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What would your YouTube Channel be? TELL US & WIN!

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There are YouTube and Twitch channels out there bursting with video content to enjoy!

From amusing gameplay moments like an ultimate mid-air jet fighter sniper-hijacking to helpful guides for that particularly tricky boss in dark souls. There is soooo much awesome out there on the web thanks to the dedicated gamers that share it all :)

Playing games is pretty fun, and if you've dabbled in game capture you'll know just how much fun editing your clips can be as well!

Recording the gameplay can now be done in a number of ways. Those who are lucky enough to have a PC with a newer Nvidia graphics card can use the built-in Shadowplay to record. PS4/Xbox One console users now have recording options available too.

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SteelSeries Gorilla Gaming WINNER ANNOUNCED!

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What an AWESOME month of gaming that was!

Throughout July, if you got yourself any of our Gorilla Gaming Rigs you automatically received a SteelSeries Steelpad Qck Gaming Mouse Pad plus instantly went in the draw to win our totally awesome July MEGA SteelSeries Prize Pack!

Our pack consists of two epic pieces of gaming gear, first up – let's take a look at the keyboard!

SteelSeries Apex M800 Mechanical Keyboard

The tournament-grade SteelSeries Apex M800 is the world’s fastest and most programmable mechanical gaming keyboard. It gives you the quick response and personal control to master your favorite games.

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ASUS gaming Screenshot - Winner Announced!

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Over the last couple of weeks we asked to see a bit of what you're all playing so with the help of our friends at Asus we cooked up a MIGHTY GAMING SCREENSHOT COMPETITION!

Up for grabs we had the excellent Asus 24" Monitor ready to deliver bright crisp images to our winners eyes as they play their favourite game!

Thanks for all the awesome screenshots – certainly more than a few wallpaper worthy ones in there!

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It's SteelSeries July with Gorilla Gaming Rigs!

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It sure is chilly at the moment! Lucky for us July brings with it the latest in components for us to use in our Gaming PC and with a little overclock… things are feeling warm and toasty!

This month we welcome the return of our most Powerful Gaming PC – The Mighty Kong! Packing some of the most powerful components into the latest NZXT NOCTIS Chassis, with the brutal GTX TITAN X this rig is ready to throw out mind blowing frame rates and power for the beastly new 4K gamers.

Sporting an ASrock Fatal1ty X99 Motherboard with Crucial DDR4 Ram this version is our most versitile MK yet – we've extended the Power Supply to a massive 1200watts Platinum which allows for a second 12GB Asus Titan X to be added in SLi.

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Mighty Gaming Screenshot Competition with ASUS!

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Ahhhh the lost art of screenshots, Nvidia Shadowplay Game Capture has opened up a whole new world of sharing to us but sometimes that one sweet screenshot is worth a hundred hours of gameplay :)

Maybe you are the Master of Character Creation, perhaps you have crafted a mine so epic, so vast, so.. Wallpaper Worthy that it simply must be shared!

We would love to see a bit of what you're all playing so with the help of our friends at Asus we've cooked up a MIGHTY GAMING SCREENSHOT COMPETITION!

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Tt eSports with Gorilla Rigs this JUNE!

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It might be getting colder but ThermalTake are here to heat things up this June!

Get yourself a Mighty Gorilla Gaming Rig this month and you'll receive a BONUS White Ra eSports Gaming Mousepad + go into the draw to win our awesome eSports June Prize pack!

The Tt eSPORTS White-Ra Mouse Pad helps your gaming mouse glide smoothly. Cross-weave technology is employed to generate a synthetic fabric material surface which offers slick gliding while maximising stability and control. Plus, the rubber Base ensures Mouse Pad Stays in Place. The only thing moving over the mat is your surgically executed swipes of the mouse.

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30 Games in 60 Seconds - WATCH AND WIN!

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Batman: Arkham Knight is almost here!

We've turned on our banana signal and called in some help from friends at SilverStone, Gigabyte G1, Deepcool Gamer Storm, ThermalTake and Kingston HyperX to create a very special Gorilla Gaming Rig for one lucky monkey with the gaming skills needed to save Gotham this June!

The Arkham Ape Features SilverStones RV05 revolutionary 90 degree mounting system, an unlocked i5 quad core fitted with Gamer Storm Watercooling, Gigabytes cherry picked G1 Gaming Edition GTX 960 graphics card, Kingston HyperX Gaming Ram and powered by a massive ThermalTake DPS – this Gorilla Rig is ready to tear up the streets of Gotham!

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Windows 10 Gameplay Tests Begin!

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With a new Windows 10 operating system just around the corner we've begun testing to see just how good this is going to be for gamers like us, from what we've seen recently around DirectX 12 things are looking very promising – as below with the amazing tech demo.

but how well will our current games run?

Microsoft are certainly encouraging everyone to move to the new OS, if you've got yourself a Gorilla Gaming Rig you can sign up now for the windows 10 Upgrade offer and you'll be ready to make the move from the Windows 7 or 8 that is installed on your PC currently to Windows 10 when it releases – but before we do we've fired up the preview so we can all see what performance to expect!

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