Joel Taveras is one of the founding members of DualShockers. He hails from New York City where he lives with his wife and two sons. During his tenure with the site, he's held every position from news ...

Astro recently released a new version of their flagship A50 wireless gaming headset. This model works with both PC and consoles, and even comes with a magnetic charging dock. It’s a solid headset ...

Hearing a car’s rumbling exhaust can be a blissful auditory experience—in person. Record that rev on your phone, and the sound is diminished to a tinny, hollow blip, a pathetic imitation of the real ...

Over the past couple of weeks, I've put Astro's latest A50 headset up against a wide variety of games including Friday the 13th, Apex Legends, Hunt: Showdown, and Insurgency: Sandstorm. Ultimately, ...

Astro has become almost a household name for gamers. Among few others, they’ve risen to the highest ranks of the peripheral world, commanding demo stations at stores around the USA. Over the last ...

Astro is by far one of my all time favourite gaming brands. Their gaming headsets are quite simply some of the best around and have even given pro-audio and audiophile grade headsets a run for their ...

When Skullcandy Inc. acquired ASTRO Gaming in 2011, fears surfaced inside the gaming community that ASTRO would cease to deliver the high benchmark they’d set with their A40 line of premium headphones ...

Astro’s new A50 touts a new charging station and better controls, but still doesn’t put out the audio you might expect from a $300 pair of headphones. There was a time—not too long ago, even—when the ...

At first glance, the Astro A50 Gen 5 headset doesn’t seem all that different from previous iterations of this trusted line of gamer-focused gear. Fortunately, outside of the iconic design, the latest ...

When it comes to gaming, few things infuriate me more than an enemy catching me off-guard. But there’s not much you can do to prevent that from happening if your audio gear sucks — and I’ve had enough ...

Astro Gaming doesn’t update its headset line often, but when they do, the refresh is worth noting. Last year, the company revamped its Astro A40 model with a Tournament Ready edition that improved the ...