I’m selling these fine leather jackets — Return to Monkey Island, the latest adventure game from industry luminaries and game design geniuses Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman, is a competent well-made thing, but it’s dripping with a brand of nostalgia-baiting that doesn’t do a ton for me personally. I’m happy it exists, but the pile of references…

Incredible sound in an affordable package — Last year, when I first reviewed the Logitech G535, it almost felt like a stealth launch. It had no marketing push. It had no fancy techno-laden product trailer. …

Ew, no. — For years, the HyperX Cloud Stinger has been a great lower-priced entry point into the world of gaming headsets, sitting at $50 but offering some nice perks. I loved it when it launched, I loved it when they tacked on ten more dollars to the price and added a surround…

Can’t SteelSeries Do Better? — Take a look at the above image. It’s a close-up of the upper left of the front side of the box for the new SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7 wireless gaming headset — and it set my brain spinning. This box is a total mess. It’s everything wrong with gaming peripheral…

Which one is a scam? — I’ll get right to the point: Hi-res audio is a ludicrous marketing trick used to con people out of their money, and lossless audio is good/fine/great/etc. What do you do if you’re an audio manufacturer and you achieve too much sonic accuracy? When headphones and speakers and receivers get too…

A solid premium wired option — Just over four years ago, when SteelSeries first announced their “Pro” series of headsets, I had a negative reaction. The marketing focused on hi-res audio support, something that isn’t all that useful outside the production realm and something that no single game had shipped with at the time. I ended…

Countless user defect reports appearing online — Last week, Razer completed their new trifecta of high-end premium wireless gaming mice with the sudden release of the Basilisk V3 Pro. I was all ready to rush out and buy one to review — but then I saw many reports of issues flood the internet. It seems that a…

Latency and awkward software problems abound — When I reviewed the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless earlier this year, I was hoping for a home run. …

Fun is better than perfect — Every gamer’s hand is different, and every gamer has a different set of opinions about what’s important in a mouse. …