Tech & Gear Reviews

We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to portable computing these days. Do you want to lug around what’s essentially a portable desktop that needs to be plugged in at all times for full power, a lightweight notebook that can only do the basics, or something in the

“This laptop doesn’t breathe at all, does it?” exclaimed my wife as we embarked on our co-op adventures in the game Raft, and she was right. So many gaming laptops are built for speed and size. The teams behind them do their very best to create new and impressive

Don’t cite the deep magic to me, PC gamers, I was there when you had to edit your config.sys and autoexec.bat before you could play games. Back in the earliest days of PC gaming, when your sound card had to be configured with physical jumpers just to

There are plenty of gear and accessories I’ve reviewed over my time at Gaming Trend, but I don’t think I ever assumed prescription lenses would ever be a part of that. I am a glasses wearer, and while I’m not completely dependent on them to see, it

You might recall that I reviewed the Loupedeck CT – an ambitious and powerful control surface that immediately improved my workflow with programs like DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom, and the entire Adobe editing suite. Clearly aimed at the content creator, the Loupedeck CT is an impressive piece of hardware. The only big

I have a drawer in my office that is filled to the brim with highly-useful things that are only highly-useful in very specific situations. Obtuse cables, adapters both analog and digital, add-in cards, external hard drive readers and more soak up valuable storage space because I might need those items

I am someone who wears out a headset until it’s unusable. I had the same pair of Apple Earphones for four years before they broke. I had the same gaming headset for six years until I was given a headset three years ago that I was using until this

Sound can be an extremely underrated part of video games and much media. We love the pretty visuals, and obviously for gaming the gameplay has to be right, but a good or bad soundtrack, along with the mixing of sound effects and dialogue, can be the difference in whether you’