Feb 11, 2013

Cheaper than the official option? Check – by ten quid, or thereabouts. Wireless? Check. Sturdy? Check. Rumble? Check. Acknowledges the 21st century by including a built-in rechargeable battery? Check. Gioteck‘s GC-2 is already looking tastier than many third party PS3 controllers; but can it follow through on its promise? First and foremost, let’s...

Oct 22, 2012

I’m a mature grown-up now, and if you think otherwise you smell of poo. That’s why I sit closer to the TV than my mother would surely approve of when playing videogames and that, in turn, is why for a long time now I’ve had a designated Gaming Chair. This used to be a cheap, wonky, but perfectly serviceable office-style chair that swivelled...

Jun 28, 2012

Giotek is a UK firm producing third party gaming peripherals. They manufacture everything from controllers to chargers and we have two of their headsets to critique. One is specifically for the Xbox 360, whilst the other works with computers, the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Let’s look at the 360 only device first, the EX-03. The EX-03 is a wired headset for...

Jun 18, 2012

Controllers and gaming go together like toast and Marmite, Cameron and Clegg, and Pinky and Perky (some might argue that those last two examples are in fact repetition). We spend more time in contact with our controllers than with the actual consoles we covet so much. Yet these controllers are not always treated well by us. They run out of power in the middle of...

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...