Razer turned their budget champ into a premium cash grab — The Razer Viper Mini is one of Razer’s most popular gaming mice, particularly for those looking to maximize their value/performance ratio, and also those with smaller-to-average-sized hands. It’s never been a massive mainstream success, but you can’t dip your toe into any online mouse community…

My notes on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity — Part One — Like at least ten million other people out there, I’ve been playing through The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I’m at something around forty hours of playtime, and I’ve done a whole bunch of side stuff and just two of the game’s main dungeons. …

The progenitor of the looter shooter genre is still a brilliant classic — I attended a midnight retail release for the first Borderlands game in 2009, back when midnight game launches and physical disc copies were both still things people were interested in. I didn’t go anywhere special, just to my local GameStop where I was a somewhat-regular customer. …

Want to pay more money for one button and a light? — I generally love Razer’s “Basilisk” series of mice — even if they are just a careful non-legally-infringing copy of Logitech’s wildly popular G502 models. The Basilisk V3 is a true modern performer, with a cool smart scroll wheel that can auto change between different modes, and some of the best…

Breath of the Dark Souls — And here I am, nearly two months after the first installment of this supposed series, ready to talk about Elden Ring again. In that time, the ray tracing update’s performance has remained disappointing — so much so that I decided to take away the temptation entirely and started playing it…

The mouse that SteelSeries should have made years ago — If you came here from Google trying to find out if this new mouse is worth buying: Yes! Doubly so if it’s on a discount! For the rest of you, what follows is equal parts review and yet another rant about the sorry state of SteelSeries’ mouse lineup. This mouse…

A strong start? — All screens in this piece are from the first hour to avoid spoilers. The text below is also free of significant story details. I’m planning to write a clearly spoiler-tagged follow-up about this game soon. We’re almost ten years on now from Microsoft’s most high-profile failure in the gaming space…

Long live the Dynasty Warriors — I’ve loved the Dynasty Warriors series ardently since its original installments way back on the PS2. No, the fighting game on the PS1 that launched the brand name here in the US doesn’t count, at least for me. I would never be so bold as to collectively call this series…

A random guy tells you his issues with a big tech company — I generally like Corsair, and there’s no doubting they’re a large force in the enthusiast gaming PC space. They make such a complete product stack that you could have Corsair parts inside, around, and next to your gaming PC. …