Hardware

Save up to $600 on a complete Corsair Build with next-gen GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD

The Steam Controller's main competition isn't from Microsoft or Sony: It's from third-party vendors

You need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock

Don't buy an Xbox controller when you can get one with drift-free TMR sticks, 8x the polling rate, and a charging stand for less at Amazon

Hear the Steam Controller sing whole songs with haptics, including the Wii Store soundtrack, Still Alive, and even attempt a Rick Roll

'Average Valve W': After some Steam Controller packages were sent to the wrong country, Valve is reportedly giving 'any standard-edition title' to affected shoppers

Leaked Xbox Elite 3 controller images show at least one oddball addition, but it'll struggle to compete in a radically changed market

Steam Controllers to come back in stock with reprise of Steam Deck reservation system

Customizable SCUF Reflex controllers – now $50 off

Summer's nearly here, so it's time to clean your gaming PC and banish soaring temperatures for another year

Noctua's iconic beige and brown PC fan now comes in a slightly less iconic all-black version for PC builders who can't stand the original colour

YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer

I don't necessarily need a CPU cooler with a screen, but for only $170 I can definitely see the argument for turning the inside of my PC case into a tiny Miku Hatsune shrine

Making black versions of Noctua's beige fans is 'less like painting a wooden fence... and more like changing the colour of a carbon-fibre Formula 1 part'

You can now download 3D CAD models of Noctua fans, but the company warns they 'will not perform well when printed'

Hardware modder connects his gaming PC to his bike and achieves 'human powered CPU cooling'

'I basically sprinkle water drops on top of tissue paper': One redditor's quest to cool their Mac mini

Redditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself

Rig R5 Spear Max HD gaming headset review

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review

Glorious GHS Eternal wired gaming headset review

HyperX Cloud Flight 2 gaming headset review

Cambridge Audio L/R S review

Asus ROG Kithara headset review

Asus ROG Cetra Open Wireless review

The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears

From Ultramarines to Batman and Minecraft creepers, there's a dazzling selection of designs for our best gaming chair pick on discount in Secretlab's mega sale

Flexispot C7 Morpher chair review

Secretlab has a whole heaping of collaboration deals on, making it the best way to get our favorite gaming chair and desk

Toyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it's $3,500

Exclusive: Get $250 off Razer's OG Iskur V2 gaming chair

The best gaming chair around is now a little bit better, thanks to Secretlab's not-so-secret sale

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

Framework says its Wireless Touchpad Keyboard 'is by far our most waitlisted product'

Sit down, relax, and see how a magnetic keyboard switch is made with Wooting's CEO

I've spent the past month testing Keychron's concrete keeb and it's absolutely brilliant, with one small sticking point

Logitech G512 X review

Attention keyboard nerds: This website lets you hear the sound of 36 different mechanical keebs, switches, and more as you type

Framework is building its own keyboard and will even help you make your own

Keychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch

Cherry K5 Pro TMR Compact magnetic gaming keyboard review

Here's a keycap that's also a watch, for the discerning gamer

This new gaming mouse looks to combine tech similar to Logitech's analogue clicks and Razer's frame sync but I'm a little sceptical

Replacing the Viper V4 Pro's skates gave one reviewer some Razer warranty trouble after glass pad sensor issues

Zowie EC2-DW review

Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

Best mouse pads for gaming in 2026: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on

Keychron calls this 'the next gen mouse switch' and I believe it: optical and magnetic all-in-one

Elo Shapes reveals a speedy gaming mouse from a fresh new brand that weighs even less than the competition

Some pro gamers change mouse pads every few months, and that makes me wonder how often I should change mine

There's a website to competitively guess gaming mouse shapes, and it's a better use of my time than doomscrolling

OLED gaming monitor sales are booming as shipments increase 78% in the first quarter of 2026

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

LG reveals the world's first native 1,000 Hz 1080p panel but you're gonna need a beast of a rig to make good use of it

The best value 1440p gaming monitor is only $130, but there's a challenger to its throne

AOC's new 34-inch gaming monitor gets the same sizzling 5th Gen QD-OLED panel tech as our current favorite ultrawide but it's a whole lot cheaper

New testing shows DisplayPort 2.1 is very picky about the monitor cable you're using

MSI MPG 322UR X24 gaming monitor review

Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz review

Alienware AW2726DM gaming monitor review

Best deals on gaming laptops

Best cheap gaming PC deals

It's Lenovo a-go-go as the company is responsible for nearly 1 in 4 of all PCs shipped worldwide

White hardware often comes at a premium, but this crisp and clean RTX 5070 gaming PC won't break the bank at $1,400

You can crank wild performance out of a MacBook Neo if only you use a giant industrial air blower and Peltier thermoelectric cooling

You deserve the greatest so treat yourself with this RTX 5080 Lenovo Legion, the best high-performance gaming laptop we've tested

If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you're desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams

This 'very distracting' PC has been filled with screens displaying 15,000 animated gifs in a glorious, migraine-inducing 13 hour+ loop

If this breakdown of the full cost of producing your favourite graphics card is accurate, then prices for certain GPUs are going to make 64 GB DDR5 kits look cheap

The latest 100% Chinese-made GPU may still lag behind an RTX 3060 but it could be the start of something big in graphics cards

Another quarter, another quarterly update from Nvidia that doesn't mention gaming

Cheap graphics card deals this week

Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now

Advanced Shader Delivery banishes long loads and shader stutter on first time launch, but only for certain games and there are a number of other caveats too

I really hope you weren't considering a GPU upgrade this year, as Nvidia may raise the price of the already pricey RTX 5090 by as much as $300

Nvidia's solution to the AI energy problem is mini data centers next to local power substations and, of course, selling even more GPUs

AMD bringing FSR 4.1 ML-powered upscaling to RX 7000 series in July, RX 6000 series in 2027

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

This smart lamp changed my gaming setup for the better and it's finally below $100 this Cyber Monday, just don't pick the wrong model

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

I may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal

As if I needed any more RGB lights, this Govee x Evangelion light kit we gave a 91% is still $60 off for Cyber Monday

I find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Samsung has swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal, so the memory machine rumbles on

Former Samsung boss predicts the memory crisis could be over in the second half of next year thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity

We're getting closer to a 100% ROG rig as Asus gets into the DRAM game for its 20th anniversary

While I can barely find two sticks of 16 GB to rub together, Micron unveils a 256 GB memory module destined for AI servers

We're starting to get convincing counterfeit DDR5 modules, just in case the memory crisis isn't bad enough already

'Regardless of the type of offer, available capacity is essentially zero right now': SK hynix is reportedly being swamped with 'unprecedented' offers to secure memory chips

'Our demand fulfillment rate is now at a record low' says Samsung as it makes its DRAM 90% more expensive than the previous quarter

Samsung says there are 'no supply chain issues to date' from war in the Middle East but the company is making logistical changes

'This is the first time where I'm seeing no light at the end of the tunnel': How the memory crisis is hitting PC builders

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

MSI MEG X870E Ace Max review

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The best PC upgrade I did this year was switching everything to Wi-Fi 7 and now you can too with these Cyber Monday deals

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'

Routers don't grab headlines like graphics cards but having a good one in your home can make a world of difference to your digital life

The best PC cases in 2026: These are the chassis I'd use for my next gaming build

Cooler Master MasterFrame 360 Panorama review

Corsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish

Silverstone FLP02 case review

Thermaltake View 380 WS ARGB review

Lian Li Lancool 217 case review

Corsair 3200D review

Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition case review

My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: 'We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC'