Das Keyboard X50Q Gaming Keyboard Review

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It’s hard to talk about high-end mechanical keyboards without mentioning Das. Known for their high-quality, understated boards, Das is shaking things up with its new gaming-focused X50Q, which can display all kinds of notifications using its per-key RGB lighting. The company bills the X50Q as the “first cloud-connected keyboard,” but is that just marketing talk or something that’s actually useful?

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IGN Happy Hour: Forza Horizon 4 Special

IGN’s Tristan Ogilvie and Luke Reilly sat down with Ben Penrose, Studio Art Director at Playground Games, to get his insight into the making of the studio’s most ambitious open world racing game yet, Forza Horizon 4. Over an hour long chat, Ben opened up about his team’s microscopic attention to detail, the pressures of setting a game in his own British backyard, crafting the special Halo racing event and why Playground Games is like the Traveling Wilburys of games development. Sort of. Grab it at the link below!

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Why Marvel’s Spider-Man’s PS4 Photo Mode Is So Great

Photo Modes have become a staple of the PlayStation 4’s exclusives library — and with a built in Share button on the controller, a staple of the console itself. None has been so bespoke — and creative — as the photo mode for Marvel’s Spider-Man.

Available Day 1 as part of a new patch, the photo mode has the standard customization options we’ve come to expect — focus changes, lighting adjustments, and filters. But Insomniac Games has taken the mode to a delightful new level, as seen in the gameplay of it above and the gallery below.

(Warning: There are some suit spoilers toward the end of the gallery — don’t click through the last three or four photos if you don’t want some of the suits before you play.)

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Mega Man 11 Demo Available Now for Switch

A demo for Mega Man 11 has just dropped for the Nintendo Switch, and is coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One tomorrow, September 7.

Announced through the official Mega Man Twitter account, a new trailer was released to coincide with the demo, introducing a new robot master for the game: Bounce Man. His stage is filled with balloon-like surfaces that the Blue Bomber can bounce off of and is generally filled with odd, colorful contraptions.

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