Using the same uber-macho color scheme as the Battle-Rig Gamer Desk, the Corner V1 Computer Desk looks more like a drum set for one of those Rock Band games, with its circular mini-shelves and arm rests. The Vision One isn’t all bravado. It brings the noise, literally.

Fully optimized for 2.1 speaker support, the Vision One offers space for two speakers and a woofer. What we really love about it is the designated spots to rest your arms as you click away. Hell, you could probably even practice your drum solo on here. — Andrew Dobrow

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The King of Gamer Mods, Ben Heck, has returned to his triumphant days of Atari hacking. Known in the past for this Atari portables and other gaming mods, such as this one-handed Xbox controller, Ben Heck is back with a brand new Atari portable, this time for the 2600.

Running off of 6 batteries, the new Atari portable now has paddle controls, which Heck’s past mods never included. I’m really liking that little wood paneling too. Nice addition. Now, to get back to Asteroids. — Andrew Dobrow

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This multi-functional furniture/personal workstation is a perfect piece of gear for a gamer’s home (compared to the best piece of head-to-head gaming system or this gaming system for quadriplegics). The Battle-Rig Pro allows you to sit in the center of the action, with all you need right around you.

The Battle-Rig provides plenty of space for all your equipment and you can even choose the color of the desk to match your decor. Even better, it doesn’t look like an automatic decapitation machine the First Person Pinball Furminator. — Andrew Dobrow

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Gamer-mod scientist Ben Hack is at it again, this time with a mod that slightly pains us. You might remember his mod in which he connected a PS2 controller into a PSP. In this venture, he strays slightly from the Sony gaming realm and takes the innards of a PS3 Sixaxis controller, and transplants it into the casing of a Xbox wireless controller.

It feels very odd seeing the Playstation controls and logo on a Xbox console controller. It actually pains our hearts in a way. But, if you are one of those people that prefers the feel of the Xbox winged controller, than playing your old Playstation could be made more comfortable for you. — Andrew Dobrow

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Some geek out there really doesn’t want us to buy an Xbox 360, and they aren’t afraid to throw it in our faces either. While one of the game store owners was distracted, over-zealous gamer Dustin Wilson took a white marker and wrote the words “Buy a Wii instead!” on the three Xbox display boxes in the window of the store.

The antic is an entry to the EvWiiWhere Challenge, a contest for Wii fans to show the word Wii spelled out in unconventional ways. The vandalism of the 360 box seems a little immature for our tastes. But who knows. Those Xbox boxes in question could be worth a lot more now. We’re sure Miyamoto is thrilled with these fanboy antics. — Andrew Dobrow

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When I play The Sims, I can’t help but feel a bit envious. Here they are, completely fictional characters with absolutely no care in the world. I envy them because they more often than not are in much better financial status than I am. The Sims Visa Card will just throw that fact in our faces even more blatantly.

Over at The Sims website you can vote for your favorite design. The winning design will have its own designated spot in the Visa family. If Visa really wants people to take notice, they’d have a cheat code feature like the one in The Sims, that instantly adds $50,000 to our bank accounts. And if we’re in some weird parallel universe and we’re actually being controlled by some overzealous gamer, than he should start kicking some ass in the cheat department for my character. — Andrew Dobrow

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Elder gamer website IStillPlayGames.com has a cool gallery of photos of people standing next to their Wii Mii characters. There’s also a few children thrown in as well. Byproducts of the elder gamers, we guess. — Andrew Dobrow

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Exactly what we need. Something else telling us how miserable we are. Would you ever play a game that, a shooter style Duke Nukem game nevertheless, that is supposed to be able to measure depression? The US National Institute of Mental Health conducted a study which concluded that depressed players get their gamer asses whooped more often than non-depressed players in games that test spatial memory due to the effects of a shrunken hippocampus.

To test their theory, scientists developed a game based on selected scenes from shoot ‘em up game, Duke Nukem. If you don’t remember this game, it’s one of those that entails navigating around a town and killing stuff. The patients are then familiarized with the map of the town, and then asked to find various landmarks in a spaced period of time. Depressed people found an average of 2.4 locations while the non-depressed found 3.8 locations. The score becoming increasingly worse as the depression deepened. One day, researchers hope to have the game measure a quantifiable level of depression. — Andrew Dobrow

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Being a gamer and not having great quality sound is like listening to the radio in a domed metal room. Sure you can hear it, but you have to strain to make out the details. Many people would suggest that surround sound speakers are the answer, but your typical model is clunky and expensive. Turtle Beach has released its Earforce X-52s, which take gaming to the next level without being overly costly and unconventionally designed. The headphones can be folded into a compact space, which might not sound like much on typical headphones, but is almost nonexistent on surround sound gaming muffs. They also look super comfortable. Perfect for those long nights of World of Warcraft. Dual sub-woofers insure that every breath or utterance from a surrounding creature is heard before the average player would know of any presence. Check them out at the Turtle Head site and own them for $80. — Andrew Dobrow

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The chill of winter is in the air and all of us gearheads need to be warm just like our fellow mortals. Sure…many of us spend most season’s inside on our computers anyway, but what about those dreaded trips to the outside? It’s a cold and dark place out there, man! So, if you wanna venture outside into the abyss, yet don’t want to lose any of your geek cred, these Gamer Scarves are a nice little accessory for your metrosexual side. How can you lose with a scarf featuring classics such as Space Invaders? Wait…don’t answer that. Made with 100% Merino wool, you’ll really feel the warmth, if not a little itching. But who needs to be comfortable when they look this good? — Andrew Dobrow

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