Latest articles by James Bentley
Nvidia is giving away 5 classic Jensen-signed GeForce cards if you tweet to build hype for its CES 2025 briefing, and its first choice is almost older than me
news Sorry for making you feel ancient.
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.
The NZXT Relay is a flawed set of speakers but it's also my favourite bit of hardware from 2024 thanks to its ingenious stand
Gear of the Year These aren't smart™ speakers but they are SMART speakers.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2024
Gear of the year With more than 20 mice reviewed this year by the PC Gamer team, only three stand head and shoulders above the rest.
Google being pushed to sell off Chrome is likely a good thing, but don't cheer on the decision just yet
Time with tell The devil is in the details.
VR gaming was one of my favourite hobbies of 2024 and it's because I've noticed myself using it as a meditation exercise
Getting active It's a surprisingly meditative practice.
YouTubers are reportedly losing their channels due to crypto scammers and one got his back, only to have it terminated once again for a 'trademark' claim
A severe emotional whiplash.
Lenovo is showing off 'the future of handheld gaming' next month and Valve being involved could signal it uses SteamOS
News It's one of the best parts of the Steam Deck.
Turtle Beach might have released one of the best lightweight wireless gaming mice of the year, but it's definitely at its lowest ever price
Deal It'll arrive in time for the holidays too.
The Nvidia App is damaging frame rates in some games, on some PCs, with Nvidia staffers recommending you nix the Game Filters overlay as a potential solution to the problem
News We've tested on different PCs and found issues on one but not the other.
After the 'change of regime', spinning off Intel Foundry is an 'open question' for the CPU manufacturer
News Intel could be in for a weird year.
Researchers have found a way to hack the memory on some virtual machines using a Raspberry Pi
news Though an attacker would need physical access to make the most of it.
Steam has just beaten its concurrent players record once again with a whopping 39.2 million at one time
News And there are a few big launches to thank.
I don't need a 4K gaming monitor right now but this great Gigabyte deal really makes me want one anyway
Deal 4k has never seemed so reasonably priced.
Meta could take a step back from designing VR headsets and lend other companies access to its Horizon OS instead
News Meta could become the software king of VR.
AMD's Adrenalin software finally has official support for Stalker 2, Flight Sim 2024, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard
The zone just got a little nicer.
Almost 80,000 Amazon-exclusive Anker speakers were just recalled due to fire safety concerns
news That hot new sound.
Some users are claiming excessive sweat is killing their Meta Quest 3 headsets, which makes me worried about the one I've literally just bought
News Maybe get a sweatband.
The Logitech G Pro 2 Lightspeed is one of the best gaming mice I've tested all year and I've found it for $20 off its MSRP
Deal And you can get it in any of the colours.
'Inspired by wind-sculpted desert rocks' and bestowed with Intel Lunar Lake, the new MSI Claw handhelds might actually be worth a look
News Lunar Lake could help a pretty contentious handheld.
I own over 20 commander decks and Cyber Monday is a great time to get into the Magic: The Gathering format with these deals
Deal These should handle your LGS with little tweaking.
The latest Meta Quest headsets aren't in the Cyber Monday sales but I'd probably pick them for two reasons anyway
Deal You will still get a bonus during Cyber Monday.
