So you just purchased a new PC at Best Buy and the salesman assured you that it’s without a doubt the top of the line, fastest, best of the best PC money could buy. Naturally you buy it because, let’s be honest, who doesn’t want a top of the line best of the best PC? Now that you’ve taken the system home however, how do you actually know if it’s top of the line or not? The answer? Benchmarks.

While there are benchmarks that cover practically every since PC component along with the system as a whole, today we’ll be showing you the best CPU benchmarks we use here at Custom PC Review to specifically evaluate CPU [...]

For retro gamers who loved Nintendo’s re-release of the NES Classic last year, Nintendo is back again, this time with a re-release of the SNES Classic. Earlier this morning Nintendo of America’s Twitter let this bombshell out!

Super Mario World, Earthbound, Star Fox 2 + 18 more games? Now you’re playing with super power! #SNESClassic launches 9/29. pic.twitter.com/BPPGjpskPT

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) June 26, 2017

According to Nintendo, the SNES Classic will retail on September 29th for a retail price of $79.99 and it includes such classic games like:

Contra III: Alien Wars Donkey Kong [...]

Although Logitech’s wirelessly charging mousepad was the big reveal for Logitech at E3, Logitech also made a new announcement in their headset lineup with the new mid-range G433 gaming headset.

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The new Logitech G433 gaming headset is designed for those looking for a multi-purpose gaming headset that [...]

At E3 2017, LucidSound invited us to their suite to show off several new gaming headsets.

The LucidSound LS25 eSports Gaming Headset is the wired cousin of the wireless LucidSound LS30. Designed for eSports and competitive gaming, the LucidSound LS25 comes with ultra-soft pleather ear-cushions, 50mm neodymium drivers and dual noise microphones (uni-directional integrated microphone and boom microphone). Volume can be adjusted by simply twisting on the earcup. The LucidSound LS25 features a 3.5mm jack which is compatible with PCs, smartphones and major gaming consoles including the PS4, XBox One S, and Nintendo Switch.

There’s currently no release [...]

Ever since Disney re-imagined and popularized collectible figures that “interact” with their games, a number of major companies such as Activision, Nintendo, and even Lego have jumped on the bandwagon introducing their own interactive collectibles. While these companies’ have few games and characters based on relatively new brands and stories, Disney has a seemingly never ending repertoire of characters from the days of hand drawn Uncle Walt originals to a bunch of newly created characters including those from their new film, Inside Out.

At Disney’s booth at E3, Disney showcased a number of these new collectibles for their latest update to the Disney [...]

With the radically different Windows 10 arriving on machines later next month, change has been in the air for Seattle based Microsoft, who recently held a press conference at E3 2015.

At their press conference, Microsoft practically reinvented the struggling Xbox One, giving it a number of updates, both hardware and software, that were desperately needed when the system launched two years ago.

The biggest update to the Xbox One is backwards compatibility. It was revealed that an update will be coming just in time for Windows 10 which will allow gamers to play select Xbox 360 titles. About 100 or so games will be available by launch and customers will be able to [...]

Without a doubt, 2014 was a tough year for AMD. Although the company managed a 4% increase in revenue to $551 billion, the company reported a net loss of $403 million for the year thanks to a $364 million net loss reported in the 4th quarter.

As expected, AMD’s computing and graphics division is primarily to blame for the company’s troubles. Segment revenue here is down 15% sequentially and 16% from 2013. Seeing as AMD hasn’t made any significant CPU or GPU announcements for most of this year, this is not surprising. On the other hand, AMD’s enterprise, embedded and semi-custom division helped slow the bleed with annual revenue climbing 51% in [...]

It’s no secret that Nintendo’s Wii U has been a failure in this latest generation of console wars with even Nintendo calling their own product an unworthy successor to the Wii.

While there are many possible reasons for the failure of the new console, one of the more commonly cited reasons is inferior hardware incapable of delivering the same level of visual effects of its competitors. However, new reports are surfacing online suggesting that Nintendo may be tapping AMD for some hardware to level the playing field for the next generation.

Supporting this theory is a recent announcement by AMD SVP and CFO, Devinder Kumar, who announced at a technology [...]

Among the most popular introductions at this year’s CES was the Nvidia Project Shield, which is Nvidia’s newest Tegra 4 powered gaming console. This introduction is exciting in a number of ways. The first is that Nvidia is entering the gaming console market. Nvidia has been traditionally known for producing top tier graphics cards and mobile processors, so the move into mobile gaming seems like a logical step for the company. The second exciting thing about Project Shield is that it includes Nvidia’s newest Tegra 4 ARM processor.

Let’s talk a little about both of these exciting new introductions.

Tegra 4

So before we dive into [...]

Press Release

Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (“Mad Catz”) announced today the Kunai range of stereo gaming headsets being released under the Company’s TRITTON audio brand.

The Kunai headset is expected to be available this Holiday on the Wii U™ console from Nintendo®, the Nintendo 3DS™ handheld entertainment system, the PlayStation® Vita portable entertainment system, and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system from Sony.

Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. stated, “The release of the Kunai range expands our TRITTON gaming headsets to all major hand-held, console, and PC gaming [...]