
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

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.

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.

Sony winds down manufacturing of recordable blu-rays, leaving a void Verbatim is only too happy to fill
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Dead or Alive.

AMD sees record revenue of $25.8 billion in 2024 thanks to data center growth—gaming last seen tumbling into a ditch
By Jess Kinghorn published
News AI was spotted fleeing the scene.

Somehow, some way, Edge has over 30% market share in the US on Windows—and has taken share for over 3 years
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Is a big browser throwdown imminent?

Japanese hardware chain instantly regrets use of lottery system for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 launch
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Feeling very unlucky.

Waiting for the launch of Nvidia's RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 is getting in-tents with hopefuls already pitching up outside of Micro Center stores
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Me? I'd rather run around a field with a foam sword.

Reddit user unearths $850+ RX 7900 XTX from bargain bin, pays about 10 bucks for it, and claims 'it's working'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Talk about a wild (graphics) card.

The 'um, actually' guy you know just got infinitely more powerful with these AI glasses
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Correct, but not all right.

Overclockers UK say they have a 'single digit' number of Nvidia's RTX 5090 cards a week before launch
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Save your pennies.

Cloudflare claims to have mitigated biggest DDoS attack on record with requests flying in from 5,500 IP addresses per second
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Nothing strikes fear in my heart quite like the phrase 'hypervolumetric DDoS attack'.

Film director clarifies that historical epic The Brutalist did use AI during production, but not how you think
By Jess Kinghorn published
News Screaming from the rooftops.
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