Hardware

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

Arc Raiders' overpowered aim assist gets stronger at high frame rates, and I feel like I'm cheating when I use it

Gear of the Year

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

News

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

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

PSPad

How to use the PS5 DualSense controller on PC

Guide

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

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

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

News

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

News

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

Score: 68%

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review

Untethered

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

Quality cans

Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

News

JLab has made a ridiculously large set of headphones that function as a gigantic Bluetooth speaker, which can be 'worn around the neck or placed on a table'

Score: 86%

Logitech G522 Lightspeed gaming headset review

Score: 86%

Audeze Maxwell 2 review

News

Logitech's new $80 gaming headset has an undercover mic so you don't feel like a donut wearing it out the house

Audiophile

Sennheiser HD 550 review

Score: 79%

Sony Inzone H9 II gaming headset review

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: 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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Cyber Week

Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

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

News

Keychron's made a concrete keeb: 'Each keystroke carries industrial rhythm... elevating the experience with marble-like smoothness and auditory-visual harmony'

News

Razer launches Synapse Web for browser-based peripheral management, but it's very limited and buggy right now in beta

Score: 75%

Asus ROG Azoth 96 HE review

Click Clack

Best mechanical keyboards in 2026: The clacky boards I'd buy in a heartbeat

Freedom

Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2026: my top picks for cable-free typing delights

Quick digits

Best Hall effect keyboards in 2026: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming

Score: 87%

QPAD Flux 65 Model 5 review

Keyed in

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

CES 2026

Set sail into the seas of streaming with Corsair's new Galleon 100 SD keyboard, with its built-in deck

News

HP has a gaming laptop subscription service, where you pay monthly to borrow a rig but never get the option to own it

Deals

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

5 things you can do with the Area-51's Thunderbolt 5 port

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A call for calm

Intel's new high-end mobile chip is an impressive game-cruncher, but I don't think proper gaming laptops should worry just yet

News

Lenovo might bring AMD's monster Strix Halo iGPU and Nvidia's N1X to gaming laptops soon if this recent listing is anything to go by

News

Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU

Full charge

I ditched my laptop charger for a day of travel, work and gaming with Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip and still had 18% battery life left when I got home

Score: 80%

MSI Vector A18 HX review

The evolution of Alienware: how the Area-51 changed the game

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Squeaky clean

Behind the curtain of mouse development: from hand-carving to mechanical flinging, here's how Logitech makes and tests its gaming mice

News

Haptic click sceptics take heed, the Logitech Superstrike has already got a Guinness World Record

News

'We need to do lightweight, but fine, what else?' says Logitech chief engineer, and after getting tons of hours in with the Superstrike I agree the new tech is worth a heavier gaming mouse

HITS the spot

Underneath the Superstrike: How Logitech has kick-started the next generation of gaming mouse tech

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A mouse to meet the moment

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News

Of all the things I saw behind the curtain at Logitech HQ, it was this slab of fake wood that surprised me the most: 'It's kind of old school, it's analogue, which we like'

Score: 86%

Razer Cobra HyperSpeed gaming mouse review

News

'We knew we had a golden nugget in our hands... so we took all the shortcuts we could': Logitech's new wonder-mouse looks very similar to the Superlight 2 for good reason

Score: 95%

Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike review

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'

Expansive

Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2026: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers

Deal

It's hard to say no to this 4K 144 Hz gaming monitor deal for just $180

News

Asus' new 4K dual-mode gaming monitors include even faster 1080p modes all the way up to 480 Hz

Score: 88%

XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser projector review

How Refreshing

Best high refresh rate gaming monitor in 2026: These are the speedy panels I'd snap up

Bendy

Best curved monitors for gaming in 2026: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of

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

Deals

Best cheap gaming PC deals

DIY

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

Score: 87%

iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 review

Teeny Peecees

Best mini PCs in 2026: The compact computers I love the most

Perfect PC

Best gaming PCs in 2026: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today

News

PC shipments grew in 2025 but the market 'will be far different in 12 months given how quickly the memory situation is evolving'

News

'Um, as a favor, if you buy a new one, please sell your gaming PC to our company' says Tokyo-based computer store as it offers 'pretty high prices'

News

We all knew the RTX 5090 ran hot but not like this: Chinese gamer records the moment their GPU catches alight

News

MSI's $5,000+ Lightning Z RTX 5090 has seen real-world tests and hit a whopping 1076 W power draw in Cyberpunk 2077

Score: 72%

Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua OC Edition review

News

Best Buy creates the GPU pricing meme nobody asked for, so here's the sadly inevitable Nvidia RTX 5090 for $5090

Deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

Pixel Pushers

Best graphics cards in 2026: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards

news

'Credible and reliable contacts' claim Nvidia is releasing an RTX 5090-beating GPU around September time this year

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Nvidia reportedly won't release any new RTX graphics cards this year, and the RTX 60-series is said to be pushed back, too

News

A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that's pretty much the only way you're gonna get a cheap GPU these days

News

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

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Ayaneo's new Strix Halo handheld PC will cost up to $4,299, but it's the cheaper AI Max 385 model that has grabbed my attention anyways

Handhelds when?

Panther Lake is simply begging to be stuffed inside a benchmark-crushing gaming handheld, but the price tag is likely to be brutal

News

Nintendo president is 'carefully considering the situation' around memory prices as research firm predicts Switch 2 price hike

News

Here comes an AMD Ryzen AI 400-powered handheld PC that's super cute, OLED and has an 80 Wh battery

Steam On

The best Steam Deck games

Decked out

Best Steam Deck accessories in 2026: These are the add-ons that I'd let keep my handheld company on its travels

Portable PC

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

CES 2026

We might have a new contender for the best handheld gaming PC, because Lenovo's just announced a SteamOS version of its mega Legion Go 2

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

News

The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won't help DRAM prices until 2028, if then

News

Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I'm wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine

News

G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over 'deceptive' RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing

News

Oh great, now copper prices are 'surging' and threatening to make PC hardware even more expensive

News

AMD has added the potential effects of the RAMpocalypse into its risk statements: 'There is currently an industry-wide memory shortage as the demand for such components has outpaced supply'

My testing shows that 16 GB of system memory is still absolutely fine for today's PC games but there are some caveats to it all

News

WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis

Going slow

RAMpocalypse be damned, I've tested a range of games to see if slow DDR5 will ruin my gaming experience

News

Memory chip specialist SK Hynix reports record-breaking profits but doesn't have a word to say about almost anything apart from AI

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

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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

Best Mobo

Best gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today

Mini marvels

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2026: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested

News

Update your MyAsus software now because there's a fix for a nasty hack that could easily ruin your day