Gaming
Epos has announced that it will be exiting the gaming headphone business and will instead focus on enterprise communications products. The company's gaming products division, which was formerly part of the legendary Sennheiser, was responsible for shipping a number of notable gaming headsets over the past decade. However, the continuing weakness of the wired consumer audio market – and especially the gaming market – has taken its toll. Established in 2020 when Sennheiser and its partner Demant decided to part ways from their joint venture of nearly 20 years, Demant-owned Epos became the new home for what were Sennheiser's enterprise and gaming product divisions. While hopes were high for Epos as the gaming market has been growing in the recent years, Epos's gaming business performed...
Logitech Acquires Loupedeck to Enhance Its Software Roadmap
Being a significant maker of peripherals in general and gaming peripherals in particular, Logitech cannot omit the content creators and streamers market, which is now virtually dominated by Corsair's...
6 by Anton Shilov on 7/18/2023Microsoft to Bring Game Pass Games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now
Microsoft on Sunday announced plans to bring select PC Game Pass games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now cloud streaming service later in 2023. The move will allow gamers to enjoy...
2 by Anton Shilov on 6/12/2023The MSI GE76 Raider Review: Tiger Lake Plus Ampere Equals Framerate
Let us pretend we are desktop people, thinking about building a new system. What would we look for? If we are after a gaming system, clearly we need a...
33 by Brett Howse on 9/8/2021Testing the New 3DMark CPU Benchmark: For the Boids
A couple of weeks ago, UL (formerly Futuremark) released the latest test in its ongoing 3DMark gaming benchmark suite, CPU Profile. The premise behind this new CPU-specific test is...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/15/2021After Selling HyperX to HP, Kingston Resurrects FURY Brand for DRAM and SSDs
Last week, we reported that the highly anticipated acquisition of Kingston's HyperX gaming brand by HP was completed for the sum of $325 million. As we noted, the terms...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/7/2021HP Completes HyperX Acquisition For $425 Million
Back in February, we revealed that HP was set to acquire the HyperX brand, the gaming subsidiary of Kingston Technology. HyperX has been the gaming branding for Kingston Technology...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/2/2021AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut
Headlining a busy Computex for AMD – and a bit of return to form in that regard – this evening the company is making several graphics and CPU-related product...
9 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2021The Razer Blade 15 (2021) Review: Amped Up With Ampere
The original Razer Blade tested the laptop waters for a company more known for gaming peripherals such as keyboards and mice, but the Blade lineup has transformed into a...
44 by Brett Howse on 3/11/2021The Redragon Devarajas K556 RGB Mechanical Keyboard Review: Jack Of Most Trades
Today we are having a close look at the Devarajas K556 RGB gaming keyboard from Redragon, a Chinese manufacturer of gaming peripherals. The company boasts excellent quality, performance, RGB...
32 by E. Fylladitakis on 2/4/2021CES 2021: ADATA Announces XPG Xenia Xe Gaming Ultrabook
At CES 2021, which switched to a virtual online-only format due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, ADATA has unveiled its latest gaming ultrabook, the XPG Xenia Xe. Based on...
10 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/13/2021Acer at CES 2021: Gaming Laptops Update With Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA Refreshes
Today at CES, Acer is announcing some refreshes of their gaming lineup as well as a brand-new compact gaming notebook. Acer has been a close partner with AMD over...
5 by Brett Howse on 1/12/2021The AMD CES 2021 Keynote: A Live Blog from 11am ET / 8am PT
For the second year in a row, AMD has an official CES Keynote. A year on from the launch of Ryzen 4000 Mobile series processors, and after a recent...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021Intel Xe Graphics: An Interview with VP Lisa Pearce
Bringing a new range of hardware to market is not an easy task, even for Intel. The company has an install base of its ‘Gen’ graphics in hundreds of...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/11/2020The Acer Nitro 5 Review: Renoir And Turing On A Budget
Acer has had a big year in 2020, thanks to their close relationship with AMD. Acer has long been a strong partner of AMD, through the good times, and...
52 by Brett Howse on 10/9/2020Yet Another Gaming Accessory with RGB: Uninterruptible Power Supply!
Just when you thought there was a gaming version of everything, with shiny flashing LEDs – we’ve seen storage SSDs, M.2 drives, fans, speakers, chairs, keyboards, headsets, mice, even...
30 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/28/2020Honor’s First Gaming Laptop: The Hunter V700
With all the political wrangling going on with Huawei and Honor, one product line that both companies seem to be able to push is the laptop and notebook business...
22 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/19/2020The Future Games Show, 28th August: 1.5hr of Demos and Updates, Showcasing 50+ Games
Want to catch some of the most interesting new trailers and gameplay footage from 50+ upcoming games, spanning AAA to indie? On Friday 28th August, at noon PDT /...
19 by Future Publishing on 8/27/2020Gaming AIs: NVIDIA Teaches A Neural Network to Recreate Pac-Man
Following last week’s virtual GTC keynote and the announcement of their Ampere architecture, this week NVIDIA has been holding the back-half of their conference schedule. As with the real...
20 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2020Dell Gaming Updates: Alienware Goes Super And Dell Adds Ryzen
Today Dell is refreshing the better portion of their gaming lineup, moving to the latest Comet Lake processors on both their Dell-branded Gaming laptops, as well as their Alienware...
18 by Brett Howse on 5/13/2020