Adafruit’s $2,000 bounty for an open source Kinect driver hack was only offered up late last week and already someone has allegedly delivered, said Adafruit’s Phillip Torrone in an email to us just now. This was inevitable. Microsoft, for its part, offered up the standard boilerplate last week in an email to CNET: “Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products,” a company spokesperson told CNET....

The SteelSeries Shift isn’t just a high quality gaming keyboard with programmable macros out the wazoo. Its real trick is accommodating specially-crafted keysets for games like WoW and Starcraft 2, transforming you into a wizard at any game you play. The basic idea is that every game is different, so every game has a different optimal keyboard layout. SteelSeries works with game designers (and the gamers who kick ass at the...

Corsair might only be known for their PC components—memory, SSDs, thumb drives and power supplies—but they’re branching into USB audio gaming headsets as well. It’s a natural progression, since their customers are gamers that want to optimize their setups. The price of the HS1 USB headset is quite reasonable: £70. Other competitive headsets, like the Logitech G35 and the Creative Fatal1ty headsets are sitting in the...