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Most gamers worth their salt would definitely want nothing but the very best hardware for their gaming needs, and I suppose this is a subconscious way of ensuring that should you fail to make that particular play or shot in the game itself, the blame can be shifted to the hardware – or rather, its lack of proficiency. Well, CyberpowerPC must have done plenty of soul searching to ensure that whoever brings home the Fang Taipan M2 gaming laptop will have no more excuse other than the lack of gaming talent whenever they do not make the cut.

The Fang Taipan M2 gaming laptop is a gaming laptop that comes in just one way: that is, your way. It can be customized for just about every buyer using the latest in-game technology, and depending on the reserves of “poison” (read: money) that you have, that will result in the kind of innards that the Fang Taipan M2 comes with. For starters, in terms of its GPU, you can choose from dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M in SLI mode or dual AMD Radeon HD 8970M in CrossFire mode. Not only that, the Fang Taipan M2 will also breeze along steadily thanks to the Intel Core i7-4930MX Extreme Edition CPU, where it is capable of supporting up to 32GBs of dual-channel, high-performance Kingston HyperX or Corsair Vengeance memory.

Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, USB 3.0 and e-SATA interfaces, where the lightning-fast Thunderbolt input will ensure that you get to enjoy the ultimate in connection speed, not to mention boasting rear and front-facing cameras. As for the keyboard itself, it is color-programmable and has responsive tactile feedback so that you get to enjoy enhanced gaming capability. Your eyes will be pleased to take full advantage of the Full HD 17.3″(16:9) LED-backlit display at 1920×1080 resolution, while your ears will enjoy a perfect sound setup thanks to an Onkyo speaker system that is supported by premium Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 audio technology. The starting price point for the Fang Taipan M2 would be $1,869 and the sky’s the limit.

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Do you remember growing up in the 1980s and the early 1990s? The Nintendo NES did take the world by storm, where it popularized the home videogame console genre, sending the Atari 2600 into the consumer electronics retirement home along the way. One thing about the NES was its library of games that definitely appealed to a wide range of gamers, and it opened up the imaginations of millions of kids, too. When the SNES arrived on the scene to succeed where the NES left off, Sega’s Genesis has delivered 16-bit gaming goodness for quite some time already, and with the $54.99 Genesis Arcade Ultimate Portable Console, you can roll back the years by enjoying 80 pre-loaded games right out of the box.

The Genesis Arcade Ultimate Portable Console comes with TV-Out capability, not to mention an internal battery that delivers anywhere from 4 to 6 hours of gameplay on a full charge. This means you can just tote around this little puppy without worrying about removing those mint looking carts from your video game collection at home. Some of the games include Altered Beast, the Golden Axe trilogy, and Sonic the Hedgehog I and II, just to mention a few. Games will be played off the SD memory card, and you can once again settle the score with your mate over a round of Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition or Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers.
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Childhood memories do seem to be the ones that stick to one’s mind the most, don’t you think so? For those of you who grew up during the 1980s, I am quite sure that your soirees with the NES as well as classic PC games are deeply entrenched into your consciousness, even as you attempt to make something out of the rat race you are in right now. Well, let ThinkGeek step in to save the day by giving you the break in the form of the Nano Arcade Pocket Genesis Consoles, where depending on which model you pick, they will retail anywhere from $12.99 to $19.99.

In a nutshell, the Nano Arcade Pocket Genesis Consoles is a miniature arcade joystick that looks like a child’s toy, or even one that does not work but instead is disguised as a candy dispenser, but it offers far more than what meets the eye. All you need to do is plug and play into your TV, and you are good to go. Each of the Nano Arcade Pocket Genesis Consoles come with 10 pre-loaded games, making this a one time investment. It runs on a single AAA battery, and will feature five classic SEGA games with five bonus games thrown into the mix as well – namely, Virtua Fighter 2, Shinobi III, Golden Axe, Golden Axe III, Alien Storm, Snake, Spider, Bottle Tops, Race, Bomber, and Hexagons.
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If there ever was an oxymoron, a gaming notebook would fit the mould in my books. After all, if you want a lean, mean, gaming machine, a souped up desktop would work to your advantage a whole lot more than a notebook which has its innards pimped out to resemble the performance of a gaming desktop. I know, there has been some notable standouts in the world of gaming notebooks in the past, but lugging those bad boys around can be hazardous to your health, especially when you do not want to dislocate your shoulder after a long day on the showfloor with a monster of a gaming notebook in your backpack. Enter Digital Storm’s VELOCE gaming notebook that intends to shatter conventional views about it.

For starters, the VELOCE gaming notebook is a 13.3” slim machine which definitely has looks that betrays its performance. Most folks might think of the VELOCE to be an ordinary working machine, but despite its 4.6 pound chassis (battery included) that measures a mere 1.26” thin, it packs more than enough graphical and gaming firepower underneath the hood to take you and a bunch of other naysayers aback.

The VELOCE holds the distinction of being the first Haswell powered slim gaming notebook that comes with a Full HD resolution display that will certainly not come up short when it wants to show off stunning visuals. Depending on the hardware configuration of your choice, the VELOCE gaming notebook would retail from $1,535 upwards, and runs on an Intel Core i7 4800MQ processor, NVIDIA’s GTX 765M graphics card, carries 8GB RAM, and a full high-resolution HD screen (1920×1080) 13.3″ display as mentioned earlier. There is also enough room to stash a couple of drives (mSATA & 2.5”) in a RAID configuration, while connectivity options include a dedicated internal network port, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, HDMI 1.4, VGA video out ports and Bluetooth. Are your hands itching to wrap around the VELOCE gaming notebook? It will be available from July 17th onwards.

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I am not quite sure about you, but personally speaking, any gamer worth his or her salt who indulges in beat ‘em ups as well as shoot ‘em ups would definitely find that in-game controls by an old school joystick beats using the traditional video game controller with its D-Pad any time of the day. Remember those old school arcades that you used to patronize when you were a wee lad? Street Fighter II as well as Mortal Kombat played in the arcades had a different “feel” compared to the console ports (SNES and Sega Genesis), as you whipped out those shoryukens and fatalities with eased. Hence, it is nice to see companies like Genius continue to keep the arcade stick’s flag flying high with their latest release, the aptly named Genius Arcade F-1000 Stick.

The Genius Arcade F-1000 Stick comes across as an arcade-style controller for two platforms – PCs as well as the Sony PlayStation 3. In a nutshell, the Genius Arcade F-1000 Stick will deliver professional level arcade-control of the latest games to gamers, right smack in their living room. It boasts of an arcade-style 8-button layout, and will be accompanied by a 4-axis ball-handled joystick so that you get to enjoy a whole lot more precise control compared to what an arcade layout offers. Hopefully, this set up will be able to help your gaming go to the next level.

Other than that, there are also the Select and Start buttons, which will come with 13 buttons, including a Turbo button (old school gamers will definitely be able to remember the Turbo button, it is the lazy man’s way of keeping the “fire” button pressed rapidly simply by holding it down), where a dozen of the buttons will correspond to buttons on a standard Playstation 3 controller, carrying the exact same markings to boot, so that no confusion will arise. The $59.99 Genius Arcade F-1000 Stick would definitely make life easier for gamers to make that jump from a standard Playstation 3 controller to an arcade stick.

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