Ethan Walker

Your squad is calling a push in Valorant. You hear “rotate left” but only get fragments through your teammates’ mics. Then someone types “your mic is cutting out again” in chat. That is the daily reality of gaming on a mediocre headset. I have been reviewing gaming headsets for our team at Fundex Games for … Read more

Finding the best gaming headphones under $50 used to mean settling for tinny sound, a creaky plastic shell, and a mic that made your squad mute you. After spending six weeks rotating eight budget headsets through marathon Apex, Warzone, and Baldur’s Gate 3 sessions, I can tell you the bar has moved. Today’s sub-$50 picks … Read more

Spending eight hours a day in a chair that fights your spine is a slow-motion disaster. I learned that the hard way during a brutal 2020 stretch of remote work, when a $40 generic office chair left me with lower-back pain that took months of physical therapy to undo. That experience kicked off years of … Read more

I spent the last two months putting eight of the most popular budget gaming mice through real gaming sessions. I played CS2, Valorant, and a few MMO titles for hours at a time, switching mice between matches to feel out differences in weight, click feel, and sensor consistency. After hundreds of hours of testing across … Read more

Finding the best gaming PCs for Fortnite used to mean building your own rig and praying nothing caught fire on the first boot. I have spent the last three months testing eight prebuilt desktops with real Fortnite matches, dropping into tilted zones, and chasing 240 FPS benchmarks so you don’t have to guess which machine … Read more

Sitting through a marathon gaming session on a bad chair is brutal. After three hours, your lower back aches, your shoulders hunch, and you’re shifting constantly to find any comfortable position. We’ve been there, and our team spent weeks testing dozens of chairs to find the best cheap chairs for gaming that actually deliver comfort … Read more

After testing dozens of NVMe drives in our gaming rigs over the past three months, I can tell you this: picking the best 1TB SSDs for gaming pc builds isn’t about chasing the highest sequential numbers anymore. Real gaming performance depends on random read speeds, thermal behavior, and firmware maturity. Is 1TB enough for a … Read more

Finding the best gaming chair under $250 used to mean settling for squeaky armrests and peeling faux leather. I tested eight popular models for 90 days, gaming through marathon sessions, working from home, and even letting my 6’2″ brother put them through their paces. The results surprised me. Today’s budget gaming chairs have closed the … Read more

Recording your best gaming moments shouldn’t cost you the win. After three months of testing capture cards and screen recording software across 12 different gaming rigs, our team found the ten best screen recording software for gaming options that balance quality, performance, and ease of use. Whether you’re a Twitch streamer chasing zero-lag gameplay, a … Read more

I spent three months testing shooting mats on a mix of PRS-style stages, CMP high-power matches, and weekend range trips with our competitive shooting club. Shooting mats for competition are not just a nice accessory; they directly affect your position stability, elbow and knee comfort during long strings of fire, and how quickly you can … Read more