Hardware Editor
James retired from writing about Dota for RPS to write about hardware for RPS. His favourite watercooler radiator size is 280mm and he always takes advantage of RGB lighting by setting everything to a solid light blue.
James Archer
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Best early Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals 2022
SSDs, monitors, peripherals and more, across the UK and US
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The best gaming microphones for PC: our picks of the best USB mics
Now we're talking
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Our favourite games of 2022 so far
The 20 games that have kept us glued to our screens since January
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Valve halve Steam Deck SSD bandwidth on some models, say games performance is unaffected
256GB and 512GB Decks could include the lower-spec NVMe drives
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Sony return to PC hardware with premium gaming monitors and headsets
New InZone brand goes beyond the PS5
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RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2005
Some spicy choices for our favourite games of 2005, and why they should be saved
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Valve designer: No, seriously, don’t make this Steam Deck SSD mod
“Hi, please don’t do this”
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Valve are “more than doubling” weekly Steam Deck shipments
Q3 reservations will become available from this week
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Nvidia DLAA: How it works, supported games and performance vs DLSS
AI-powered anti-aliasing for more powerful RTX graphics cards
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Here are all the confirmed ray tracing and DLSS games so far
Get your RTX and RDNA 2 graphics cards at the ready
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There’s a flood of cheap ex-mining GPUs, but you probably shouldn’t buy one
Miners are holding livestreamed auctions just to shift them
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The trials and terrors of benchmarking The Cycle: Frontier
Dodging death in pursuit of frame rates
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No, you won’t need a Core 10th Gen CPU or newer for Intel Arc graphics cards
Demystifying Intel’s Arc quick start guide
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Best gaming headsets: our top wired and wireless picks for PC
Our top gaming headset recommenations
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Best gaming keyboards: the top mechanical and wireless keyboards for gaming
Our favourite gaming keyboard picks for all budgets
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Our eight favourite games from not E3 2022
Team RPS talks the best bits of Geoff Fest
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Best gaming mouse: the top wired and wireless mice for gaming
Our tried and tested gaming mouse picks
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V Rising is fiddly, but playable on the Steam Deck following Proton update
Turns out vampires can go out in the sun
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The first Intel Arc graphics card has arrived… in China
The Intel Arc A380 goes for 1080p at 60fps
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Liveblog: Xbox Games Showcase Extended 2022
A more in-depth look at Xbox/Bethesda’s Not E3 announcements
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The best microSD cards for the Steam Deck
Expand your Steam Deck’s storage with these tried-and-tested cards
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Best SSD for gaming 2022: our top SATA and NVMe picks
Our top solid state drive recommendations
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SCP: Secret Files looks like the most ambitious SCP game yet, and there’s a Steam Next Fest demo
A genre-blending anthology