Choosing the best joysticks, mice, keyboards, graphics tablets and gamepads: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
When you’re buying or upgrading a PC, it’s all to easy to overlook its peripherals. Doing so is a major mistake: with an outdated mouse or clunky keyboard, even the nippiest of new PCs can feel like a nightmare to use. Splashing out on some new peripherals can be a cheap way to breathe new…
Choosing the best role-playing games (RPGs) and adventure games: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
Traditional adventure games involve exploration, puzzle solving and logic skills. The adventure was one of the first genres of computer game invented, after the basic arcade stuff such as Pong, simply because at their simplest, they didn’t require any fancy graphics – just plain text. Today’s adventure and role-playing titles are a bit more sophisticated,…
Choosing the best football, tennis, cricket and other sports games: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
As a youngster, you may have dreamed of playing football in the Premiership, or walking onto the centre court at Wimbledon with the royals watching. Of course, the odds of reaching the pinnacle of a sporting career are roughly the same as those of becoming a supermodel – slim to anorexic. However, you can easily…
Choosing the best racing games, F1, rally and driving sims: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
Racing games are all about going really fast – virtually, that is. Which is quite therapeutic when, in the real world, even if you own a Ferrari, you probably spend half of your time on the road travelling at less than 20mph, stuck in the latest set of roadworks to spring up or the rush-hour…
Choosing the best RTS and turn-based strategy games: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
In crude terms, strategy games are the exact opposite to 3D action titles. This is a sphere of gaming in which cogitation is required, not reflexes, and decision-making skills win the day, not hand-eye coordination. There may still be blood and guts involved, but you’ll barely be able to make them out from your vantage…
Choosing the best 3D action games and shooters: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
By the broadest definition, action games are quite simply those which are action-packed. There’s a lot happening on screen and your awareness and reactions are constantly tested, with little pause for breath. Expect a lot of explosions, or a lot of blood – and quite possibly both. These are the games which draw the ire…
Choosing the best office suite: word processors, spreadsheets, database applications and more: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
One of the most common reasons for owning a computer – besides gaming – is for productivity. Whether you’re a student, a home user, a business user, or just an avid letter-writer, the chances are that the first thing you’ll install on a new computer is a productivity suite – more commonly known as an…
Choosing the best portable iPod, MP3 audio and video players: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
Buying a media player has become trickier now that other manufacturers have caught up with Apple’s innovations. While a few short years ago the only real choice was to buy one of Apple’s original iPods, the market is now flooded with a variety of devices from a range of brands – and it’s all too…
Choosing the best hard disk drives, external drives and storage: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
One of the most common types of PC component to be upgraded is its storage. Whether it’s adding more space for you films, music, and photos, or simply a way of boosting the overall performance of a seemingly sluggish system, there are a few key things you should know before you get out your credit…
Choosing the best optical drives – DVD, CD writers and Blu-ray: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
While some of the latest ultra-portable laptops dispense with any optical drive, a device that can read – and in may case, write – to optical discs including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW and Blu-ray is still a useful component, enabling users to rent the latest movie releases, as well as providing an easy way to install…