Hardware

Open source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator

How to use Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 Pro controllers on PC

Arc Raiders' overpowered aim assist gets stronger at high frame rates, and I feel like I'm cheating when I use it

I enjoy touching all the hardware bits that pass through PCG's offices, but this bit of kit was all but made for my upsettingly small baby hands

Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games

Switching to a leverless fighting game controller is the smartest thing I ever did, and one of the best in the biz is at its lowest-ever price

How to use the PS5 DualSense controller on PC

How to use a DualShock 4 on PC: Wired or Bluetooth

The SpongeBob SquarePants Limited Edition Xbox controllers are made for goofy goobers and you can't convince me otherwise

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE review

Best CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers

Noctua once again delays its fan-equipped mouse and 140 mm desk fan but we're still on for the launch of its all-in-one liquid cooler soon

Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler

I know I'll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn't ask for more money

RAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face

The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group

Thermaltake's new Borg-like AIO cooler might look ridiculous with four LCD screens, but its other cool features are far more noteworthy

Sennheiser HD 550 review

Sony Inzone H9 II gaming headset review

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

Best PC speakers in 2026: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers

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

Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

Asus has tweaked the twangers out of Hifiman's planar magnetic drivers in its new audiophile-grade gaming headset, and it shows

HyperX is showing off a gaming headset prototype packed with brain wave monitoring EEG tech to better get your head in the game

These $200 audiophile earbuds mix planar and dynamic drivers and they look like they might actually be decent for gaming

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

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

As an awkward sitter, you may need a more dynamic ergonomic chair

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AndaSeat Kaiser 3E XL gaming chair review

'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one

Take your seats for the Secretlab Christmas sale

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Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals

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

Ikea Utespelare desk review

Razer launches Synapse Web for browser-based peripheral management, but it's very limited and buggy right now in beta

Asus ROG Azoth 96 HE review

Best mechanical keyboards in 2026: The clacky boards I'd buy in a heartbeat

Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2026: my top picks for cable-free typing delights

Best Hall effect keyboards in 2026: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming

QPAD Flux 65 Model 5 review

Best gaming keyboards in 2026: the fastest, smoothest and loveliest boards I've tested

Set sail into the seas of streaming with Corsair's new Galleon 100 SD keyboard, with its built-in deck

Corsair brings Hall effect to its dinky enthusiast gaming keyboard in the form of the MAKR Pro 75

5 things you can do with the Area-51's Thunderbolt 5 port

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Best cheap gaming laptop deals

Intel's new high-end mobile chip is an impressive game-cruncher, but I don't think proper gaming laptops should worry just yet

Lenovo might bring AMD's monster Strix Halo iGPU and Nvidia's N1X to gaming laptops soon if this recent listing is anything to go by

Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU

I ditched my laptop charger for a day of travel, work and gaming with Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip and still had 18% battery life left when I got home

MSI Vector A18 HX review

The evolution of Alienware: how the Area-51 changed the game

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Nvidia's long-awaited N1X Arm chip for the PC will be released within months according to a new report

Logitech has raised the price of its already-too-expensive G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad

Pulsar X2 CrazyLight Medium review

Be Quiet! enters the gaming mouse market with a pair of kinda plain-looking competitive rodents

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

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

Corsair's latest mouse pad is just begging to have my greasy fingers all over it

Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight

2025 is the year I discovered I love charging docks, and it's all because of one surprisingly reasonably priced gaming mouse

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025

Best ultrawide monitor for gaming in 2026: the immersive panels I recommend for PC gamers

It's hard to say no to this 4K 144 Hz gaming monitor deal for just $180

Asus' new 4K dual-mode gaming monitors include even faster 1080p modes all the way up to 480 Hz

XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser projector review

Best high refresh rate gaming monitor in 2026: These are the speedy panels I'd snap up

Best curved monitors for gaming in 2026: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of

Best 4K gaming monitors in 2026: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend

Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself

Best OLED gaming monitors in 2026: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays

Best cheap gaming PC deals

Best mini PCs in 2026: The compact computers I love the most

Best gaming PCs in 2026: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today

Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations

PC shipments grew in 2025 but the market 'will be far different in 12 months given how quickly the memory situation is evolving'

'Um, as a favor, if you buy a new one, please sell your gaming PC to our company' says Tokyo-based computer store as it offers 'pretty high prices'

HP's new AI PC might look like a laptop that lost a fight with an angle grinder but it's compact and discreet as you could possibly get

Asus goes all out with its new ROG G1000 gaming PC: The 'world's first' to have a holographic fan system built into the case

'Quite frankly it was missing one thing': Alienware has fixed one of the biggest issues with its Area-51 gaming PC

Cheap graphics card deals this week

Nvidia might be doing what was once unthinkable: asking Intel to make some of its future AI chips

Zotac claims the 'very survival of graphics card manufacturers' is at risk thanks to the state of the market right now

Fast, feisty, fabulous: I've benchmarked Intel's new Panther Lake processor and it's dragging gaming laptop performance out of integrated graphics

Nvidia reportedly cancels partner incentive scheme to sell cards at MSRP, says YouTuber Der8auer, signalling hard times ahead for GPU prices

Redditor ordered an RTX 5080 from Amazon Prime and claims a near-identical RTX 5060 Ti with the stickers swapped was sent out

If you've been saving up to buy a new 16 GB graphics card, then I have bad news for you: It's already a bloodbath out there and it's getting worse every week

Behold the future of PC gaming: Upscaled 77p potatovision—and it's not quite as awful as you imagine

Jensen Huang talks AI's insatiable appetite for GPUs at the World Economic Forum: 'spot price of GPU rentals is going up, not just the latest generation, but two generation old GPUs'

Panther Lake is simply begging to be stuffed inside a benchmark-crushing gaming handheld, but the price tag is likely to be brutal

Nintendo president is 'carefully considering the situation' around memory prices as research firm predicts Switch 2 price hike

Here comes an AMD Ryzen AI 400-powered handheld PC that's super cute, OLED and has an 80 Wh battery

The best Steam Deck games

Best Steam Deck accessories in 2026: These are the add-ons that I'd let keep my handheld company on its travels

Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

We might have a new contender for the best handheld gaming PC, because Lenovo's just announced a SteamOS version of its mega Legion Go 2

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2025

Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen

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

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

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Elgato Light Strip Pro review

Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review

Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review

Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review

AI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions

RAMpocalypse be damned, I've tested a range of games to see if slow DDR5 will ruin my gaming experience

Memory chip specialist SK Hynix reports record-breaking profits but doesn't have a word to say about almost anything apart from AI

New report claims Samsung, SK Hynix and Sandisk are all planning to double the price of NAND memory chips this year

ReRAM has reentered the chat, with high-profile manufacturing deal positioning it as the 'successor to flash memory'

Because of AI 'memory's become sexy again'. That's what Micron told us as the alarm bells for the RAMpocalypse began ringing in 2024, but we just didn't listen

Spraying kerosene over the DRAM inferno, US commerce secretary suggests memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased US production

Micron signs a deal to acquire a chip foundry in Taiwan for $1.8 billion, though it won't make a dent in the memory supply crisis until 2027 at the earliest

Best RAM for gaming in 2026: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you

To meet 'tremendous and humongous demand' from AI customers, SK Hynix accelerates 2027 fab plans by three months, with an even fresher fab beginning wafer production next month

Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'

A stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner

Best gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today

Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2026: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested

Update your MyAsus software now because there's a fix for a nasty hack that could easily ruin your day

It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'

MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition review