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Get used to seeing this brand in place of HP’s on gaming products moving forward. | Image: HP HP’s branding is missing on its new gaming laptops (and gaming monitors) announced at CES 2026 – HP-owned HyperX has gotten a big promotion in its place. This swap is the biggest aesthetic change in the Omen […]
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Each model’s housing can be replaced with a different color if you’re not digging black. | Image: HP The next generation of HyperX’s Origins wired keyboards debuted at CES 2026, and the company has focused on adding more performance and customization. For example, its new Origins 2 and Origins 2 Pro are both 65-percent options
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The MSI dragon logo has been slayed. And by that I mean it’s now small and tucked into the corner. MSI is announcing a new Stealth 16 AI Plus gaming laptop for CES 2026. Borrowing a little from its business-class brethren, the new Stealth has a thinner and lighter design, features a larger trackpad, and
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That lid logo is a choice. Among HP’s many announcements for CES, its biggest overall change is for its gaming division. HP’s Omen line of gaming laptops, monitors, and desktops are dropping the HP name entirely and instead will henceforth be branded as HyperX. The HP Omen 16 Max laptop becomes the HyperX Omen 16
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Bring on the big haptics. Acer is announcing a selection of new laptops for CES 2026: small refreshes across its Swift lines and a few Nitro and Predator gaming laptops. But there’s nothing small about the haptic trackpad on the new Acer Swift 16 AI, which Acer claims is the world’s largest haptic one. Big
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I held this beast a year ago, and we haven’t heard a peep from Acer since. Acer made a big splash at CES 2025 with the announcement of its surfboard-sized Nitro Blaze 11 gaming handheld, but its targeted second-quarter release came and went long ago. There’s been no word of the chunky 11-inch Blaze or
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Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong, took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also given the “Best Game You Suck At” award, which, I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not. Given the relentless fawning over Silksong since its release in
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GOG is splitting from CD Projekt, the game company that launched the preservation-focused PC gaming marketplace in 2008. In an update on Monday, GOG announced that its co-founder, Michał Kiciński, has acquired the digital storefront and its online gaming platform GOG Galaxy from CD Projekt – which he also co-founded – for $25.2 million. The
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After announcing and teasing its design well over a year ago, Epilogue’s new SN Operator will finally be available for preorder starting tomorrow. Like the company’s GB Operator that debuted in early 2021, the SN Operator is a standalone USB cartridge slot that lets you play and archive old Nintendo console games on PCs, Macs,
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LG unveiled a whole new line of gaming monitors ahead of CES on Friday. The UltraGear evo line are all high-end monitors covering a range of technologies, but united by 5K resolution and AI upscaling. The three flagships under the new branding are the 39GX950B, the 27GM950B, and the 52G930B. The first number in the
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