Jun 30, 2011

While you’re wondering how to pronounce HF-2 (“Is it HF-HF or HFF?”), I suggest you take a look at what I made of the HF-1. The two models are largely identical, the main differences being firmware related. For those of you who can’t be bothered to click the link – that’ll be all of you, I imagine – a brief summary of most of the...

May 6, 2011

Sharkoon have geared themselves up to wade into the murky waters of mid-range gaming headsets with two new bits of kit, the X-Tatic SX (for the 360 and PC) at around £40, and the X-Tatic SP (for PS3, 360 and PC) weighing in at ten quid more. Truth is there are tons of mid-priced headsets on the market, and each has something going for it, so let’s have a look...

May 5, 2011

Is Sharkoon’s X-Tatic SP a PS3 headset, an Xbox 360 headset, or a PC headset? The answer is ‘yes’ once, twice, and thrice. Is it, perhaps, a Wii headset as well? The answer there is: er, sort of. The X-Tatic SP screams ‘luxury’ in your face before you even rip it eagerly out of the packaging, peeking cheekily at you from behind a...

Apr 12, 2011

Gioteck are an award winning UK company who specialise in peripherals for gamers and have released a number of headsets for the PS3 in the last few years. This latest headset, the EX-02s has many improvements over its predecessor the EX-01, including noise cancellation, clearer voice chat, better battery life and a sleeker, sexier new look. The first thing that...

Mar 18, 2011

As anybody who owns all three machines knows, Sony’s PS3 DualShock – while a perfectly good joypad – is a few small steps behind the Xbox 360 and Wii controllers in terms of precision. This is only really noticeable when playing FPS games, and as such, various companies offer FPS-specific alternatives. Joe’s already given you the lowdown on the...

Mar 11, 2011

There’s only one reason a gamer would have for picking up one of the many throat mics available for the 360, and that’s because they want to pretend they’re in the army. Unless they haven’t got a head on which to rest a regular microphone/headphone set on, but I’ll bet my left buttock these people don’t exist. Gioteck enter the fray with the TX-1, a...