Review

Pull up a chair, get comfortable and fill a bowl with your favourite snack, because just in time for the holiday season it’s family game night at the Best Buy Plug-In Blog, and you get to be a part of the fun as we play and review seven games from award-winning comics and tabletop game publisher IDW Games.

The M-Audio BX5 and the Yamaha HS5 studio monitors boast similar studio-level features and specs. They both pack a nice size : punch ratio. You can’t go wrong with either of these little guys. I took them both for a spin, put them head to head and jotted down my thoughts.

Eurocom has perfected the art of the professional gaming laptop. Laptops that both work hard and play hard, Eurocom returns with the fourth generation of its popular Shark laptop. With its ability to play most of today’s games on their highest settings, an outstanding keyboard and display and potential to upgrade components to grow it over time with your needs, this Shark attack won’t be so painful. 

  For all of the Protocol Drone fans out there, today I bring you 2 drone reviews in a single blog. Join me inside as I examine both the Protocol Manta Pro-6 4-Channel RC Quadcopter & the Protocol Dronium Quadcopter Drone with Camera. The Manta Pro-6 is small, fast, and has a sleek & stealthy design. The Dronium, alternatively, takes beautiful HD photos & video, and it flies like a dream. Which drone is better? There’s only one way to find out: Click on through!  

Perhaps no other game franchise has come to define the PlayStation experience more than Naughty Dog’s groundbreaking action-adventure series, Uncharted. Now you can relive the epic Uncharted trilogy—or play it for the very first time—in gorgeous high-definition with Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection on PlayStation 4.

Very few franchises are as recognizable or as debated as Star Wars. The first trilogy of films are considered some of the greatest epic fantasy sci-fi films of all time, the pre-trilogy not so much but is still loved by many. If you loved the original trilogy and have been looking for a game to take you back to that universe, then look no further as Star Wars Battlefront is here!

I’ve had a number of fitness trackers in my life over the past few years. My favourite was the FitBit Flex; simply, light, and did its job fairly well. The problem is that our demands on our fitness trackers have increased: Samsung fired the first shots in the smartphone war, with Microsoft and FitBit coming out swinging. Apple dropped their Apple Watch bomb earlier this year, outselling every other smartwatch before it…put together.   Garmin has been making some smart moves with their Vivosport line over the past year or so, and like many other tracker makers, they’ve stepped up their game with heart rate monitoring, releasing the aptly named Vivosmart HR. It’s a watch-like band with a heart rate tracker, a connected app and website, and it comes in at a reasonable price. Is it your next fitness tracker? Let’s find out.

I didn’t get into coffee until I was 28 years old, but I’m really making up for lost time. I’m such a fan that when the De’Longhi Dedica Pump Espresso machine and Burr Grinder showed up at my door for review, I felt like I was unwrapping a Christmas present. It’s been giving me the gift of great coffee every day since.

Samsung has tried and tried again to get it right with its smartwatches, having come to market with no less than six different iterations in about two years. All failed to really capitalize on what was then a wide open market looking for a trendsetter. The Gear S2 marks a turning point in both design philosophy and performance, making it the most complete wearable the company has made to this point.

You’re probably reading this headline and wondering what the heck a brain sensing headband is for… and why you’d need one. Muse is a device that promises not just to help you relax, but it gives you meaningful feedback and results on whether you are truly relaxed and calm. Just by wearing this space-age, Star Trek-looking device for a few minutes a day is supposed to help keep you calm. Can a headband really help relax your brain? Read the review to see the surprising experience I had with Muse.