If you liked PS2 action games you’ll probably enjoy it — The odds are good that you’ve forgotten about Gungrave, if you ever even knew what it was in the first place. It had fallen out of my memory almost entirely until I saw that this third entry in the now twenty-years-dormant game franchise was launching this week. Gungrave was a…

2022’s Best New Gaming Keyboard — I went into this review with extreme skepticism. The original Apex Pro was an excellent keyboard overall, but it lacked some modern features that I’ve come to expect like a removable cable and PBT key caps. SteelSeries stuck with their older design for longer than…

Good for fans, but you can do better — If you’re one of the legions of folks who love the venerable Logitech G502 gaming mouse, then this year your ship finally came in. However, most gamers looking for a high-end performance mouse experience should probably at least consider other options. Logitech finally joined the…

It only took five years of pointless tweaking — During its beta period back in 2017, I loved the Microsoft Spatial Audio system (formerly known as Windows Spatial Audio). This a virtual surround sound system built into Xbox One and Series consoles and the Windows platform. It takes game audio sources ranging from 5.1 and 7.1 tracks all the…

Only devotees of deep bass need apply — Every year around this time, my local Best Buy fills all of their available walkways with stacks of extra products, and grafts additional shelves on top of their shelves to put out even more stuff. This is all in preparation for the Black Friday/Holiday shopping…

An old budget headphone returns with a ridiculous name — I had to double-check the name of this headphone three times before writing it up there in the title. Yes, this is really the name that Monoprice went with for this headphone. It’s printed on both the box and online store listings, and it’s one of the most hilarious and…

An excellent new budget choice? — Skullcandy hasn’t been in the gaming headset space for a while. They used to own Astro (before selling it to Logitech), and years ago they also had their own in-house lineup of gaming headsets, but for the past several years they’ve focused on Bluetooth consumer gear instead. Now that’s all…

A new angular budget champion? — The HyperX Cloud Stinger 2 has almost nothing in common with its popular predecessor, sharing only its name and its $49.99 USD price point. The industrial design is totally new, and upon first seeing it — I had a bad reaction. Gone are the steel…

Fun traversal is everything — A significant percentage of video games are broadly about moving a character through some kind of world or place. The more fun that movement is, the better the game will be to play, and the longer players will stick with it. I play games with a friend every week, and…