Do most people care about a gaming mouse? Probably not. Would most people be interested in reading about this? Probably not. Either way, “high-performance” gaming hardware-makers NZXT have just today unleashed the Avatar gaming mouse fact sheet on my inbox.  Designed to provide “smooth fragging and accurate sniping” with an adjustable four-speed DPI switch, the Avatar may be the next best thing to diazepam and a bottle of Jolt Cola.

Sounds impressive, but how well does it really work in practice? We’ll find out… because that’s what we do. It’ll probably show up in a week, and I’ll tell you whether it’s worth the fluff or if it sucks digital dick. Read on for the full specs. Read more…

Someone is going to need an Xbox 360 on Air Force One.

In a particularly hard-hitting interview with presidential candidate Barack Obama, Entertainment Weekly asked the presumptive democratic nominee what was the last videogame he played.

“Pong … That should give you a sense of my age. I loved that game.”

Other similarly in-depth questions ranged through the gamut of presidential politics such as spousal remote control rights and what’s currently on his iPod.

Don’t ask.

When the same pop-culture questions were put to the presumptive republican presidential nominee John McCain there was no mention of videogames whatsoever. Probably because the closest he as ever got to a Nintendo DS is a sock puppet.

In a *conference call with the two presidential candidates regarding their videogame play, Obama and McCain were unusually candid with their level of experience. Read more…

Is any song of the Christmas season less relatable than “The Twelve Days of Christmas?” Since when does Christmas have 12 days? How wealthy would you have to be to afford gifts like 5 gold rings or 12 pipers piping?

Read more…

Have you had enough of First Person Shooters? It was such a dominant genre this year that it seemed to define what it meant to be “next-gen.” We’re not quite out of the woods yet, but 2008 promises to bring us a more diverse line-up. What games or concepts will characterize the industry as we move into the second generation proper? Read more…