At last year’s LANcouver 2011, the Kingston HyperX Keyboard Hucking (Chucking) Challenge drew a big crowd that lined up for a chance to win a Kingston SSD. This year, we shortened the name, trimmed some keyboard cables, and made it even more difficult by introducing a little water hazard that messed a lot of “tossers” up in this year’s competition. …

LAN events always have some great non-gaming activities for everyone to take part in and LANcouver 2012 offered a few really great ones. One of the things we wanted to do was a PC building demonstration that had two people, with the help of a coach, rebuild their PCs into new cases. A case swap competition if you will. While …

The second panel of LANcouver 2012 took place bright and early. When I say bright and early, I mean 10AM on June 30, 2012. After all, this is a LAN party and chances are, people slept at their keyboards.

For the most important panel of the LANcouver University curriculum, Futurelooks enlisted the help of ASUS, NVIDIA, NCIX and ANTEC. In …

Although LANcouver 2012 has come and gone over the Canada Day long weekend, its affect on gamers and enthusiasts in Western Canada has been felt. As we sort through all our videos and pictures from the event, we are constantly reminded of the good that this event has done and part of that had to do with the panels that …

Thin and light is the name of the game. You no longer have to lug around a heavy laptop to get the full PC experience, thanks to the recent generation of Intel-powered ultrabooks. Today, we take a look at the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook that slots right into that market. The silver anodized aluminum body immediately speaks to the higher …

It’s been a while since I put a few elite overclocking DDR3 memory kits to work on any these pimped out Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge test systems. While overclocking the memory itself won’t give you any gains, overclocking the CPU at the same time is what allows you to use that bandwidth. You have to do both and …

Wireless keyboards and mice are still the most commonly used peripherals. However, wireless headsets have slowly become very popular with both PC and console gamers alike despite their increased cost over regular wired headsets. CORSAIR, better known world wide for their Dominator GT memory and Force GT SSDs, took a bold step in launching their Vengeance Gaming headsets last year. …

Before LANcouver 2011 last year, I didn’t even know that anyone was trying to resurrect the glory of the multi-day LAN event in the Vancouver, Canada area. But a chance encounter at the Memory Express Duke Nukem LAN changed all that for the better. It was there that I ran into Spencer Whitney, the man behind the LANcouver movement, and together, we …

There are a lot of great ATX mid-tower cases on the market today. The only real way to set yourself apart is to either have the best of a particular feature or a very unique feature. SilverStone has been one of the companies we can depend on to create unique case designs. The case we are looking at today is …