James Bentley
James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead. In that time, he has covered the latest doodads, contraptions, and gismos, and loved every second of it. Hey, it’s better than writing case briefs.
Latest articles by James Bentley

With RTX 50 series cards not supporting 32-bit PhysX, some owners are taking to shoving a secondary card into their rig just to run older games better
By James Bentley published
News We've gone back in time to PhysX-dedicated GPUs again.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater system requirements are here, and it's yet another game that requires an RTX graphics card and tonnes of free storage to play
By James Bentley published
News Pour one out for those still on a GTX card.

One educational company accuses Google's AI summary of leading to a 'hollowed-out information ecosystem of little use and unworthy of trust' in latest lawsuit
By James Bentley published
News 'We believe this isn’t just about Chegg'.

Nvidia has built a free AI-led platform to help teach American Sign Language with '400,000 video clips representing 1,000 signed words' so far
By James Bentley published
News And it's all validated by ASL users.

Lenovo's leaked new foldable OLED AI laptop looks like someone has slipped with their mouse in Photoshop
By James Bentley published
News Double it and pass it on.

Graphics cards are so demanding now there are devices with tiny screens that plug into connectors and monitor temperatures
By James Bentley published
News Playing it cool.

Hyte has announced another Persona-themed gaming PC case, and as a Persona die-hard, even I think it's a bit much
By James Bentley published
News The keycaps are gorgeous though.

The best Secretlab gaming chair is getting a gorgeous new Monster Hunter Wilds crossover and it may be my favourite yet
By James Bentley published
News The Arkveld looks Svelt.

The Audeze Maxwell wireless gaming headset has hit its lowest-ever price and we can't recommend it highly enough
By James Bentley published
Deal Give your ears a treat.

Morbid curiosity made me swap from Chrome to Opera's 'gaming browser' but its early 2000s custom ringtone vibes give me the ick
By James Bentley published
Losing its Edge Browser maximalism.

Nvidia has quietly ended support for 32-bit PhysX on its new RTX 50-series, so games like Batman: Arkham City might look and run better on older GPUs
By James Bentley published
News An end of an almost lifelike era.

One lucky Walmart employee bought two Ryzen 7 7800X3D chips for $99 each and immediately cashed them out for over $700 on eBay
By James Bentley published
News I'm not jealous. You're jealous.

3DMark benchmarks show off AMD's big daddy Strix Halo laptop chip in action and I'm a little underwhelmed
By James Bentley published
News It's still pretty decent for an integrated GPU though.

A web3 free-to-play survival game found to be a front for installing malware on your PC has finally been removed from Steam
By James Bentley published
News Valve recommends considering "fully reformatting your operating system".

AMD is finally spilling the beans about the RX 9070 series during a live stream on February 28
By James Bentley published
News And there's a lot riding on it.

Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
By Dave James published
We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.

The best budget 4K monitor is now even more tempting, with this $50 saving on its usual sale price
By James Bentley published
Deal Do you really need 4K? Maybe not but all those pixels are glorious to look at.

With great self-awareness WinRAR releases official $150 merch: 'What better way to support the software you’ve NEVER paid for than by buying a WinRAR bag?'
By James Bentley published
News $150 may make up for a lifetime of not paying.

The Steam Deck 2 doesn't need to happen because Valve will win either way (though I hope it does)
By James Bentley published
Full Steam! Valve is thinking of the Big Picture (literally).

If you failed to get an RTX 5090 and still want an upgrade, all signs suggest the RTX 5070 Ti will launch on February 20
By James Bentley published
News You will be saving a good bit of money going for the cheaper model too.

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii system requirements suggest it could be your next Steam Deck must-play
By James Bentley published
News The Mad Dog is back.

Newly unveiled Nintendo Switch 2 patent confirms mouse functionality and gives more details on exactly how it will work, and I don't know if I like it
By James Bentley published
News Though I am interested in trying it.

If you installed Windows 11 with certain security updates and a USB stick, you may not get any more security updates warns Microsoft
By James Bentley published
News The fix is to reinstall Windows 11 with different security updates.
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