My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is

Gear of the Year

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Check out more of the year's best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage.

Despite a lacklustre GPU generation and the RAMpocalypse, this year's PC gaming hardware has made me very happy. That's because 2025 has seen some meaningful, non-gimmicky leaps forward in competitive FPS gaming hardware. And no, I'm not talking about unreasonably high refresh rates on monitors—although the ones from Asus I saw at Gamescom did impress me, whether OLED or TN—I'm talking about peripherals.