Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
Best mouse pads for gaming in 2025: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on
Slick The best mouse pads offer slick mouse movement and awesome aesthetics, no matter what surface you prefer.
Best gaming PCs in 2025: these are the rigs and brands I recommend in 2025
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best gaming PC today.
Best office chairs for gaming in 2025: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested
Take a seat Take care of your spine with the best office chairs for gaming.
Best PC joysticks in 2025: these are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.
Best CPU for gaming in 2025: these are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
Best gaming keyboards in 2025: the fastest, smoothest and loveliest boards I've tested
Keyed in The best gaming keyboards have it all: style, ergonomics, and of course, the most satisfying clickity clacks.
Sennheiser says it 'will not become a gaming brand' but its new HD 550 are a good excuse to use audiophile headphones for gaming
News The only issue is the price… of the HD 650.
Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2025: my top picks for cable-free typing delights
Freedom Cut the cord with the best wireless gaming keyboards.
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is out now and well worth a go… if your graphics card can take it
News Two levels are available to play in Half-Life RTX right now: Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt.
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.
The best gaming laptops in Australia for 2025
Portable powerhouses Don't compromise on power or portability with the best gaming laptops.
I just played Half-Life 2 RTX, a fully ray-traced overhaul of the original, and its meaty headcrabs have me hankering for more
Gordon's back It's time to dust off the ol' crowbar.
Here comes Intel's new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su
News Lip-Bu Tan has a degree in physics, a masters in nuclear engineering, and won the semiconductor industry's top award, the Robert N. Noyce award.
The best audiophile headphones for gaming in 2025: my top recommendations for the best cans money can buy
Audiophile Immerse yourself in your games with the best audiophile headphones for gaming.
Best CPU coolers in 2025: I've loaded liquid and air coolers onto today's top processors and these are my favorites
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
Best air cooler for CPUs in 2025: keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers
Air dried Quiet, reliable and affordable—why not consider a CPU air cooler in 2025?
The best desk lighting in 2025: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up
Light it up! Whether making your Twitch stream more professional or aiming for an ambient office environment, I've got the best lighting kits for your PC covered.
After a run of RTX 50-series launches with seemingly little availability and mega price tags, I'm left wondering 'is that it?'
If this is what a GeForce GPU launch is meant to look like from here on out, it's tough to get too excited about new products.
I'm as excited as the next guy for AMD's 9070-series launch but the lack of reference cards has me worried about how real its MSRP will be
MSRPlease Reference designs help ensure prices around MSRP, and we've seen from Nvidia's latest launch how bad things can get without them.
You might mock Microsoft's new emoji button in Windows 11 but as someone that's explained how to quickly access emojis and special characters too many times, I get it
News Case in point: Two of my colleagues just learned about this handy shortcut from reading the draft for this article.
