Twenty bucks (or £20) won’t buy you a nice set of 7.1 surround gaming headphones, but it can help you fake it with Razer’s THX Spatial Audio App for Windows 10. It uses the same underlying technology as Razer puts into its headsets, but generalizes it to work with all brands and types (analog, USB …
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Apple Arcade updates Pac
This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. On Friday, Apple Arcade, Apple’s $4.99-a-month gaming service, launched updates for Pac-Man Party Royale, The Pinball Wizard, Over the Alps and Agent Intercept. The gaming service has been updating a few games every week in tandem with releasing new titles for its …
Read More »Apple Arcade’s Little Orpheus game is a new take on the space race
This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade on Friday added Little Orpheus from developer The Chinese Room and publisher Sumo Digital, to its growing catalog of over 100 games. In Little Orpheus, set in 1962 amid NASA trying to put a man on the moon, …
Read More »Oculus Quest a year later: Still the best VR headset, but not the perfect one
VR experiences, for me, usually follow a certain pattern. Sometimes I feel like a futuristic pilot, or a wizard about to cast a teleportation spell. I grab the headset, slip it on, slide the controllers on my wrists. I check my space, cast a long arc to draw my magic circle. The world disappears. I’m in. Going from my reality …
Read More »Twitch streamers see ‘sudden influx’ of copyright takedown requests for old clips
A number of Twitch streamers have received Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests for alleged music copyright violations in videos posted between 2017 and 2019. Each notice works like a strike against a streamer’s account. Three strikes and the channel could be banned from the Amazon-owned gaming streaming site. Early Monday morning, Twitch Support tweeted a thread about the takedown …
Read More »Oceanhorn 2 new Golden Edition update launches on Apple Arcade
This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm, the open-world action fantasy RPG from Cornfox & Bros., launched its Golden Edition update on Friday. It’s the biggest update since its exclusive iOS release in 2019, according to a …
Read More »Get a deal on an Asus gaming laptop at Amazon or Best Buy
The Asus ROG Zephyrus is the company’s thinnest, most compact gaming laptop. Despite its trim dimensions, which pack a 15.6-inch display into a 14-inch chassis, the ROG Zephyrus doesn’t sacrifice performance. It offers the latest silicon from AMD and Intel as well as GPUs from Nvidia’s current GeForce RTX line. Read more: Best laptops of 2020 The RTX 2060 is …
Read More »Razer Ornata v2 keyboard remains a mechanical
I’ve been a huge fan of the Ornata’s hybrid keys since I first laid fingers on it a few years ago. I love the keys on the newer SteelSeries Apex 5 as well — at least for typing. Razer’s $100 Ornata v2 follows directly in the earlier model’s footsteps with a small tweak: There are now media keys above the number …
Read More »HP amplifies its audio game with new accessories
HP released a flock of new sub-$100 gaming accessories, including its first 2.1-channel speaker system and wireless headset for gamers, as well as a couple of mice. Joining the budget crew is a curved 24-inch gaming monitor, which isn’t quite budget-range for its feature set. Enlarge Image The HP X1000 Wireless Gaming Headset. HP The new audio products round out …
Read More »HP’s new Omen 15 gaming laptop promises big performance in a smaller size
On the heels of a reset of the Omen gaming brand and a new gaming desktop, HP announced a complete redesign of its 15.6-inch laptop, the Omen 15. Available to order today from Best Buy starting at $1,250 and directly from HP starting at less than $1,000, the updated design has its smallest footprint yet, but it’s filled with the …
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