Video games have always been known to be visual spectacles, but how you hear the game can alter your experience as well. While many gaming headsets offer premium sound or wireless features, style usually takes a distant second place to substance. It doesn’t have to be this way; just because you’re at home gaming doesn’t mean you should have to sacrifice good looks. Aiming to resolve the issue, LucidSound looks to deliver high quality sound in a stylish shell with their new universal headset dubbed the LS-30. Touting a $150 price tag, 50 mm drivers, wireless capability, and more, do the LS-30 have enough to become your new go-to headset?
In this video we go hands-on with the LS-30 to see if they are more than just a pretty face for gamers. See how the headset works and hear our thoughts after weeks of trenuous use in this quick video review. Featuring unique game and chat volume controls, a convenient boom-mic and built-in mic monitoring, there’s plenty in store.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.