A standard office mouse is built to be cheap, quiet and good enough for clicking on documents. A gaming mouse is built for precision and speed. The difference is real, but it matters a lot in some games and hardly at all in others. Sensor accuracy Gaming mice use optical sensors designed to track fast … Read more
Peripherals are everything you touch, see or hear while playing. They often matter more to your experience than a small upgrade inside the PC, and unlike components, you keep them when you change computers. The trick is upgrading in the order that brings the biggest gain. 1. The monitor The monitor is usually the most … Read more
A gaming headset has two jobs: let you hear what is happening in the game, including where it comes from, and let your friends hear you clearly. Comfort matters just as much, because you may wear it for hours. Wired or wireless? Wired headsets are cheaper for the same sound quality and never need charging. … Read more
PC VR offers the most detailed virtual reality experiences, from flight and racing simulators to Half-Life: Alyx. Choosing a headset is mostly about one decision: a standalone headset that can also connect to your PC, or a dedicated PC headset. The second decision is whether your graphics card can keep up. Standalone headsets that also … Read more
MMOs and MMO-style RPGs give you dozens of abilities, items and macros. An MMO mouse moves many of them from the keyboard to your thumb, so your left hand can stay on movement keys. It takes some getting used to, but for many players it changes how comfortable long raids feel. How an MMO mouse … Read more
In first-person shooters, your keyboard mostly handles movement: WASD, crouch, jump, reload and a few abilities. That makes a few features very important and most others irrelevant. The best FPS keyboard is the one that registers those keys quickly and consistently, and leaves room for your mouse. Size: smaller is usually better Many FPS players … Read more
Under $300 is the busiest part of the gaming monitor market, and the good news is that it now covers screens that were premium a few years ago. The choice mostly comes down to one trade-off: higher resolution or higher speed. 1440p or 1080p? At this budget you can usually get either: If your PC … Read more
The Logitech G933 Artemis Spectrum was one of Logitech’s flagship gaming headsets when it launched in 2016. It is no longer the current model, having been succeeded by the G935 and later wireless headsets, but it still turns up second-hand and on clearance, so it is worth knowing what it does well and where it … Read more
A factory reset erases everything on a Quest 2 and returns it to its out-of-the-box state. It is the right step before selling or giving the headset away, and a last resort when it freezes, will not update or keeps crashing. There are two ways to do it. Before you reset A reset deletes all … Read more
Fortnite does not exist as a virtual reality game, and Epic has never released a version for the Meta Quest store. You can still play it while wearing a Quest 2, though, as long as you accept that it will be the normal flat game shown on a large virtual screen rather than an immersive … Read more
