While 007 First Light is the first actually good James Bond game in quite some time, developer IO Interactive has been making well-optimized PC games for years. It’s not surprising, then, that 007 First Light runs extremely well, at least once you clear its somewhat steep system requirements. The ga...

XR glasses like the Viture Beast have been around for a few years now, but I always saw them as kind of a gimmick. Back when the original Legion Go handheld came out, I tried Lenovo’s first try at the Legion Glasses, and while they were definitely neat, they were fiddly and just ended up giving me a...

When incremental "second-gen" earbuds land I always hunt the originals, which are nearly as good and often far cheaper.Bose's 2025 QuietComfort Ultra (2nd gen) earbuds are, by any measure, incremental upgrades. Same shape, same drivers, same battery life as the first generation, with t...

The Steam Deck has now been sold out for a few months, and it's not clear if or when Valve is going to get more stock in. While it's possible that at least some of the 'game console' shipments the company has been getting in could be handhelds, it's possible that Valve just waits...

Alienware has always been known for its over-the-top and expensive gaming PCs, but it just announced the Alienware 15, its first true budget gaming laptop.The Alienware 15 will come with either an AMD Ryzen or Intel Core chip, along with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU to start, with options to spec...

Ever since they started coming out on PC, the Forza Horizon games have been some of the best PC ports around, which is a huge reason why I use them whenever I test any kind of hardware. Despite the excellent visuals that this series has given us time and time again, the games scale exceptionally wel...

SteelSeries' honeycombed Aerox 3 was one of the best gaming mice of 2022 – so I was hoping for fireworks when I began testing the new $110 "Gen 2" refresh, which keeps the same design but with a better sensor, higher polling rate and longer battery life.Those improvements add up to a s...

Are the EarFun Air Pro 4 Plus the best sub-$100 earbuds around? These new buds, an upgrade to the Pro 4s from 2024, have got rave reviews and they're certainly bursting with more Bluetooth tech than any other $100/£90 earbuds I've tested, including a dedicated gaming mode, dual device connec...

The Nothing Phone 4a Pro is a proper midranger, coming in with a starting price of $499. It doesn’t boast a flagship chip or exotic materials, but it doesn’t shy away from premium elements either. What it may lack in some departments, it may more than make up for with its cameras. So if you’re looki...

Things have sure been heating up for the Steam Machine over the last couple weeks. On top of shipment data suggesting Valve's mini gaming PC is coming soon, code found in the latest Steam update hints at the different versions of the console that'll be available.Spotted by Wccftech, it seems...

Go big or go home. That feels like the entire mantra of the HP Omen Max 45L’s design. It has an enormous RTX 5090 that’s somehow even larger in this configuration with its anti-sag bracket. It has boat loads of memory, plenty of storage, and a huge case that completely silos off the CPU cooling in a...

With product branding that's perhaps a bit too contrived for its own good, the G'AIM'E Time Crisis Light Gun from Tassei Denki nevertheless convinced nearly 6,000 worldwide Kickstarter backers it was a project worth supporting. On offer was a plug-and-play light gun console with up to fo...

Valve is opening a reservation queue for the Steam Controller following overwhelming initial demand. The Steam Controller (which is excellent) went on sale earlier this week, but sold out nearly instantly and many users reported a frustrating experience trying to secure a unit of their own. To allev...

Amazon’s Kindle Scribe Colorsoft represents the tech giant's most ambitious, and expensive, E Ink device to date. It marries the large-format digital notebook concept of the original Scribe with the color technology recently introduced to the smaller Kindle lineup. Priced at a premium that puts...

Ever since Nvidia revealed frame generation with the RTX 4080, I have been dreading the day that a game developer uses it as a requirement to get to an acceptable frame rate. And while we’ve gone almost four years without that happening, it seems like Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is going...

Mice from leading Chinese manufacturers used to be called "clones," but that no longer feels fair. Many are clearly inspired by the shape and features of well-known Western devices but they're also solid mice in their own right, and often cheaper.Rawm is one of the brands whose reputat...

Just this week, Valve launched the Steam Controller on its own, despite it initially being planned for launch at the same time as the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame. But it looks like Valve has been getting a lot of shipments of "game consoles." Could this mean an imminent Steam Machine...

High-end modern gaming mice float in tasty but samey soup. A snappy sensor, 8,000Hz polling rate, and a 100-hour battery feel almost mandatory – variations in shape are the main differentiator.The Logitech Pro X2 Superstrike is, quite literally, built different. Its Haptic Inductive Trigger System (...

Among the many gaming headset manufacturers out there, few are doing it as well as SteelSeries; and the new Arctis Nova Pro Omni is further proof. It's a new entry into the Arctis Nova line, in addition to the Arctis Nova Pro, which has been one of our top headset recommendations for years here...

It's no secret that gaming on Windows 11 has been a little rough in recent years. Performance and usability problems have been plaguing the OS for a while now, but it seems like Microsoft is finally trying to do something about it. Microsoft has kicked off an internal initiative codenamed Window...