Razer Soma Chroma gaming chair review

Picture the scene. It’s Christmas morning, the sky is still dark, and Santa is heaving his gigantic ass through your central heating ducts. He emerges into the living room; perhaps he oozes like toothpaste, or pops out fully formed like a jelly from a mould. We’ll never know. He looks around, picks a bit of…

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I thought from Logitech’s new Pro products I’d be most excited about the Superstrike, but after using them it’s actually the keyboard and mouse pad that have me grinning

Pro X3 Superstrike Analogue switches 135-hour battery life Refined balance $200 Pro X2 Rapid Hall effect Creamy sound Big wrist rest $230 Pro X Control Thick 460 x 400 mm Slow for control $59 Pro X 3 Lightspeed Great mic 70-hour battery life 50 mm graphene drivers $250 Logitech has just announced a whole range…

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My first MMO character #1: Harvey Randall

My first character was… Leetman, Human Rogue Born: ~2004-2006 Game: World of Warcraft My first ever character was in World of Warcraft, after—as my bio states—I pretty much begged my parents to give me a WoW subscription, and was rewarded for my articulation with a proper WoW account and a life-changingly debilitating enthusiasm for videogames….

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Wistful about Myst VI

Wistful about Myst VI. Two months after Cyan posted the 3-minute glimpse of its cancelled Myst project, it still stings to think that I won’t see a full performance from Noshir Dalal, the actor who performs the angry, Lex Luthor-style megalomaniac character seen in the trailer. Not nearly enough Andrew Ryans in gaming lately. Let…

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‘We hacked the FBI’ says previous Rockstar-breaching hacking group: ‘We hold data on all FBI employees and applicants’

High-profile hacking group ShinyHunters (the very same group that demanded a ransom from GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games earlier this year) has now claimed it’s managed to breach the internal databases of the US Federal Bureau of Investigations. Speaking to 404 Media, a representative of the group said that it now holds data on “all”…

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Console rumour time #235

Sometimes reliable leaker, KeplerL2, has taken to a Neogaf forum thread to note their predictions/expectations/made-up numbers for the performance of the next-gen consoles: PS6: 40 teraflops | Xbox Project Helix: 56 teraflops. That’s RX 9070+ kinda performance, and a theoretical 40% performance delta for the Microsoft console over the Sony slab of silicon. But teraflops…

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