
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.
Ghostwire: Tokyo haunted by game-breaking black screens on the Steam Deck
A hardware horror story
AMD FSR 2.0 is a more demanding, higher-quality upscaling upgrade
How AMD’s performance-boosting tech is getting smarter and sharper
Come take the RPS walking tour through Ghostwire: Tokyo
This is now an ASMR website, sorry
One month with the Steam Deck: what’s changed and what I’ve learnt
Portable PC is going places
AMD Radeon Super Resolution is FSR-style upscaling for almost any game
Like Nvidia Image Scaling, but for AMD GPUs
Oh hey, the new NZXT Function keyboards are pretty good
NZXT’s first gaming keyboards are quality peripherals with hot-swappable mechanical switches
The “world’s fastest gaming CPU”, AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D, gets a price and release date
AMD also launching lower-end chips and widening motherboard compatibility
DirectStorage API finally launches, faster SSD performance beckons
Loading times facing the chop
MSI Raider GE76 review: meet the Intel Core i9-12900HK and RTX 3080 Ti
A showcase of the latest laptop CPU and GPU champions
Steam Deck gets Windows drivers to make switching OS easier
The speakers won’t work, though
How to install the Epic Games Launcher on the Steam Deck
No Windows installation or hardcore Linux engineering required
How is the Steam Deck as a desktop PC?
Taking on 1080p
Here are the Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin system requirements
Spare 80GB, stranger?
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 review: DLSS for less
A good 1080p graphics card you can actually buy
The Steam Deck is finally here – we asked Valve how it was built, and where it’s going next
Steam Deck engineer says part replacements still “best left to pros”
Upgrade at your own risk
Proton update soothes Elden Ring stuttering on the Steam Deck
No such luck on Windows yet
Valve’s Steam Deck prototypes: the best, the worst, and the utterly cursed
The Steam Decks that never were
Don’t expect games designed just for the Steam Deck, Valve say
Deck designers reckon what’s good for the handheld is good for the desktop
These are the current Steam Deck Verified games
All the Steam Deck games that passed Valve's tests
Here's what Valve have been playing on Steam Deck
Game recommendations straight from the source
Consolidation in games must “create value for customers,” says Gabe Newell
“How are you making your game developers better developers?”
Gabe Newell: NFT actors “not people you want to be doing business with”
Valve head speaks on “criminal activity” around NFTs and why Steam stopped accepting cryptocurrency