Power, strong build and an added splash of style make the Asus G60J a gaming laptop worth paying top dollar for.

They may be extremely comfortable, but there are quite a few flaws in Creative’s Fatality branded gaming headphones.

Any serious gamer knows that their reputation is everything; they also know the best hardware often gives the playing performance required to stay at the top. The Digicor gaming keyboard features all the gaming functions you'll need to play at your peak.

Stylish and bursting with features, Polyview deserves to take the 17in LCD market by the horns and turn it upside down as it did with the CMV1515 (June 2003). Another display to boast the 16ms pixel response time, the fast rise and fall rate of the pixels in this display make it ideal for gaming, even when playing first person shooters or watching video.

RTS gaming for grown-ups.

The most successful franchise in gaming history has finally re-invented itself after stacks of great and not so great expansion packs that spawned a fanatically loyal gaming community.

It’s the most expensive laptop we’ve looked at yet. David Hollingworth ponders if you get the right amount of bang for your buck.

If you're looking for a computer geared for gaming, the Vitesse is it. If you think that a Pentium 4C rumbling at 3GHz with a massive 1GB of DDR400 RAM has a nice ring to it, its gamers'-poetry when you add in a RADEON 9800 PRO.

While the epithet 'multimedia PC' used to be bandied about to over-hype any PC in the mid-'90's that was capable of playing music, rudimentary video, and games, the descriptive was overused so much on sub-par PCs that the impact of any real multimedia capabilities was diminished in the wash of pretenders.

Welcome to the first zombie movie we’ve seen that’s actually any good. Left 4 Dead finally gets gaming away from the trigger-point mechanic: you have no idea if a dozen zombies are around the corner, or one, or none.

Another slice of addictive gaming pie from Nintendo – and this one will help you lose pounds too

Valve may have missed the point of episodic gaming, but this is one of the best value gaming packs ever released

Superb performance in one of the sturdiest and best-looking gaming laptops we’ve seen – the Alienware M17x is worth the expense.

Raw power and gaming prowess plus our a-listed monitor: this is a fantastic system, but the price is a deterrent.

Video and almost decent gaming at fantastic prices

Very fast for some applications, but poor gaming performance and strong competition reduces its appeal.

It's got an LED panel on the top, backlight colours, and enough functions to make WOW and Crysis players happy. An impressive gaming keyboard

Nvidia’s long-awaited 3D kit finally arrives and when it works, it’s every bit as good as we’d hoped it would be.

Movie and photo transfer capability, MP3 playback, bearable speakers… this is the best portable gaming machine ever

Disappointing gaming ability and a higher price than media-centre cards rule this one out of contention