COUCH POTATOES

WITH MICROSOFT AND SONY gearing up for battle, and our living rooms acting as the arena in which the next console war will be fought, the PC is in a strange place. Yes, consoles have their advantages, and we love them dearly (you’ll have to pry the Nintendo Switch Lite from our cold, dead hands), but our beloved PCs are only getting better too.

Discrete GPUs are becoming more powerful, and PCs maintain superior flexibility over consoles—we’d like to see an Xbox run the Adobe Creative Suite—and former big exclusives like Halo and Horizon: Zero Dawn are steadily beginning to make their way over to our desktops.

So, this month we’re firing back with a build that can sit under or beside your TV, using a controller or lapboard for a spot of living room gaming. If you build this PC, we want you to be able