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The most confusing gaming acronyms (and more!) ranked

November 10, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Hey. Yo. I know I’m the MVP in this DLC, but BRB as I’m going AFK so watch out for those high DPS killer NPCs on your HDR screen! Did you understand all of that? If so, you get brownie points, as every acronym mentioned above is ranked in the 10 most confusing gaming acronyms […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Gaming

Gaming earbuds are getting increasingly popular – and a great way to stop those headphone dents!

August 1, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

According to Exploding Topics, gaming earbuds – especially Logitech gaming earbuds specifically – are experiencing a massive boom in terms of search trend popularity at the moment. Y’know; gaming earbuds – the small, in-ear headphones that are designed specifically for gaming purposes whilst providing high-quality sound to your ears and cancelling out background noise. Yeah, […]

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How cool is this map of the highest rated video games developed in each country?!

June 12, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Guide Strats has released a map of the highest rated video games developed in each country, with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (developed by Nintendo in Japan) ranking at no.1. In order to get the findings, the video game guide company analysed the Metacritic scores of 20,000 titles, before looking at each game’s […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: games, Gaming, stats, zelda

‘Still Wakes the Deep’ trailer: an oil rig horror game from the studio behind ‘Dear Esther’

June 11, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

We’ve just watched the announcement trailer for Still Wakes the Deep, the latest game from The Chinese Room – and we’re excited for it! That’s right, the studio that brought us Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is coming at us with a new oil rig horror game that promises […]

Filed Under: Console, Games, PC Tagged With: games, Gaming, horror

Gamers finding dents in their heads from prolonged headphone use is nightmare fuel

June 9, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Gamers have been showing the dents in their heads from wearing headphones for prolonged periods of time, and we’re all a little freaked out by it. It all started when Twitch streamer Curtis (AKA Curtoss) livestreamed himself as he shaved his hair for charity, only to discover live on camera that his gaming headset had left quite […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Gaming

New Razer ‘Rapid Trigger’ mode introduced for analogue keyboards

June 8, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Great news for Razer keyboard users today, as the reknowned tech company has just unveiled an exciting new feature known as ‘Rapid Trigger Mode’ for its users. Specifically designed for the Razer Huntsman V2 Analog and Razer Huntsman Mini Analogue keyboards, this feature can be enabled through the Razer Synapse software. With the aim of […]

Filed Under: Games, PC Tagged With: Gaming, keyboard

PlayStation 5 4-in-1 microphone looks like a Portal turret

May 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To ensure the best possible recordings, the Fyru features a zero-latency headphone monitoring port.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Gaming

Rehab for a girl of 9 so addicted to Fortnite she wet herself rather than stop playing

June 10, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

British press is reporting about horrified parents and game addiction. The young girl would prefer to wet herself than take a break from the game. She would secretly get up at night and play until to dawn only then to doze off in class the following day. Attempts to remove her from the console resulted […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: epic, fortnite, Gaming, xbox

Gamers grow up in many places at once…

May 30, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A rather awesome animated comic from Books of Adam. It’s true too. Gaming fires the imagination.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Gaming

OnLive Goes Live In UK

September 22, 2011 by Brian Leave a Comment

Cloud-based gaming service OnLive went live today across the UK. If you’ve missed the fairly quiet build-up to this, OnLive is a subscription based video games service which runs through basically any screen you have connected to the internet from your Android device up to your HDTV. Basically, it is another way to play the […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Gaming, OnLive

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