Ethan Walker

I spent the last three months rotating between eight different gaming desks in my home office, and I learned something quickly: a great gaming desk makes the rest of your setup disappear. You stop noticing the cables, the wobble, the cramped keyboard space. You just play. After logging roughly 400 hours of work and gaming … Read more

When I first started writing about gaming networks, I assumed the firewall built into my ISP router was enough. Then a neighbor’s compromised IoT device tried to scan my network at 3 AM, and my entire CS2 match rubber-banded into oblivion. That’s the moment I started testing dedicated hardware firewalls for gaming. Our team spent … Read more

Building a gaming PC on a tight budget used to mean settling for sluggish frame rates and endless stuttering in modern titles. After spending the last few months testing budget processors with mid-range GPUs in 1080p and 1440p scenarios, I can tell you the best cpus for gaming under $200 in are finally strong enough … Read more

I remember hauling my laptop between classes, the dorm, and coffee shops during my college years. The one that survived four years was the one that handled both my engineering coursework and late-night sessions with friends. That balance is exactly what makes a great student gaming laptop: real gaming power without sacrificing the portability and … Read more

If you want the short answer: the GIGABYTE RTX 5080 Gaming OC is the strongest high-end GPU our team tested this year, and the XFX Mercury RX 9070 XT is the best value. The Nvidia RTX 5090 technically sits above the 5080, but the RTX 5080 hits the sweet spot of raw 4K muscle, DLSS … Read more

If you run two or more computers and want to share a single keyboard, mouse, and DisplayPort monitor, the best KVM switch with DisplayPort is the cleanest way to do it without crawling behind your desk to swap cables every time. After three months of testing ten models in our shop — including 4K@144Hz gaming … Read more

The best laptops for video editing and gaming in combine a multi-core CPU (Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen AI, or Apple M5), a discrete RTX 50-series or Apple GPU, at least 32GB of RAM, fast NVMe SSD storage, and a color-accurate OLED or mini-LED display. We tested 10 models side by side and the ASUS … Read more

Most GPU roundups treat video editing and gaming like two separate hobbies. I built my editing rig, then later wanted to game on it – and quickly realized that a card great at Premiere Pro exports was mediocre at Cyberpunk 2077, while my gamer friends’ cards choked on Resolve timelines. That gap is exactly why … Read more

Gaming headsets used to mean a bulky over-ear rig with a long boom mic. That era is ending. I spent the last few months swapping my over-ear headset for true-wireless gaming earbuds on PC, PS5, Steam Deck, and my Switch, and the right pair honestly holds its own against dedicated gaming headsets, especially when latency … Read more

If you want deep, rumbly explosions without losing the footsteps in your favorite FPS, the Audeze Maxwell 2 with planar magnetic drivers delivers distortion-free sub-bass that audiophile reviewers consistently call out as the cleanest low-end in a wireless gaming headset in . But the Maxwell 2 isn’t the only option worth your money. Our team … Read more