PLAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME

Who needs a new console release when there's a plethora of fresh games and accessories for every platform, not to mention the latest generation of specialist laptops? Here’s our guide to this year’s greatest buys for players...

- Andrew Williams

RAZER BLADE 16

Right, let's just get it out R of the way: this laptop costs an absolute fortune. Even without all the upgrades I've got here - an Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics card, 32GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD (taking it over £4000) the 2024 Blade 16 is still expensive. But you really do get what you pay for.

The stiff all-metal chassis makes it look like a MacBook's evil twin, and aside from the light-up logo on the lid it could almost pass for a business machine... albeit one that's about a kilogram heavier than anything you'd want to lug to the office every day.