their massive heat

By Nick Evanson Published 24 September 25

News

Hyte says all Thicc Q80 Trio users should 'remove the cooler from their system immediately' and get a refund after internal fault found

By Jacob Fox Published 11 September 25

News

'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun

By Nick Evanson Published 2 September 25

News

Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs

By Nick Evanson Published 29 August 25

Score: 85%

Beyerdynamic DT 270 Pro headphones review

By Kizito Katawonga Published 8 December 25

Cyber Week

Cyber Week gaming headset deals 2025: Giving the gift of great audio this deals season

By Dave James Last updated 5 December 25

Black Friday

Black Friday gaming headset deals 2025

By Andy Edser Last updated 29 November 25

Quality cans

Best gaming headsets in 2025: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

By Dave James Last updated 28 November 25

Untethered

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself

By Dave James Last updated 17 November 25

Score: 85%

HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 Wireless gaming headset review

By Kizito Katawonga Published 14 November 25

Enter stage left

Creative is on an absolute tear right now with its value gaming speakers, hogging fully half our top recommendations

By James Bentley Published 11 November 25

Volume up

Best PC speakers in 2025: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers

By Andy Edser Last updated 11 November 25

News

Last Halloween's 'spooky' Discord notifications confused so many people that it added a pop-up explaining them this year

By Wes Fenlon Published 24 October 25

Cyber Week

Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 5 December 25

Black Friday

Black Friday gaming chair deals 2025

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 29 November 25

Saddle up

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming chair

By Jacob Ridley Published 19 November 25

Perfect perches

If gamer looks aren't your thing when it comes to furnishing your PC's den, then just grab a great office chair instead, like the ThunderX3 Flex Pro

By Nick Evanson Published 24 October 25

Take a seat

Best office chairs for gaming in 2025: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

By Dave James Last updated 24 October 25

Take a seat

Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 16 October 25

Precisely why?

Secretlab's new InfinitePrecision pro-gamer armrests aren't what I thought they were going to be. Nor as precise as I expected

By Dave James Published 7 October 25

Score: 81%

Humanscale Freedom Chair with Headrest review

By Dave James Published 15 September 25

Score: 83%

LiberNovo Omni gaming chair review

By Kizito Katawonga Published 11 September 25

Score: 86%

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

By Mollie Taylor Published 22 October 25

Swanky surface

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

By James Bentley Published 13 October 25

Top Desks

Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

By Dave James Last updated 13 October 25

Luxurious

Grovemade desk review

By Jacob Fox Published 3 September 25

Score: 85%

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

By Jacob Ridley Published 14 August 25

Score: 82%

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

By Dave James Published 11 August 25

News

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it

By James Bentley Published 22 May 25

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

By James Bentley Published 25 March 25

ALL THE SPACE

Ikea Utespelare desk review

By Hope Corrigan Published 28 December 24

Score: 60%

Glorious GMBK 75% review

By Reece Bithrey Published 3 December 25

Score: 85%

Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 review

By Reece Bithrey Published 3 December 25

Score: 79%

MSI Forge GK600 TKL Wireless review

By Katie Wickens Published 3 December 25

Score: 72%

Logitech G515 Rapid TKL review

By Reece Bithrey Published 3 December 25

The Cherry era of keyboards might be at an end as the company pulls the plug on German manufacturing after a $23 million loss

By Monica J. White Published 28 November 25

The best gaming keyboards we've reviewed in 2025 so far

By Dave James Published 21 November 25

Score: 83%

Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL gaming keyboard review

By Phil Iwaniuk Published 14 November 25

Score: 76%

Razer Blackwidow V4 Low-Profile Tenkeyless Hyperspeed gaming keyboard review

By Phil Iwaniuk Published 14 November 25

Keyed in

Best gaming keyboards in 2025: the fastest, smoothest and loveliest boards I've tested

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 11 November 25

Deals

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

By Dave James Last updated 9 December 25

Cyber Monday

Cyber Week gaming laptop deals 2025: The best discounts on gaming laptops, no matter your budget

By Dave James Last updated 5 December 25

Specs explained: How to configure and order the Alienware Area-51 gaming laptop to play the best games this Christmas

By Sponsored Published 4 December 25

Laptop livin'

Five things I want you to think about before you buy your first gaming laptop

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 2 December 25

Deals

Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2025

By Dave James Last updated 29 November 25

Score: 88%

Lenovo Legion 9i Gen 10 gaming laptop review

By Zak Storey Published 25 November 25

iGame

iCame, iSaw, iConquered: With its new M5 chip, the Apple MacBook Pro is now a gaming PC. Just, y'know, without the games

By Ian Evenden Published 25 November 25

Top tech

The best gaming laptops we've reviewed in 2025 so far

By Dave James Published 21 November 25

Portable powerhouses

Best gaming laptop 2025: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend

By Dave James Last updated 17 November 25

News

L33t! Razer is bringing back the Boomslang, the original gaming mouse. Kinda...

By Jeremy Laird Published 10 December 25

Score: 87%

MSI Versa Pro Wireless & Mouse Dock Pro review

By Katie Wickens Published 3 December 25

Do it your way

Super-fast gaming mice that weigh less than a feather are all well and good, but what the market really needs are more options for fit and feel, just like the Orbital Pathfinder

By Nick Evanson Published 18 November 25

Unbound

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on

By Dave James Last updated 18 November 25

Pinpoint

Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks

By Dave James Last updated 18 November 25

Score: 91%

Orbital Pathfinder Gaming Mouse Review

By Zak Storey Published 12 November 25

Score: 78%

Logitech MX Master 4 mouse review

By Andy Edser Published 7 November 25

For competitive edge

If you're still on the fence like I was, take the plunge and try a lightweight wireless gaming mouse because they're seriously fantastic

By Jacob Fox Published 31 October 25

News

The Melt Mouse isn't some Dali-esque nightmare, but rather a touchpad and haptic-equipped squeaker with serious Apple vibes

By Jess Kinghorn Published 28 October 25

News

If 4K gaming is just too easy for your RTX 5090, then try it on Asus' new 5K ROG Strix display and watch it weep

By Nick Evanson Published 10 December 25

News

Philips and AOC announce the 'world's first' 1,000 Hz dual-mode gaming monitors

By Jeremy Laird Published 9 December 25

Cyber Week

Cyber Week gaming monitor deals 2025: Cheap screens, OLED, ultrawide, or 4K, it's all here

By Dave James Last updated 5 December 25

News

21 months and 5,000 hours in, this long-term OLED monitor burn-in test finds that panel degradation slows after six months

By Jeremy Laird Published 2 December 25

Black Friday

Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2025

By Dave James Last updated 29 November 25

Score: 85%

LG UltraGear 27GX790A OLED gaming monitor review

By Jeremy Laird Published 21 November 25

Eye candy

Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself

By Dave James Published 19 November 25

News

OLED PC monitor sales are booming, up 65% on last year with Asus leading the charge

By Jeremy Laird Published 18 November 25

News

Sony's new 'PlayStation' gaming monitor is a relatively unexciting 27-inch 1440p model but it does have a DualSense charging hook

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 November 25

DIY

Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 10 December 25

deal

Best cheap gaming PC deals

By Jacob Fox Last updated 8 December 25

Cyber Week

Cyber Week gaming PC deals 2025: discounts across Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon rigs

By Jacob Fox Last updated 5 December 25

Black Friday

Black Friday gaming PC deals 2025

By Dave James Last updated 29 November 25

Key whizz

Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming keyboard

By Jacob Fox Last updated 19 November 25

New PC Guide

Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC

By Jacob Fox Published 19 November 25

News

Valve says the Steam Machine is better than what 70% of PC gamers have at home, a convenient reminder that not all gaming PCs are monster rigs

By Jacob Fox Published 18 November 25

News

I can't wait to see this custom 'GabeCube' bootup video on a big TV hooked up to a Steam Machine

By Jacob Fox Published 14 November 25

Steam Savings

How much is that Steam Machine in the window? Let's talk potential pricing for Valve's new living room gaming box

By Jacob Ridley Published 14 November 25

News

Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the 'confidential computing capabilities' of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report

By Andy Edser Published 10 December 25

News

Ever-opportunistic bitcoin miners in the US are reportedly now transforming their crypto farms into 'AI megafactories'

By Jeremy Laird Published 10 December 25

Redstone released

FSR Redstone tested: AMD's long awaited AI-powered frame gen delivers the goods but it's very late to market

By Nick Evanson Published 10 December 25

News

In a surprise change of heart, Nvidia's brought 32-bit PhysX support back to RTX 50-series graphics cards, though only for a select number of games

By Nick Evanson Published 5 December 25

Pixel pushers

Cheap graphics card deals this week

By Nick Evanson Last updated 5 December 25

Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday graphics card deals 2025

By Nick Evanson Last updated 5 December 25

News

During Nvidia's formative years, its CEO reckons it 'had a mission statement for a company that has no chance of success' but it was fine because Sega's CEO thought 'Jensen was a young man he liked'

By Nick Evanson Published 5 December 25

News

AMD graphics card prices could rise by $40 thanks to the RAM supply crisis, but the extra you pay could be even more

By Nick Evanson Published 2 December 25

News

Great news for Intel: It now owns fully 1% of the gaming GPU market

By Jeremy Laird Published 2 December 25

Score: 51%

OneXPlayer X1 Air handheld review

By Dave James Published 10 December 25

News

Ayaneo says that next up is the, err, Next II, a power-hungry handheld with a whopping 115 Wh battery

By Jess Kinghorn Published 3 December 25

Portable PC

Best handheld gaming PC in 2025: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 28 November 25

News

The ROG Xbox Ally now has tailored per-game profiles and I never thought I'd say it but as a SteamOS user I'm quite jealous

By Jacob Fox Published 26 November 25

On the move

The PC Gamer handheld gaming PC gift guide

By Joel Loynds Published 25 November 25

News

Xbox full screen experience is no longer just for handheld gaming PCs, but the feature is rolling out gradually and we're not having much luck with workarounds

By Jacob Fox Published 24 November 25

News

This speedrunner has been making a glorious multi-handheld gaming PC body harness rig for IRL game streaming on the move

By Jacob Fox Published 18 November 25

News

You might want to crack open Armoury Crate as Asus has some 'BIG' updates for the ROG Xbox Ally X and non-X, plus some smaller ones for the older ROG handhelds

By Jacob Fox Published 18 November 25

News

Frankenstein's monster actor Jacob Elordi passed the time in the SFX seat by whipping out a custom-shell Steam Deck

By Jacob Fox Published 11 November 25

Win or Bin?

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

By Andy Edser Published 1 September 25

Light it up!

The best desk lighting in 2025: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

By Jacob Ridley Last updated 9 May 25

Reactive

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

By Josh Brown Published 21 November 24

Sync'd

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

By Josh Brown Published 21 November 24

Scripted

Elgato Light Strip Pro review

By Hope Corrigan Published 11 November 24

Unit 01

Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review

By Hope Corrigan Published 29 October 24

Lit up

Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review

By Hope Corrigan Published 11 October 24

Stunner

Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review

By Hope Corrigan Published 4 October 24

Sponsored

AI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions

By Sponsored Published 18 September 24

News

Framework calls out Dell and Apple for using the RAMpocalypse to 'gouge customers' on memory upgrade prices but the reality is more complicated

By Jeremy Laird Published 9 December 25

News

This SIM-card-sized 2 TB SSD hits 3.5 GB/s and has full NVMe functionality, but it's arriving just in time for the memory apocalypse

By Jeremy Laird Published 9 December 25

News

Hot on the heels of Micron bailing out of the consumer RAM market, SK hynix is apparently committing over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs, with the first to be finished by 2027

By Nick Evanson Published 4 December 25

News

Samsung rejects the claim that it is negotiating with itself over memory contracts

By Jacob Fox Last updated 3 December 25

News

Tech price rises: Tracking the PC memory and SSD supply crisis, now with added GPU fun

By Jeremy Laird Last updated 3 December 25

News

Memory crisis and sky-high DRAM prices could run past 2028 as Samsung and SK Hynix opt to 'minimize the risk of oversupply'

By Jeremy Laird Published 2 December 25

News

Framework delists standalone memory to 'head off scalpers' and Cyberpower announces system price hikes as the memory supply crisis deepens

By Jeremy Laird Published 27 November 25

Memory blues

Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive (of course it's AI) and why PC gaming hardware prices are only going to keep rising, even probably for GPUs

By Jacob Fox Last updated 26 November 25

News

Going ham with RAM: Adata and MSI max out DIMM capacities thanks to clock drivers and SK Hynix stacks flash with DRAM for the ultimate memory chips

By Nick Evanson Published 14 November 25

News

The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

By Jess Kinghorn Published 2 December 25

News

This online tool makes choosing a motherboard easier and coincidentally has me pulling my hair out a little less

By Jacob Fox Published 19 November 25

News

This new Mac Pro-inspired motherboard standard banishes all power cables for a single connector rated at over 2,000 W

By Jeremy Laird Published 12 November 25

Best Mobo

Best gaming motherboards in 2025: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today

By Dave James Last updated 21 October 25

Score: 70%

MSI Z890 Ace motherboard review

By Nick Evanson Published 21 October 25

Score: 87%

MSI Z890 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard review

By Nick Evanson Published 21 October 25

Score: 70%

ASRock X870 Nova WiFi motherboard review

By Nick Evanson Published 13 October 25

News

PC component maker Maxsun decides the time is right for a new motherboard format, by taking a hacksaw to an mATX circuit board

By Nick Evanson Published 23 September 25

News

AI, take the wheel: Gigabyte's latest motherboards will 'intelligently dynamically' improve performance of Ryzen chips by up to 25% in games through a built-in AI model

By Jacob Ridley Published 12 September 25