Latest articles by Dave James
The PC Gamer Needlessly Terrible Hardware Naming Awards 2023: Our favourite awful names for otherwise reasonable products
Awful It's award season here at PC Gamer, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point out some of the very best terrible, awful, no-good product names we've seen.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023: The winners
The winners All the winners from the best tech released and tested in the past 12 months of PC gaming.
What we want to see from PC gaming tech in 2024
Heart's desire The past 12 months haven't been the most inspiring, so join us in hoping for better from the year ahead.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best motherboard of 2023
Gear of the Year It's not the sexiest piece of PC componentry but where would you be without the unsung heroes of PC gaming?
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptops of 2023
Gear of the year It's been a landmark year for gaming laptops, whether you want the absolute top-end monster machine, or an affordable mobile gamer, 2023 has delivered.
The biggest hardware surprise of 2023 for me was how damned good Lenovo Legion laptops are now
Gear of the Year I used to be team Razer, but now I think I'm part of the Legion.
A simple Windows 11 shortcut has changed my view of PC HDR gaming: Win+Alt+B
HDAAAAAH So, I'm a HDR guy now.
It's apparently down to AMD whether Nvidia releases its RTX 50-series GPUs in 2024 or not
News Insiders suggest Nvidia has the RTX 5090 prepped for release at the end of 2024 "if we want it to."
Dough Spectrum One (Gorilla Glass) gaming monitor review
Doh Just as stunning a screen as Dough's original glossy display... and that's the issue.
Lenovo Legion 9i (Gen8) gaming laptop review
Legion Legend Intel Core i9 13980HX | RTX 4090 (175W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 2TB SSD | $3,693 | £3,950
This is your weekly reminder that you can bag an RTX 4080 gaming laptop for less than $1,600 and still get it before Christmas
Deal Free delivery will see the MSI Vector get to you before the big day.
Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
news Bringing its desktop and laptop Arc drivers together means everyone will benefit from every performance bump Intel's engineers can deliver.
Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
news To get an 'Arc Graphics' sticker, your Core Ultra laptop has to be dual-channel with 16GB of memory.
Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
news I mean, obviously it's beating the Ryzen 7 7840U in Intel benchmarks, but it means I now can't wait to get my hands on a new Core Ultra laptop to really see what it can do.
Watch out Razer, Asus' switch from plastic to an all-metal unibody gaming laptop design was hidden in plain sight all along
news We thought Asus' CES 2024 teaser trailer didn't say much, but by ditching the plastic chassis for metal it's going toe-to-toe with the Razer Blade aesthetic.
If GTA 6 isn't coming to PC until 2026 this is what a top-end gaming rig should look like when it does
Tech dreams With a PC release not likely until 2026 here's the hardware that will be cutting edge when we hit the state of Leonida.
Cyber Monday PC gaming deals 2023
We're curating the best deals on gaming PCs, laptops, graphics cards, chairs, and peripherals for you.
Cyber Monday gaming PC deals 2023
Cyber Monday is gone and the Cyber Week gaming PC deals are here to do battle!
Cyber Monday gaming headset deals 2023
Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale right now.
Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2023
Cyber Monday is passed, so I guess that makes the rest of this week Cyber Week.
Cyber Monday SSD deals 2023
Cyber Monday is all over but the SSD deals are still flying in thick and fast in Cyber Week.
