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3.3KGaming Trend Last Second Holiday Guide 2016
2016 has been an absolutely awful year. Celebrity deaths aplenty, a contentious and divisive election, and a ton of game delays. Even...
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Powerful hardware at a perfect price – ZyXEL Armor Z2 AC2600 Router review
There are a lot of router manufacturers out there, but unless you have a background in Network Engineering, it’s hard to know...
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Excellence on a budget: HyperX Cloud Stinger headset review
If you’re like me, then you probably don’t like things on your head. But if you’re also like me, you play a...
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Built to last — HyperX Cloud Revolver review
My old headset has been sitting on the shelf for months. It’s not that the Cloud Revolver, HyperX’s new PC headset, is...
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Next-Generation Gaming PCs – A cautionary tale
By Brad Wardell (Stardock) and Ron Burke (GamingTrend) During both of our PC gaming lifetimes, we’ve always built our own machines. As...
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Spin, sit, and splash – Sumo Air Review
While one of the hottest summers on record continues to crisp us up in north Texas, Laura and I take to the...
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Eye tracking hits a level of maturation – Tobii EyeX eye tracker review
There hasn’t been a lot of innovation in the peripheral input device market beyond higher DPI mice. Sure, we had trackballs, gun-shaped...
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Boss Monster heading to VR systems
The Boss Monster series has two big box games and a couple of expansions. Sometimes it’s hard to get people to play...
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Mouse moves like Jagger: Enhance GX-MP5 and GX-MP6 review
I always thought that a mousepad was a pretty simple thing, nothing to be concerned with in the whole scope of the...
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Soothes the need for speed – Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4 Memory Review
Micron is one of the oldest names in the business. Formed in 1978, they were one of the “founding fathers” of the...
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Seeing is believing: HTC Vive review
It’s hard to quantify and define the experience of virtual reality to an outside party. Words like “presence” and “immersion” come to...
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Razer debuts new Overwatch line of Chroma products
Razer, longtime makers of gaming peripherals, have announced a line of their Chroma products today themed after the upcoming Blizzard team shooter,...
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HyperX premieres Cloud Revolver gaming headset
Makers of the prior Cloud headsets, HyperX, announced today that their new headset in the Cloud series will debut May 9, 2016....
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NVidia Shield Review – A three-way shootout of settop boxes
I just want to be able to watch TV shows and play games on my PC wherever I’m most comfortable. It’s not...
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Building a PC – an inception-level adventure in awesome
I’ve helped more than a few of our readers with their DIY PC-building efforts in the past. As I went through another...
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MSI Z170 Gaming M7 motherboard review
I’ve been taking apart, tinkering inside of, and building PCs since the Commodore-64 days. In the transition to the x86, I started...
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HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe SSD review
As you know from my review for it, I selected an MSI Z170A Gaming M7 motherboard for my most recent upgrade. One...
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1005.4KHyperX FURY DDR4 module review
If you are like most people, you understand the first few words of a product description like “Kingston Technology HyperX FURY 2666MHz...
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PAX South: Kingston showcases HyperX lineup of awesome headsets
We got a personal tour of the Kingston booth at PAX South and two headsets caught our eyes (or more accurately, our...
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Thrustmaster Announces Multi-Platform Gaming Headset
Today, gaming headset manufacturer Thrustmaster announced the Y-300CPX, a multi-platform headset. The new set headset is compatible with all platforms, even smartphones...
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Logitech announces new RGB gaming keyboard
Logitech’s selection of keyboards has expanded with the Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum gaming keyboard. The $159.99 keyboard features Romer-G mechanical switches that...
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Power2U USB Wall Outlet — The Modern Geek’s wall plug
I’m gonna start this article with a bit of an admission – I’m terrified of electricity. I was electrified and heavily scarred...
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Sumo Titanium Review — Good for the butt, good for the soul
For those of you who are longtime readers, you know that I’ve been on a personal quest to fill the bucket list...
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Nyko Type Pad review – a big step forward, but at a cost
As I hold my Day One controller from my launch Xbox One, it occurs to me that it has been two years...
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Nyko releases new Type Pad compatible with both Xbox One controller models
Nyko has released a new keypad for the Xbox One, which includes small tweaks based on consumer feedback. The QWERTY keyboard is...
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Audio heaven: HyperX Cloud II headset review
Many people forgot the importance of a good sound system. Hearing footsteps behind you, to just listening to rain falling, a great...
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Rediscovering Sound — Wicked Audio’s Reverb Headphones
I so often find myself utilizing less than ideal mechanisms for the enjoyment of music and game audio (my buzzing car stereo,...
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925Razer and Counter Logic Gaming Collaborate on New Gaming Keyboard
Hardware manufacturer Razer has released a new gaming keyboard as part of a collaboration with eSports organization Counter Logic Gaming. The keyboard...
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Steelseries’ new mousepad hopes to be “the last surface you will ever need to buy”
The computer peripheral company Steelseries has announced the new DeX mousepad at Gamescom this year. Steelseries promises that the mousepad will feature...
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HyperX Cloud review
The first thing I noticed when I opened up the box for the HyperX Cloud headset from Kingston was how nicely everything...
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Behind the Scenes of Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
The classic Genesis title Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse gets remade for 2013. Sit down with the developers and hear what...
