Jess Kinghorn
Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending the last seven working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not writing about all things hardware here, she’s getting cosy with a horror classic, ranting about a cult hit to a captive audience, or tinkering with some tabletop nonsense.
Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

OpenAI is working on a new AI model Sam Altman says is ‘good at creative writing’ but to me it reads like a 15-year-old's journal
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Wanna read AI’s take on teenage poetry? Eh, not especially…

Corsair K70 Pro TKL gaming keyboard review
By Jess Kinghorn published
Capital TKL A far from small tenkeyless board boasting a premium feature set.

Corsair's HS65 gaming headset is the successor to my fav budget set of cans, and for just $50 it may well convince me to upgrade
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal Music to my lobes.

The world's first 'body in a box' biological computer costs $35,000 and looks both cool as hell plus creepy as heck
By Jess Kinghorn published
News A real noodle tangler.

Seeing how much I hate its ads, YouTube tries to sell me yet another subscription tier with Premium Lite rolling out in the US
By Jess Kinghorn published
news Skip. Skip! SKIP!

Meta's Orion AR glasses still have no 'killer use case' but want devices to hang out on your face, on your wrist, and now in your pocket too
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Does Orion's 'Compute Puck' have pluck?

Google asks Trump's DOJ to please, please, please reconsider parting it from Chrome
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Heartbreak is one thing, Google's ego another.

We need a better name for AI, or we risk talking past each other until actually intelligent AGI comes home mooing
By Jess Kinghorn published
Name game A-I can't believe it's not actually intelligent.

Clicking fingers at the ready—you can snap up the best budget gaming mouse for $30
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal ...So long as you don't want any of the fun colorways.

Color-coded battery icon update for Windows 11 should've been super simple, proves to be anything but
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Not gone for good, but will instead empower a future release.

The original Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming PC is great for my itty bitty hands—and now even better for your pocket with a new itty bitty price
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal Handing it to Asus, once again.

AI Atlantis revealed off the coast of China, reportedly boasting computational power equivalent to 30,000 high-end gaming PCs
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The sci-fi retelling I'm not sure The Little Mermaid needed.

Nvidia's Verified Priority Access draw system returns to offer the chance to pay full price for RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics cards
By Jess Kinghorn published
News May the odds be ever in your favour.

Newegg Shuffle lottery system returns to give you a chance to buy in-demand RTX 50-series graphics hardware at full price
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Personally, I still prefer this to getting struck by lightning.

Valve's monthly survey reveals that almost 45% of Steam users on PC are still using Windows 10 even with the sword of Damocles hanging over them
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Proof at last it's not just you.

GameSir Cyclone 2 review
By Jess Kinghorn published
Sticking point A controller with TMR sticks, Hall effect triggers, and far too many cut corners.

A 'Musk-led consortium' of investors say they'll withdraw $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI—but only if it stays non-profit
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Will they? Won't they?

New EU regulation finally cuts massive CPU boxes down to size
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Out of the box thinking.

Meta might've done something useful, pioneering an AI model that can interpret brain activity into sentences with 80% accuracy
By Jess Kinghorn published
News What do we think? Answers on a postcard.

Give your Wikipedia rabbit hole deep dives a dollop of dopamine by reading them in an 'anti-algorithm' TikTok-style feed
By Jess Kinghorn published
News WikiTok keeps scrollin', scrollin', scrollin'.

This Steam Deck mount looks silly, but greatly reduces the risk of dropping Valve's handheld on your face while gaming in bed
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Bedtime gaming sees most significant upgrade since hot chocolate and a podcast.

Square Enix's Chocobo Steam Deck is cute, fluffy, and unfortunately gets in-KWEH-dibly warm
By Jess Kinghorn published
News What's better than winning one Chocobo Steam Deck? Raising money for charity, obviously.

Arm won't keep chasing after Qualcomm on the grounds of licensing shenanigans—but the legal jostling isn't over
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Don't start the 10-count just yet.
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