Underground Turtle Races

Turtle Beach puts a screen on another screenless PC mainstay.

While the Stealth Pro II is imperfect, it’s hard to argue that it’s less than great. The ANC and battery life have experienced massive upgrades. It takes a bit to dial in, but if you do, there is so much here to enjoy that it’s certainly worth making its way to the top of your shopping list.

It's hard to say a $350 headset is worth it, but boy, does Turtle Beach get close.

IGN snootily turned down an offer to review the Nex Playground around its 2023 release. And why not? It’s a casual games console from a company with no cachet in the space – a colorful little cube whose primary input method is your own body, via an ultra-wide camera lens on the front of the system. And yet, like the Wii before it, this underestimated machine (scoffed by elite gaming media types everywhere!) managed to outsell Microsoft’s Xbox consoles over the 2025 holidays. Were we, the gaming media, wrong? So now, here I am as one of IGN’s child-having freelance writers, with a review of the