Technology Archives

We're about to dive into the prime season for fighting game tournaments around the U.S. with events like Dreamhack and Evo set to be some of the biggest draws of the year, and with it comes the yearly fascination from average gamers for proper arcade sticks. 

It seems over the past few months we've been talking about gear for people who are just barely getting into gaming or coming back to gaming and may not be sure what to buy. Razer has been positioning themselves as a company where it doesn't matter what level you're at, there's some kind of gear for you.

One of the best and worst items to ever come out of the Wii era for Nintendo was probably the Wii Wheel, primarily designed to be used with Mario Kart

Have you ever played with the Nintendo Switch with the Joy-Cons connected and wished they just created a proper D-Pad for the device? Well, it looks like Hori is going to fill that void that Nintendo left open. 

When it comes to gaming mice there are a lot of customization options you can get depending on what company you go through, but very few companies bother to incorporate two specific oddball concepts and slap them together.

In the grand search for better controllers to give us a better gaming experience, we found our way to Scuf Gaming who have been making their own special brand of PS4 and Xbox One controllers for the past few years.

We've talked in the past about people who at some point in time decide they want to either get back into gaming, or have suddenly found an appreciation or a love for it and want to dive in, but they just don't know where to start with gear.

If you're like me and you own one of the second or third runs of the PS4 just before the PS4 Pro came out, most likely the biggest complaint you have about the console is the storage capacity. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have 500GB, but that space can go quickly after about 20-30 games.

In our latest edition of Fortress Festoon, we'll go off the beaten path for a second when it comes to home design and focus more on something personal that while still stored at home on display, you can also take around town with you.

After seeing Apple release three new versions of the iPhone (iPhone X, iPhone 8, and iPhone 8 Plus) at prices that would make anyone's bank account weep, the company now has plans to release more versions that will apparently be bigger and cost even more than these.

The last of the Alienware products to come across our desks in the past few months is their Pro Gaming Keyboard, the AW768 to be specific.

Corsair recently released a brand new gaming headset by the name of the HS60, a follow-up model to the HS50 with the added bonus of featuring 7.1 surround sound audio as part of its features. 

Another piece of Alienware tech that came our way recently is their Elite Gaming Mouse, the AW958 to be specific, which up until this point we've only seen people use in videos and haven't had the chance to practice with it ourselves.

A few weeks ago we got the latest expansion packs from Dropmix, the card-based DJ game that allows you to compete with and against your friends in a battle to make the best mixes possible using samples of popular songs.

We recently got some awesome stuff from the crew at Alienware to check out and review for your personal PC gaming needs, and we're going to start off with two items that may not immediately come to mind but are necessities for a lot of players.

Secretlab was kind enough to send us a Titan chair last year, which we enjoyed checking out and seeing how well they held up to other brands on the market. But as we enter a new year, the company chose to roll out a few new models for 2018.

A few months ago, Razer released a brand new version of their Xbox controller in the form of the Wolverine Ultimate. Seeing as how we now have access to an Xbox One X, we felt it was time to put this sucker to the test and give it a proper review on both the console and the PC

I've been a fan of Ultimate Ears for several years now. One of Logitech's more premiere lines of creative audio products, they're primarily known for the Boom and Blast Bluetooth speaker series, but they also have Ultimate Ears Pro, which does custom mold earbuds and in-ear monitors.

A while ago we got a cool Batmobile in the mail, but it wasn't just any ol' Batmobile. No sir! This was the Ultimate Justice League Batmobile from Mattel designed to look and operate like the one from Batman V. Superman and Justice League.

If you're one of the many gamers who has been drooling over getting a new Razer Phone, simply just to play games on, you're probably going to be salivating a little more over the next edition of the phone on the way.

Online gaming is a massively lucrative industry, and that just might come with some new problems. The industry is potentially lucrative for cybercriminals, as hacked gaming accounts can be sold on the black market.

I find myself being a much bigger audiophile as a grown adult than I like to admit, and it isn't even from having a strong love of music or a sense of what makes good audio in a game. I've just learned over time that if I'm going to listen to something, it might as well be the best.

When Nintendo releases the NES Classic Edition and the SNES Classic Edition, you knew it was only a matter of time before someone found a way to hook up some better gear. Enter the folks at My Arcade, who designed a wireless controller specifically for these systems

I've never personally enjoyed driving wheels because a lot of them feel like gimmicks. We could run down the list from the V-Thunder all the way to the Wii Wheel of products that promised a driving experience and failed to deliver. 

Over the holidays we were sent something of a throwback from Retro-Bit in the form of a retro gaming console. To be specific, they sent us the Super Retro-Cade, a brand new retro console to compete in the same realm with all the systems that have been released over the past year or so

We've had a couple different gaming mice sent to us over the past year, some are super high text and have a lot of awesome features, while others are simplistic and to the point in their functionality to get you the best game possible.

Snapchat's corporate parent company Snap Inc. has laid off 22 staffers as part of a wider reorganization this week. While some of the staffers laid off were part of Snap’s content team, the majority were from other teams in the company.

Not to be left out of the wireless gaming mouse conversation, Razer announced this week that they're jumping into the game themselves with their own model the mouse in question is called the Mamba HyperFlux, and employs the same kind of technology as others

Considering how much we've been going to conventions over the past year and have slowly been expanding into Twitch streams, it's become a bit of a priority on our end to do more live broadcasting.

There's little doubt that we're moving into an era of gaming where 4K and HDR capabilities are going to become a must for everyone, much the way HD practically became the norm in the mid-'00s.