Hardware

Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits

EasySMX D05 review

EasySMX D10 controller review

This simple gaming chair bracket could have saved me years of sim racing with two wooden blocks holding my pedals in place

Hyperkin Competitor review

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

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

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

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

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

YouTuber builds PC side panel out of 15 Noctua fans and names it the 'Superdome', cuts temps by 20 °C

Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync review

You can chow down on this edible thermal paste made from gold leaf and honey, and it's not as horrible for your temps as you might expect

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

Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra ARGB Sync review

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

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

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

HyperX Cloud Flight 2 gaming headset review

Cambridge Audio L/R S review

Asus ROG Kithara headset review

Asus ROG Cetra Open Wireless review

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

EarFun Air Pro 4+ earbuds review

Logitech G325 Lightspeed review

Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review

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

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

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

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

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

As an awkward sitter, you may need a more dynamic ergonomic chair

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AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

'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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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

Ikea Utespelare desk review

Framework is building its own keyboard and will even help you make your own

Keychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch

Cherry K5 Pro TMR Compact magnetic gaming keyboard review

Here's a keycap that's also a watch, for the discerning gamer

Asus ROG Strix Morph 96 Wireless review

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more

Asus ROG Falchion Ace 75 HE review

Corsair Vanguard Air 99 Wireless gaming keyboard review

Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend

A new version of one of my all-time favourite mouse shapes just launched and it could be perfect for palm and relaxed claw grippers

Razer has just announced the world's thinnest glass mouse pad and it looks gorgeous

Pulsar actually sold its 500-gram April Fools' Day joke gaming mouse, and despite looking 'extremely sluggish', it's 'really not that bad'

Lucky Redditor gets hands on unreleased Steelseries Rival Pro Mini, revealing another UWB wireless gaming mouse will soon hit the market

The Razer Viper V4 Pro has reminded me that few things can beat great build quality in a mouse

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

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

Logitech Superstrike vs Razer Viper V4 Pro: The battle for the competitive crown

SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 review

Philips and AOC's upcoming 5th-gen OLED gaming monitors were a feast for my eyes and a dire threat to my wallet

'Are monitors anti-inflation?': AOC argues monitors are a better upgrade than graphics cards or memory right now, which seems like the kind of thing a monitor manufacturer would say

Philips is bringing its 5K dual-mode gaming monitor to the West, and it comes in a neat white shell

'I've read your reviews': AOC says its software is 'one of the most highlighted' problems and it's 'finally, finally' updating its OSD

As a dual gaming monitor connoisseur, this Acer 1080p pick would be my choice for a second panel now that it's just $90

Sony squares up to Asus and LG in the dual-mode, esports OLED gaming monitor market with a Fnatic collab

Alienware's new $350 OLED gaming monitor could become the cheapest way to score the enviable panel tech

Gigabyte GO27Q24G gaming monitor review

Gigabyte MO27Q28GR gaming monitor review

The best Steam Deck games

'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'

There's no memory crisis in space, as astronauts on the ISS are getting new laptops with 128 GB of RAM and a seriously beefy specs sheet

Framework just announced its own 'MacBook Pro for Linux users'

Framework's new dev kit means you can jam a full desktop GPU into the back of its 16-inch laptop

Laptop vs desktop: which Alienware Area-51 is right for you?

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The makers of Playdate, the console-with-a-crank, will no longer accept games created with generative AI

Best cheap gaming laptop deals

This AMD-powered, Linux-running mini PC looks like a Steam Machine disguised as a vinyl record player, without the fancy controller

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

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

Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now

Cheap graphics card deals this week

Former head of FSR development at AMD posts 'big trouble' meme when asked why the company won't release the INT8 version of FSR 4 for older GPUs

Some gamers are going full conspiracy theory over Pragmata's path tracing vs ray tracing debate, so I've donned my tin foil hat and taken a look

Data, not guessing: Looking at Nvidia's past GPUs to predict the specs for its future RTX 60-series graphics cards

Pragmata is yet another launch day fail for Intel's GPUs, but its quick response to game issues shows it's still working hard for gamers

AMD docs hint that multi frame gen might finally be coming to Radeon GPUs

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

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

'Many employees are leaving for SK hynix': 40,000 Samsung workers are marching outside its factories to protest pay levels

Making your own DRAM cells in a garden shed isn't the most practical solution to the RAMpocalypse, but it's still awesome to watch

'We have no choice but to impose a severe punishment': Ex Samsung researcher sentenced to 7 years in prison for leaking DRAM tech to a Chinese competitor

MediaTek is 'cautiously optimistic' that discrete memory pricing will look less gloomy during 2026

Normal memory chips couldn't withstand the hellscape of Venus so scientists have crafted something that can

RAM spot prices are down by 5%, though they did spike by well over 2000% this past year

During a memory crisis do you really need fast memory for PC gaming? No, no you do not

Look, 16 GB of RAM is absolutely fine for PC gaming in 2026. Though there are some caveats to that...

Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022

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

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

MSI MAG B850 Gaming Plus Max WiFi review

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

'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

Corsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish

Silverstone FLP02 case review

Thermaltake View 380 WS ARGB review

Lian Li Lancool 217 case review

Corsair 3200D review

Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition case review

My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: 'We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC'

This Redditor has built a stained glass-style panel for their gaming PC with a 'magnificent and luxurious animal' on it and it is indeed magnificent and luxurious

Phanteks XT V3 case review