Hardware

Steam Controller demand is so high that new reservations won't be fulfilled until 2027

The DualSense can still drift, but Sony may be exploring magnetic tech for shape-shifting buttons in whatever comes next

DualSense PC gamers have been vindicated at last, as haptic support is finally here—though no thanks to Sony

'Basically Lego for gamers': This new game controller has modular buttons, sticks, grips, and even vibration motors

The Steam Controller's main competition isn't from Microsoft or Sony: It's from third-party vendors

You need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock

Hear the Steam Controller sing whole songs with haptics, including the Wii Store soundtrack, Still Alive, and even attempt a Rick Roll

'Average Valve W': After some Steam Controller packages were sent to the wrong country, Valve is reportedly giving 'any standard-edition title' to affected shoppers

Leaked Xbox Elite 3 controller images show at least one oddball addition, but it'll struggle to compete in a radically changed market

Noctua's AIO liquid cooler is here but hooo boy is it expensive

Hyte's new prototype AIO cooler looks to pack funky RGB and transparent shrouds into an affordable package

Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one

Cooler Master is playing around with a 2000 W CPU and GPU cooling solution with four huge 180 mm fans

While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler

Tryx claims 'world's first holographic liquid cooler' at Computex but I doubt it was much of a contest

Noctua's pumpless liquid cooler prototype is now 'neck and neck' with a normal AIO: successfully cools Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 230 W

Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets

Noctua's iconic beige and brown PC fan now comes in a slightly less iconic all-black version for PC builders who can't stand the original colour

Amazon Prime Day gaming headset deals

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

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7X Wireless Gen 2 review

Sony Inzone H6 Air review

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

Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II review

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

Rig R5 Spear Max HD gaming headset review

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review

Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review

Secretlab's new Atlas chair is cheaper, slimmer than the Titan Evo and I've been sitting comfortably in it for the past couple days

Secretlab's CEO is getting tough on copycat chairs and doesn't feel pressure to adopt AI: 'If we were owned by outside investors, you can bet that AI will be somehow jammed down our throats'

I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming

Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'

Flexispot C7 Morpher chair review

Toyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it's $3,500

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

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

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

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

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

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

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

Melgeek Real81 review

MSI's new Strike Alloy has almost every gaming keyboard buzzword thrown at it, with TMR, 8k, and rapid trigger, and you can even use it underwater

The best quiet gaming keyboard we've tried is getting a smaller TKL version this year

We got eyes on Ducky's sleek Year of the Horse gaming keyboard, and I can say I like it more than its last horse one

Cherry attempts to change my mind about wireless gaming keyboards with world's first Ultra-Wideband button basher

Gigabyte's new gaming mouse and keyboard look great and all, but can we get a round of applause for its web software

Wooting's big knob is much more than a volume dial, set to arrive later this year for 80 HE

Keychron's carbon fiber concept is the skinniest keyboard I've ever typed on

Asus is releasing 'mystery' mini loot boxes with the most peculiar little keycaps I've ever seen

Logitech G305 X Superlight review

Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly

MSI Versa 300 Wireless 8K review

ProtoArc EM25 ergonomic mouse review

This custom fingertip mouse is one of the weirdest I've seen and now you can build one for yourself, though you'll need to sacrifice another mouse first

Logitech's new mouse comes with a little bag to carry it around in. Oh, and it's foldable too

Keychron told us its new gaming mouse switches will have haptics like the Superstrike, but I'll still have to feel them for myself to be convinced

Keychron's on-the-fly optical/Hall effect mouse switch is taking on Logitech over one of the few things people didn't like about the SuperStrike

Corsair's new 'Nightsword' gaming mouse has a dedicated Stream Deck button, and I'm deciding if I'd accidentally press it too much

Amazon Prime Day gaming monitor deals

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

Viewsonic unveils the world's first 24-inch 4K gaming monitor for super crispy visuals in a smaller form factor

After gaming on pro-level panels I can tell you now that 360 Hz is the sweet spot for gaming monitors

Alienware AW2525HM 320 Hz gaming monitor review

KTC M27T6S gaming monitor review

Koorui 34E6UC gaming monitor review

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

This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast

Steam Machine preorder emails are in the wild, and it finally feels real: Valve is actually gonna release this thing in 2026

Amazon Prime Day gaming laptop deals

Valve says Steam Machine won't have 'as long of a timeframe' as Steam Deck, and new models are 'just a matter of when it makes sense'

Valve wasn't sure it was gonna have any Steam Machines to sell at the start of 2026: 'Things looked really dire'

The one thing Valve would change about the Steam Machine? 'Make it cheaper'

Valve greenlights SteamOS installs on normal PCs with AMD GPUs, so you can go make your own Steam Machine if you don't wanna fork over $1,049

Valve confirms it's 'working with AMD on FSR 4 support for Steam Machine'

Steam Machine review

The Steam Machine is the biggest victim of the RAMpocalypse to date, and that's made me unreasonably annoyed

Amazon Prime Day graphics card deals

Cheap graphics card deals this week

True to its word, AMD brings FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000-series card owners with its latest Adrenalin drivers

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card

Valve upgrades AMD's 9070 XT GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, finally allowing the credit it deserves

Intel's first chip with Nvidia graphics is coming in early 2028 according to the latest leak and it could mark a new era for handheld PC gaming

Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2x6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector

The latest market data shows GPU shipments are holding up for now but AMD isn't making any inroads on Nvidia

Linux driver for vintage AMD GPUs gets an update with a helping hand from Copilot AI, keeping old hardware alive and kicking

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

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

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Elgato Light Strip Pro review

Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review

Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review

Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review

The RAM crisis comes for Apple: Mac and iPad prices jacked up by hundreds as company says 'We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly'

SK hynix claims it will be able to triple its memory chip output by 2034, roughly 10 years sooner than first projected

'The thing that gives me hope is there is an enormous amount of capacity being built' - AMD's head of Ryzen and Radeon is pinning hopes of an end to the memory crisis on a supply ramp into 2028

Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42

Cooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory

This Corsair RAM features 'light-emitting micro-drilling technology' and looks gorgeous but it's 2026 so of course it costs $600 for 32 GB

Team Group CEO warns that DRAM and SSD prices will still rise: 'If you need memory, we recommend purchasing it as soon as possible'

Two memory manufacturers join Samsung in the $1 trillion market cap club, global DRAM revenue is nearing $100,000,000,000, and I'm here with my head in my hands

Samsung has swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal, so the memory machine rumbles on

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

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

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'

Routers don't grab headlines like graphics cards but having a good one in your home can make a world of difference to your digital life

TP-Link Deco BE25 BE5000 review

Phanteks XT View Matrix case review

Havn is making a smaller, lighter version of the excellent HS 420, with a few convenient upgrades too

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

We got our eyes and noses on a new PC case with a magnetic essential oils diffuser to make your gaming den smell less like a gaming den

Be Quiet! unveils huge new PC case designed for 'maximum performance' with room for up to seven HDDs

Montech's new shuttered PC case is so odd, I can't decide whether I'm missing the sheer brilliance of it or if it really is totally pointless

Corsair's slightly-outrageous Warthog PC case is the thing I'd most like to take home from Computex 2026, and I'm not ashamed to say it

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

Gigabyte has shown off a microATX PC case with a 16-inch built-in LCD screen, which I assume would give you the most unique rig at the next LAN party