Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
HyperX Cloud III Wireless review
Cloud Beta Not the convincing wireless gaming headset I was hoping for.
Meta is creating a Quest VR headset in the style of an Xbox, which probably means it's black with a bit of green
News We don't know what it looks like yet, which means there's a chance we're all surprised.
EK admits fault for financial issues facing employees and business partners: 'We are committed to fulfilling our financial obligations and regaining your trust'
News EK's CEO and founder, Edvard König, has released a statement on the financial difficulties alleged by various reports over the previous five days.
Best PC joysticks in 2024: these are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.
Asus is creating the VR 'gaming headset of the next generation' built on Meta's Horizon OS lifted off the Quest 3
News An ROG branded virtual reality headset built on Meta's OS? This I have to see, though we don't know much about it yet.
New rules to massively strengthen EU's right to repair successfully pass through European Parliament with 584 votes for, just 3 against
News The new rules will give customers new ways to claim support for a product throughout its lifetime, and also aid independent repair shops.
Best PC racing wheels in 2024: my favorite direct drive and budget steering wheels for sim racing
Driven Speed away with the best PC racing wheel for gaming.
There are few easy ways to get across the incredible complexity required to build a modern computer chip: this photograph is one of them
News Makes you realise we'd have a tough job ever getting this technology back if it were, let's say, somehow forgotten.
Roccat is gone, replaced by Turtle Beach: 'We felt that time and resources would be best spent focusing under a single brand'
News The PC peripheral brand has been fully assimilated into parent company Turtle Beach.
Best cheap SSD deals for gaming today
deal Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
Gaming PCs with no visible cables are the boldest design change I've seen in a decade of building computers
Look ma, no cables! From motherboards and power supplies sneakily hiding cables, to graphics cards and fans that entirely get rid of them, we're seeing the end of cluttered gaming PCs.
Here's a portable PS1 built from the remnants of an actual console and it only took folding the motherboard 'like a book'
News Does this hurt the motherboard?
Playseat's latest racing seat makes it crystal clear that you like F1, in case a cockpit in your room wasn't clear enough
News I still want one, though.
Updated Star Citizen minimum system requirements look gentle but they're more guidelines than actual rules
News You still don't want to play this game with less than 32GB of RAM or without a decent CPU.
US promises Samsung $6.4B to build more chips on US soil, which only increases the chance of a Made in USA GPU at some point
News Samsung, TSMC, and Intel are all big benefactors from the CHIPS and Science Act cash the US Government is throwing around right now.
My top TikTok account of the minute: this 'guy with two microscopes' that peeps inside computer chips
News Ready for your close-up?
Best PC fans in 2024: I've put these fans through their paces to find the best and brightest
Hot Tip The best PC fans will keep your gaming PC cool and quiet.
Our favorite gaming laptop is $700 off right now: not a bad price to secure an RTX 4080
Deal The Lenovo Legion 7i is down to just over $2,000 over at B&H right now.
Nextorage X Series (NN5PRO) 2TB review
Cost per GB The fastest SSD for random reads/writes we've ever tested, but for what purpose?
Scuf Envision Pro controller review
PC first A high-end controller actually designed for PC gaming.
Best graphics cards in 2024: the GPUs I recommend for every budget
Pixel Pushers Our picks of the most powerful gaming GPUs and the ones that provide the best bang for your buck.
