The ROG Strix Fusion 500 is a fantastic, comfortable headset that delivers a superlative listening experience, but some quirky design decisions and high price make it hard to recommend.

2018 kicks off the local eSports scene with the return of Mettlestate and their Valkyrie Challenge, as the cream of the ladies CS:GO crop gather for a showdown. This year, in conjunction with Asus’ Republic of Gamers, the Valkyrie Challenge is back with a vengeance. A vengeance with a cool price tag of R50 000 that is for two seasons of CS: GO action as female teams compete for the top spot.

The ASUS Zephyrus delivers some exceptional gaming performance in a chassis no thicker than an ultrabook. But it fails still at being a laptop, which limits its use cases severely.

The ASUS Strix GTX 1070 Ti makes a compelling arguement for itself with quiet and efficient cooling, a plethora of customisation options and performance to knock your socks off.

So you’re looking at buying a new monitor. It’s always an exciting time. Your monitor, whether hooked up to your super impressive PC or equally envy inducing console, is the connection between you and your favourite games. How it produces colours, what resolution its able to support, how well it handles input and all the special features it might ship with all factor into making your gaming experience that much better. So which ones do you look at? That is an easier question to answer than you might expect.

If you’re looking for a balanced and rounded set of cans and don’t put too much stock in the virtual surround sound, the Asus Strix Fusion 300 is a fantastic option

Are you a twitch FPS gamer looking for a gaming laptop with a display as fast as your reflexes? The ASUS ROG Chimera is the world's first gaming laptop with a 144Hz panel.

What’s one way to curb the worrying crowd-ghosting issue? Suspend your players by crane 60 metres in the air. You may ask "Why?" And the real answer is "Why not?"