Hardware

Score: 72%

Hyperkin Competitor review

Driven

Best PC racing wheels in 2026: my favorite direct drive and budget steering wheels for sim racing

Total control

Best PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers

Guide

How to use a PS4 controller on PC: Wired and Bluetooth

Guide

How to use a PS3 controller on PC: Wired or Bluetooth

Score: 86%

Moza AB9 FFB Base + MH16 Flightstick + MTP Throttle review

Flawed potential

Steam Controller re-review: A fresh look at Valve's flawed but influential 10-year-old controller

News

Open source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator

Switch pad

How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC

News

YouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed 'The Fanhattan Project', performs pretty much the same as a standard fan

Score: 70%

Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync review

News

Der8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it's really fun

Score: 94%

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

Cool Breeze

Best CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU

Air dried

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers

News

Noctua once again delays its fan-equipped mouse and 140 mm desk fan but we're still on for the launch of its all-in-one liquid cooler soon

CES 2026

Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler

Gear of the Year

I know I'll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn't ask for more money

Score: 71%

Asus ROG Cetra Open Wireless review

Budding gamers

The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears

Score: 88%

EarFun Air Pro 4+ earbuds review

Score: 84%

Logitech G325 Lightspeed review

Score: 84%

Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review

News

New research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies

News

Artist scales retro speaker up to ridiculous proportions: 'Is this a really stupid project? Yes'

Score: 68%

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review

Untethered

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself

Take a seat

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

Score: 89%

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

Score: 82%

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

News

The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance

Take a seat

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

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Score: 80%

AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

CES 2026

'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one

Take your seats for the Secretlab Christmas sale

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Top Desks

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Score: 86%

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

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)

Luxurious

Grovemade desk review

Score: 85%

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Score: 82%

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

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

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

ALL THE SPACE

Ikea Utespelare desk review

Score: 73%

Asus ROG Strix Morph 96 Wireless review

Score 82%

Asus ROG Falchion Ace 75 HE review

Score: 70%

Corsair Vanguard Air 99 Wireless gaming keyboard review

Amicable split

Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend

News

Mode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot

Keyed in

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: the fastest, smoothest and loveliest boards I've tested

Score: 75%

Gravastar Mercury V60 Pro review

Score: 74%

Cherry Xtrfy MX 8.2 Pro TMR TKL review

As an ergonomic keyboard skeptic, I made the switch this month and it's so much easier than I expected

Deals

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

OLED vs. IPS: How to pick the right Area-51 laptop display for you

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News

New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance

News

Asus CFO Nick Wu thinks Apple's MacBook Neo is 'certainly a shock to the entire market'

News

As if PC hardware news couldn't get any gloomier, one research report suggests mainstream laptop prices could rise by as much as 40%

News

This shady Amazon listing for a 1.1 TB laptop actually uses the cloud for 1 TB and it's only included for a year

Resurrection

I'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows

News

As hardware prices make heads spin, Apple of all companies has just announced a new MacBook laptop for only $599

Score: 81%

Acer Nitro V 16 AI gaming laptop review

News

Razer's web-based gaming mouse and keyboard software is finally leaving beta, just in time for the Viper V4 Pro

News

Razer's new Viper V4 Pro could be as big of a deal for competitive gamers as the Logitech Superstrike, even without those haptic clicks

Squeakware

Gaming mouse software should stay out of your way and it's the smaller manufacturers that seem to have received that memo

Score: 89%

Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini review

Boom and bust

The one thing using a $1,337 gaming mouse has taught me is: we've come a long way from the old Razer Boomslang, baby

Score: 68%

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Wireless CF review

Unbound

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on

Pinpoint

Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

News

I think I've found my gaming mouse heaven but it's on the other side of the world in Tokyo

Score: 80%

Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG gaming monitor review

News

One of my favourite 4K OLED monitors just got updated with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel tech

Deal

If you like high-refresh 1440p gaming monitors, how about the latest 540 Hz LG OLED with a 200 Hz IPS model thrown in for free?

News

Samsung's new 1440p gaming monitor sports a ridiculous 600 Hz refresh rate but that's nothing compared to the 1040 Hz it can do in 1080p mode

News

After two years and over 6,000 hours, Monitors Unboxed's long-term OLED gaming monitor test shows increasing burn-in

News

A redditor who found their exact gaming monitor in Resident Evil Requiem finds Reddit image of their monitor inside a monitor inside a monitor in Resident Evil Requiem and now my head hurts

News

Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense

News

After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage

News

It's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'

Deals

Best cheap gaming PC deals

DIY

Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse

News

Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'

News

Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the 'sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028', along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026

News

One Redditor has 3D-printed a big yellow air duct to attach to their GPU, and the results are middling: It 'does nothing but it looks cool'

News

This creator extraordinaire has built a gaming PC attached to a Victorian cast-iron radiator that is fully integrated into the cooling system, and I am in complete awe

News

Acer and Asus' German websites are down in wake of lawsuit, but Acer says its own will 'be up again shortly' so customers can get BIOS updates again

News

All hail the Bro MegaOrb: A custom-built, water-cooled Threadripper, RTX Pro 6000 monster that costs $60,000 or roughly the same as 16 GB of DDR5-5200 at today's prices

News

'Probably the worst build of my entire life': This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned

News

Sony reveals that its new PSSR upscaling for the Playstation 5 Pro has the same 'core' as AMD's FSR Redstone but that doesn't necessarily mean older AMD PC graphics cards are set to get an FSR upgrade

News

'I don't love AI slop myself' says Nvidia chief Jensen Huang: 'I'm empathetic towards what [gamers] are thinking. That's just not what DLSS 5 is trying to do'

News

Pearl Abyss working on bringing Arc GPU support to Crimson Desert, with Intel 'ready to assist'

News

I really thought Nvidia's DLSS 5 was going to be smarter than this

News

Crimson Desert will not boot on Intel Arc graphics cards and users are being encouraged to refund the game

8 GB vs 16 GB

My real-world testing shows 8 GB GPUs are still enough for gaming in 2026, but I'm surprised at just how much faster the 16 GB versions are

News

Optiscaler updated to support FSR 4 on older AMD RX 6000 GPUs without the need for driver mods

News

Capcom and Ubisoft developers surprised by DLSS 5 announcement: "We found out at the same time as the public"

Deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

Nintendo is re-releasing the Switch 2 in the EU with a replaceable battery—and it's high time handheld gaming PCs followed suit

News

No, AMD isn't abandoning Ryzen Z1 chip series: Lenovo says it's working with AMD on handheld gaming PC updates until 2029

News

Lenovo is going long with a foldable 12-inch handheld gaming PC concept

Score: 63%

Abxylute 3D One handheld gaming PC review

Portable PC

Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

News

Surprise, surprise: The ROG Xbox Ally X just got a AU$200 price hike in Australia

News

Valve breaks its silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity and yes, it's because of the RAM and storage crisis

News

Ayaneo celebrates the Chinese New Year with the launch of a new customer service improvement plan, with US-based repair facilities currently being tested

News

All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis

Light it up!

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

Win or Bin?

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

Reactive

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Sync'd

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Scripted

Elgato Light Strip Pro review

Unit 01

Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review

Lit up

Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review

Stunner

Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review

Sponsored

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

Warped speed

Intel's new 200K Plus chips support ultra-fast DRAM out of the box but as my tests show, there's little benefit for most PC gamers in using warp-speed stuff

News

The memory crisis certainly isn't ending soon, as Micron confirm 'demand significantly in excess of our available supply for the foreseeable future'

News

Forget about PCs or LLMs, Micron says driverless cars and humanoid bots will soon be gobbling up 300 GB of RAM per device

News

You know it's bad when RAM manufacturers launch dummy kits to make it look as though you have dual-channel memory when you actually don't

News

One Australian gamer was denied a replacement for DRAM kit bought just two years prior and was only offered a refund of original price, four times less than its cost today

News

'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research

News

Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI

News

DRAM maker SK hynix has validated its next-gen LPDDR6 which would be great news for handheld PCs, except that the targeted market is AI devices

News

Phison CEO says 'both money and inventory are insufficient' as NAND prices continue to climb at an astronomical rate

News

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

Score: 88%

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

Score: 75%

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

News

Fortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS

News

Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out

News

If your Ryzen-powered PC has an AM5 ASRock motherboard and sometimes just won't boot, then rescue is at hand in the form of a new BIOS update

News

New Intel 900-series leak suggests there are three upcoming motherboard chipsets gamers should care about

News

Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'

News

A stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner