Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

When we took Corsair’s first gaming headset for a spin last fall, the HS1, we were left impressed by the fact that the company went for balanced audio instead of boomy bass, resulting in a refreshing listening experience. As they were USB-based, though, some who owned dedicated audio cards shunned them. The remedy? The HS1A.

Remember that 2.6 petaflop monster supercomputer from China, the Tianhe-1A, you know, only the fastest super computer known to man? That’s so 6 months ago and so slow. This week saw a new supercomputer rise to the top spot, the K Computer from Japan with a dizzying 8.16 petaflops under Linpack – and it’s not even complete…

Starting today, Steam, the online games distribution service from Valve, will be starting up a new service of sorts, free to play games. Steam normally sells games while offering demo downloads for free, but does not support actual free games. This is most likely down to a certain fiscal element not being provided for the bandwidth…

At their release, Logitech’s X-540 5.1 speakers were a hit, thanks to their affordable price and feature-set. In fact, our review from five years ago is still regularly read today. So what about their successor, the Z506? Carrying the same $99 price tag, does Logitech once again give us an affordable 5.1 offering worth considering?

After being lambasted for inappropriate forum comments, making up stories about children’s hamsters, distasteful wit in IRC and being involved in a rather unfortunate accident with a meringue and some 8 gauge wire; I ended up in Hell, forever listening to such great hits as Aqua’s Barbie Girl and a certain tongue tied individual expressing…

Dust off those faded, sun-damaged, dog-chewed Duke Nukem Forever pre-order receipts from 15 years ago, because hell has finally started to freeze-over, for under the mighty power of golden god rays from a halogen lamp, the press-ready disc has been conceived. What am I on about? Duke Nukem Forever‘s gone gold!

A war is brewing. Monarchs, Lords and Nobility squabble away over fractured lands, the Mages fight amongst themselves, deception runs rife, corrupt officials, over-taxation and a world full of monsters to cast asunder – Geralt of Rivia is back, in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

Trion’s commitment to the community can only be described as outstanding. In an update coming this summer to its MMO RIFT, the company will be offering players the ability to transfer their characters to a different server for free. There are a few restrictions (as always), but to offer up for free what would normally cost you a month’s…

In our look at Corsair’s SP2500 high-end speakers back in March, we were left impressed by the quality offered – especially for the company’s initial offering. With its mainstream SP2200, priced at $100, the company had quite a job at hand to make sure that users received a perfect balance of features and audio quality. Has it succeeded?

Finding a good gaming mouse isn’t hard, but finding one that’s wireless is. Even high-end options suffer from a major flaw: poor battery life. GIGABYTE realizes this and made sure no one could say that about its Aivia M8600, which in our tests lasted an entire week in ‘gaming’ mode. Let’s see if that, and its other features, warrant the M8600’s $105 price.

Adobe normally announces product refreshes once every 2 years or so, but out of the blue comes the Creative Suite 5.5 release, and as the name suggests, a half step between CS5 and CS6. This is part of a new strategy outlined by Adobe to cover emerging publishing standards between each major release, such as HTML5…

Ah, I’d love to use a high DPI mouse, every day – And kick major ass in every game I play – But until I get another, where the sensor doesn’t lack – I’ll do what I can, and use the mouse called BLACK.

ASUS recently announced that a number of its AM3 based motherboards will be able to support AMD’s upcoming AM3+ Bulldozer based processors via a BIOS update. While not much of a surprise, it’s still great that existing users with one of the selected motherboards will be able to upgrade without too much hassle…

Filling out its eSPORTS line-up, Thermaltake recently released three different gaming headsets under the “Shock” name, with the lowest-end $60 offering being the one we’re taking a look at here. Tuned for gamers in terms of both aesthetics and audio, does Tt’s first go at a gaming headset prove to be an impressive one?

With the launch of its HS1 headset last fall, Corsair proved that the audio market wasn’t one it was planning on jumping into without first making sure that its products would impress. But what about those gamers that don’t like to use headphones? The answer is the SP2500, a speaker set with a unique design, and a lot of power.

Drinking in games can be a humorous past time, get a few giggles in before taking on a horde of bad guys under very one sided conditions (no force of evil can match the mighty Quick Save/Load). But ever stopped to wonder how realistic this drunkard behavior, slurred speech and floor collapsing humor can be? Nah, me neither.

For the gamer looking to find a great mouse, the choices are limitless. But how often does one “feel” perfect? To cater to gamers who don’t mind taking time to customize a mouse to a huge degree, Mad Catz delivers its R.A.T. series. With full ability to customize both the body and software, R.A.T. could be perfect for everyone.

A couple weeks ago, a group of modders decided to create nice little mod for StarCraft II, introducing MMO elements into custom maps for the venerable game. A pre-alpha demo was posted on YouTube which caught the attention of Activision Blizzard, which was quickly followed by a cease and desist notice. The problem was not with the…

Here’s some interesting numbers to mull over; Valve’s digital distribution arm, Steam, was estimated to bring in just shy of $1 billion in revenue during 2010. Steam officially doesn’t release sales figures, so these can be taken with a pinch of salt, but the numbers are impressive none-the-less. Total revenue of around…

So with the first month of the year gone, leaving me clueless as to where it went, lets have a look at how the Internet browser market is fairing. The big news would be that Chrome has finally broken the double digit barrier at 10.7% market share, up from 9.98% in December. This is largely due to taking chunks out of IE, which has hit…