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Gaming earbuds are pretty close to ordinary earbuds, with only a few exceptions. Because gaming earbuds tend to be made for two things. The first is to help make your games sound more immersive. The second thing is to bolster clarity, especially among headsets aimed at gamers who are playing multiplayer titles with microphones. In other words, the two most important factors for picking a …

Midrange headsets can escape a lot of the limits you see at the entry level. You can’t escape all of those limits entirely, but you can certainly see some core improvements across your entire feature set. That might include the quality of materials involved in the construction of the headset, the addition of new features, and so forth. That makes choosing midrange headsets much easier …

When you’re looking at controllers in the same general price range as an OEM controller, you usually can’t expect many added features. Alternative controllers might throw on a turbo button, or claim that their vibration feature is stronger than the original. But that’s about it. At least, most of the time. Because as gaming has become a more popular hobby, and competition among the industry …

The general idea of a keyboard-and-mouse combo is bringing PC-style controls to console gaming systems. Why? Well, there is a reason why game developers do not allow PC players to play alongside console players. There is a reason why popular games like Overwatch have to do game balance separately for the console version of the game vs. the PC version. That reason is because PC …

In a bunch of circumstances, Joy-Con controllers are perfectly respectable. They make a lot of sense if you have smaller hands. And since they add little bulk to the side of your console, they make sense if you’re going to be playing your Switch the portable mode. At least, sometimes. When you want to go wireless, or when you want to use features like NFC, …