Latest articles by Andy Edser
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024: The winners in every category of PC gaming greatness from the past 12 months of tech
The winners We've had our hands on all the best PC gaming hardware of 2024 and these are our absolute, solid gold favourites.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best microphone of 2024
Gear of the year Speak, priest! These audio-capturing beasties are my top three candidates for our hallowed best microphone award.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headsets of 2024
Gear of the year It's been a year of excellent gaming headset releases, so we've rounded up three candidates for the best we've tested in 2024.
The Razer Wolverine V3 Pro has replaced my Xbox Wireless Controller in 2024 and I couldn't be happier about it
Gear of the year It might be expensive but I reckon it's the controller to beat right now.
Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords
🏆 An early access medieval sim scratched our city builder itch this year.
2024 felt like the year gaming laptops finally started to grow up, so roll on 2025 and the mega-smart lappys to come
Adult gaming Slim, powerful, desirable. Here's hoping this is just the beginning.
North Korean hackers are said to have stolen $1,300,000,000 in crypto in 2024, an estimated 61% of the total funds swiped this year
News Yes, I looked up how many zeros were in a billion. I am not a clever man.
'The only way to beat China is to stay ahead of them' says US commerce secretary as she backs CHIPS investments handed out to Intel, TSMC over sanctions
News "We have to run faster, out innovate them. That’s the way to win."
AMD's next-gen RDNA 4 graphics cards are now rumoured to be called the RX 9000-series, and we might have already had a sneak peek at what they look like
News A holiday miracle.
It's been a hell of a year, and we're going to end it by pinging a spacecraft travelling at 430,000 mph off the Sun in a presumed affront to the laws of the universe
News We're going down in a blaze of glory. Or at least, this spacecraft might be.
A small doughnut shop in Indiana is still using Commodore 64s as register systems, 42 years after their initial release
News If it ain't broke, make doughnuts. Wait.
Multiple Nvidia RTX 50-series placeholders have appeared on the EEC database, although I wouldn't get too excited about a hypothetical 'RTX 5090 Ti Super' if I were you
News Still, SKU listings are revealing in and of themselves.
Windows 11 24H2 is the unwanted holiday gift that keeps on giving thanks to Auto HDR game crashes, audio device woes, odd bouts of stuttering and more
News Even our precious PC Gamer hardware team rigs have been beset by issues.
I can't think of a better last minute gift idea for a PC gamer than one of these handheld gaming PCs for under $500
Deal Okay fine, a gold-plated Lamborghini. Or a sense of overall well-being. But other than that.
'There are lots of tombstones of great tech companies that didn’t reinvent themselves,' says Arm CEO Rene Haas of Intel's recent woes
News "I think Intel's biggest dilemma is how to disassociate from being either a vertical company or a fabless company."
We're (probably) doomed: Experts think the Sun may produce gigantic, electronics-destroying superflares much more often than we previously thought
News Thanks for all the fish, etc.
The Nintendo Switch 2 looks like it might be following the handheld gaming PC trend and going large
News Not so much a growing market as growing in general.
Apple's infamous Magic Mouse is rumoured to be getting a redesign, hopefully moving that horrendous charging port
News Upside down, boy you turn me, inside out.
Meta's deepfake-fighting AI video watermarking tool is here, and for some reason it's decided to call it the Video Seal
News Arf arf.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's system requirements are here, and you'll need 155 GB of storage and some serious hardware to accommodate Cloud and his silly-large sword
News Couldn't he switch to a butter knife and save us all some hassle?
'It’s a whole new kind of blerp': YouTube's AI-enhanced reply suggestions seem to be working as well as you might expect
News Some funny, some sad, some downright nonsensical.
The Witcher 4 reveal trailer has been 'pre-rendered on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce GPU' which tells us... not much actually
News Wake me up when we have some real-time rendering, ey?
Who says the gaming laptop deals are over? I've dug up an RTX 4070 machine for $880, with a free copy of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to boot
Deal A machine to hang your hat on.
