Hardware

'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

Here's when the Steam Controller will be available again in Australia, and I hope you like being awake at 3am

Steam Controllers to come back in stock with reprise of Steam Deck reservation system

Valve releases the CAD files for the Steam Controller and its Puck, no doubt ushering in an era of unholy 3D printed creations

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

YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer

Amazon Prime Day gaming headset deals

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

Glorious GHS Eternal wired gaming headset review

HyperX Cloud Flight 2 gaming headset review

Cambridge Audio L/R S review

Asus ROG Kithara headset review

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

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

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

Steelcase AU EOFY sale: snag 28% off top-rated desk chairs with our exclusive site-wide coupon

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

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

MelGeek Centauri 80 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

Asus has announced a gold-plated 82 g version of its Harpe II mouse with a 65K DPI, but it's way out of my budget

This new gaming mouse looks to combine tech similar to Logitech's analogue clicks and Razer's frame sync but I'm a little sceptical

Replacing the Viper V4 Pro's skates gave one reviewer some Razer warranty trouble after glass pad sensor issues

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

Asus outs 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with new LG RGB-stripe panel, but it's a bit behind on brightness

Okay, maybe I could be convinced AI monitors aren't all bad

LG reportedly denies plans to sell TV business to Hisense, but there's probably still a display war coming that could impact the PC

Samsung ups its 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor ante with impressive new 360 Hz, RGB-stripe, HDR 600 panel

Arm's ray-traced demo of its neural technologies for mobile phone gaming proves that there's an alternate chip for handheld gaming PCs to use outside of AMD or Intel

Dog tries to shoot PC gamer, but their rig (and RAM) takes the bullet instead: 'It would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn't been there'

Framework has delayed its 'MacBook Pro for Linux users' by a month, citing problems with its display and touchpad

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

Check out this gachapon-inspired custom PC with a floating heart on top, and mini RAM sticks in its capsules

Valve really isn't budging: Steam Machine and Steam Frame are still 'shipping this summer,' it insists

MSI somehow has both the ugliest and prettiest laptop designs this Computex

Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2\00d76 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

2026 is shaping up to be one of the worst years ever for new graphics cards as Nvidia's RTX 50 Super Series refresh rumoured to be pushed out to 2027

Tech leaker claims that the RTX 50 Super refresh is still on, despite the RAMpocalypse, and it'll be joined by a 12 GB RTX 5060

AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs not out until late 2027 or even early 2028 according to new report citing graphics card makers at Computex

AMD says that no decision has been made about bringing FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3.5 GPUs, which seems to contradict AMD also saying that it has no current plans to do so because of hardware reasons

Galax shows off 'next generation' GPU concept with actual Swarovski crystals in it, and I fear it may not have got the memo on the state of the market in 2026

The overclocking headroom in AMD's Radeon 7000-series GPUs 'was certainly not accidental... the core of Radeon has to be all about value to the end user'

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

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

Former Samsung boss predicts the memory crisis could be over in the second half of next year thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity

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

Extract maximum performance from your components with these performance-focused 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

The best NBN plans for gaming in 2026

Superloop took out the best NBN provider for gaming in the 2026 Australian PC Awards—here's why

NBN price hikes are coming on July 1, but you can delay them by a year if you act fast

In my ongoing mission to save as much money on internet as possible, I just found the new cheapest NBN 500 provider for a full year

'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

If you missed out last year, Superloop is once again offering 1000 Mbps NBN for AU$79 a month

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

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

Corsair's fighter jet-inspired case comes with a switch to toggle a light above the rear IO panel