Gaming

A hardware upstart is rethinking what the mouse on your desk can do – by splitting it in two and filling it with gamepad buttons. It's a clever bit of industrial design that hides interface elements in a familiar package.

Clever game fans have made an affordable, tactile plug-and-play system – a pressure-sensitive floor mat that mixes arcade-style rhythm-based titles with a broader library of more casual programs that focus on relaxed movement. Something for everyone.

Windows gaming handhelds are having a moment, as the form factor conveniently lets you enjoy your PC games away from your desk. Lenovo's already been cooking up solid options, but its latest concept may be the most compelling one yet for multitaskers.

You can start 2026 like it's 1990 with GameSir's Pocket Taco, a cute compact controller that transforms your phone into a handheld gaming device. It's a bold design move, considering how litigious the original Game Boy maker Nintendo is known to be.

The makers of a smart Rubik's Cube-like puzzle have upped the ante with their game technology with a special edition Harry Potter-themed chess board, complete with character pieces. But can AI help you learn how to play? You might be surprised.

We previewed the RedMagic 11 Pro last year, but with any technology it feels better to have a real-world, lived experience with it. And while this phone isn't an all-rounder, its gaming capabilities and insane battery life demonstrate its strengths.

There are many tools that offer to help us focus – but very few are designed to do this in just a minute. BrainBlink is built just for this, with 60-second games on a pocket-sized device featuring real buttons and a link to players across the globe.

Bringing Russian Roulette to tabletop games, these bullet-shaped metal dice shoot out of a cylinder modeled on a classic revolver to give every roll more drama than we thought possible. The makers say please don't aim the Bullet Dice at other players.

We spend way too long in front of screens, so a good desk chair matters. I'm 100% function over form – I'll take comfort over looks any day. It could be hand-crafted from unobtanium and unicorn pelts, but if it's not comfy, I'm out. Here's my review.

Valve's new hardware, the Steam Frame headset, is designed to make VR gaming a lot more accessible to folks who want to easily jump into their favorite titles, with some clever tech to beam high-res graphics from your PC.

Redmagic's 11 Pro features not one, but three cooling systems to keep temperatures low while you annihilate your foes in the most graphics-intensive games. One of those is an eye-catching industry first: liquid cooling that you can actually see.

This one's purely for competitive gamers and hardcore PC builders itching for weapons-grade hardware. Asus' new monitor manages an immense 720 Hz when you turn it down to 1080p. That's about as nuts as it gets in the world of OLED screens today.