As part of its CES 2022 announcements, HyperX announced a wireless version of its widely popular Cloud Alpha gaming headset. The peripheral maker highlighted its latest wireless headset can last hundreds of hours on a single charge.

The Cloud Alpha wireless gaming headphones take advantage of the updated Dual Chamber Technology and use HyperX’s 50mm drivers, allowing the headset to have a slimmer and lighter design, but it still offers the same sound and performance as its Wired counterpart. The device itself connects wireless via a USB dongle.

HyperX claims the Cloud Alpha wireless is the first wireless gaming headset with up to 300-hours battery life when fully charged – something we'll put to the test soon. An interesting claim given the average battery life for most wireless headsets falls in double-digits. Though Sennheiser’s $200 GSP 370 wireless gaming headset promises up to 100 hours of battery life on a single charge.

The HyperX Cloud Alpha wireless gaming headset will cost $199.99, with a release date slated for February.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Peacock TV has kicked off the new year with its latest season of The Office: Superfan Episodes, and as part of the celebrations, the platform has shared a brand new never-before-seen cold open from the show.

Season 4 of The Office: Superfan Episodes is now available on Peacock. To spread the news, the streaming platform took to Twitter with a previously unseen cold open for the show from the episode "Job Fair" that sees Dunder-Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott dealing with some unexpected toilet trouble.

Who says New Year's isn't a gift-giving holiday? @TheOfficeTV Season 4 Superfan episodes are available at midnight - including a cold open you've never seen before. pic.twitter.com/BbcEeP2rs4

— Peacock (@peacockTV) January 1, 2022

As can be seen in the clip above, the previously unseen sequence reveals that Scott managed to drop not only his phone into the toilet, but also his Bluetooth earpiece, wallet, tip calculator, and a range of other items too. While the other Dunder-Mifflin employees get a kick out of their misfortunate boss, Scott decides to take matters into his own hands by creating the world's first (don't quote me on that) mesh toilet guard.

The device, which takes the form of a tennis racket with a dish brush attached to it, looks about as suspect as it sounds. Unfortunately... or perhaps fortunately... the show's fanbase will never know whether or not the mesh toilet guard worked as intended, as the open ends before revealing it one way or the other.

As per Peacock, the latest season of The Office: Superfan Episodes features a range of other deleted scenes, bloopers, featurettes, and interviews. In addition to the cold open from "Job Fair", the season also includes new moments from other Season 4 episodes such as "Dinner Party", "Fun Run Parts 1 & 2", and "Goodbye, Toby Parts 1 & 2".

In other news from the show, Jim Halpert actor John Krasinski recently revealed that he once refused to shoot a scene of The Office. During an entry for a new book about the show called Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office, the actor said that he'd refused the scene as it depicted his character Jim cheating on his wife Pam (Jenna Fisher) during the show's eighth season.

“That’s the only time I remember putting my foot down..." says Krasinski in the book. "I remember saying things that I never thought I’d say before, like, ‘I’m not going to shoot it," he explained before stating that he took the issue to executive producer and director Greg Daniels.

Seasons 1-4 of The Office: Superfan Episodes can be streamed now from Peacock. Meanwhile, for more from the show, make sure to check out this article detailing how James Gandolfini was paid $3 million to not become the new boss in the show.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Peacock TV has kicked off the new year with its latest season of The Office: Superfan Episodes, and as part of the celebrations, the platform has shared a brand new never-before-seen cold open from the show.

Season 4 of The Office: Superfan Episodes is now available on Peacock. To spread the news, the streaming platform took to Twitter with a previously unseen cold open for the show from the episode "Job Fair" that sees Dunder-Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott dealing with some unexpected toilet trouble.

Who says New Year's isn't a gift-giving holiday? @TheOfficeTV Season 4 Superfan episodes are available at midnight - including a cold open you've never seen before. pic.twitter.com/BbcEeP2rs4

— Peacock (@peacockTV) January 1, 2022

As can be seen in the clip above, the previously unseen sequence reveals that Scott managed to drop not only his phone into the toilet, but also his Bluetooth earpiece, wallet, tip calculator, and a range of other items too. While the other Dunder-Mifflin employees get a kick out of their misfortunate boss, Scott decides to take matters into his own hands by creating the world's first (don't quote me on that) mesh toilet guard.

The device, which takes the form of a tennis racket with a dish brush attached to it, looks about as suspect as it sounds. Unfortunately... or perhaps fortunately... the show's fanbase will never know whether or not the mesh toilet guard worked as intended, as the open ends before revealing it one way or the other.

As per Peacock, the latest season of The Office: Superfan Episodes features a range of other deleted scenes, bloopers, featurettes, and interviews. In addition to the cold open from "Job Fair", the season also includes new moments from other Season 4 episodes such as "Dinner Party", "Fun Run Parts 1 & 2", and "Goodbye, Toby Parts 1 & 2".

In other news from the show, Jim Halpert actor John Krasinski recently revealed that he once refused to shoot a scene of The Office. During an entry for a new book about the show called Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office, the actor said that he'd refused the scene as it depicted his character Jim cheating on his wife Pam (Jenna Fisher) during the show's eighth season.

“That’s the only time I remember putting my foot down..." says Krasinski in the book. "I remember saying things that I never thought I’d say before, like, ‘I’m not going to shoot it," he explained before stating that he took the issue to executive producer and director Greg Daniels.

Seasons 1-4 of The Office: Superfan Episodes can be streamed now from Peacock. Meanwhile, for more from the show, make sure to check out this article detailing how James Gandolfini was paid $3 million to not become the new boss in the show.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Spider-Man No Way Home's villain crossover almost didn't make it into the movie's primary plot, as the producers initially set it aside as a mere post-credits scene.

According to The Wrap, the iconic villains of past Spider-Man installments, including Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin and Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus from the Tobey Maguire films, and Jamie Foxx's Electro from the Andrew Garfield-led Amazing Spider-Man 2, were not included in the original plans for the main plot of the Tom Holland Spider-Man sequel.

In fact, No Way Home's writers, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, revealed that the producers originally considered leaving the villains' appearance until the movie's post-credits scene. However, they swiftly u-turned on the idea as Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige posed an alternative suggestion for the cast of baddies to appear as part of the main plot.

"I don't know if it was Kevin [Feige's] idea, the idea of doing something with the other villains and teasing that at the very end [of the movie], I think in a tag was floated," McKenna recalled, thinking back on discussions during the movie's early story meetings. "We were coming up with different storylines that would just sort of write towards a tag like that."

McKenna and Sommers thrashed out story threads that could lead to such a villain teaser — with Kraven even being mentioned at one point — before Feige "blew everything open" with his suggestion. "I think it was Kevin who goes, 'Remember that idea with all the villains that we were talking about for a tag? That Sinister Six idea? Why don't we just do it in the movie?"

The writers admitted that they had frequently pitched the idea of Kraven the Hunter making his big-screen debut in the Spider-Man projects they had worked on, but had only faced rejections thus far. There may be a very good reason for that, as the classic Marvel villain is now set to appear in his own Kraven the Hunter spin-off film.

The upcoming Spider-Man spin-off is currently set for a January 2023 release, with Aaron Taylor Johnson starring as the titular baddie. It will be directed by J.C. Chandor with a script by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Richard Wenk. The Kraven the Hunter movie is one of several Spider-Man spin-offs heading to the big screen, including Morbius and Venom 3.

Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Spider-Man No Way Home's villain crossover almost didn't make it into the movie's primary plot, as the producers initially set it aside as a mere post-credits scene.

According to The Wrap, the iconic villains of past Spider-Man installments, including Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin and Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus from the Tobey Maguire films, and Jamie Foxx's Electro from the Andrew Garfield-led Amazing Spider-Man 2, were not included in the original plans for the main plot of the Tom Holland Spider-Man sequel.

In fact, No Way Home's writers, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, revealed that the producers originally considered leaving the villains' appearance until the movie's post-credits scene. However, they swiftly u-turned on the idea as Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige posed an alternative suggestion for the cast of baddies to appear as part of the main plot.

"I don't know if it was Kevin [Feige's] idea, the idea of doing something with the other villains and teasing that at the very end [of the movie], I think in a tag was floated," McKenna recalled, thinking back on discussions during the movie's early story meetings. "We were coming up with different storylines that would just sort of write towards a tag like that."

McKenna and Sommers thrashed out story threads that could lead to such a villain teaser — with Kraven even being mentioned at one point — before Feige "blew everything open" with his suggestion. "I think it was Kevin who goes, 'Remember that idea with all the villains that we were talking about for a tag? That Sinister Six idea? Why don't we just do it in the movie?"

The writers admitted that they had frequently pitched the idea of Kraven the Hunter making his big-screen debut in the Spider-Man projects they had worked on, but had only faced rejections thus far. There may be a very good reason for that, as the classic Marvel villain is now set to appear in his own Kraven the Hunter spin-off film.

The upcoming Spider-Man spin-off is currently set for a January 2023 release, with Aaron Taylor Johnson starring as the titular baddie. It will be directed by J.C. Chandor with a script by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Richard Wenk. The Kraven the Hunter movie is one of several Spider-Man spin-offs heading to the big screen, including Morbius and Venom 3.

Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Following weeks of rumors and speculations, Nvidia announced during its CES 2022 live stream a new high-end GPU: the RTX 3090 Ti.

While the company did not provide information on pricing or release date, The Verge notes that the RTX 3090 Ti will include 40 teraflops of GPU performance, making it roughly 11 percent faster than the previous RTX 3090, which featured 36 teraflops.

The Verge also notes that the RTX 3090 Ti will offer 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM – the same as the RTX 3090 GPU – though the RTX 3090 Ti will run faster at 21Gbps, compared to the RTX 3090 at 19.5Gbps.

Like other GPUs in the RTX series, the RTX 3090 Ti utilizes the Ampere architecture, and based on the specs confirmed above, this will serve as Nvidia's new flagship graphics card, replacing the previous flagship the RTX 3080 Ti, which launched in June 2021.

Alongside the announcement of the RTX 3090 Ti, Nvidia announced earlier in the stream a new entry-level GPU, the RTX 3050, which arrives on January 27 with a starting retail price of $269. Both GPUs join the RTX 30 family as the eighth and ninth GPUs released since Nvidia debuted the series in 2020 with the release of the RTX 3080.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Following weeks of rumors and speculations, Nvidia announced during its CES 2022 live stream a new high-end GPU the RTX 3090 Ti.

While the company did not provide information on pricing or release date, The Verge notes that the RTX 3090 Ti will include 40 teraflops of GPU performance, making it roughly 11 percent faster than the previous RTX 3090 which featured 36 teraflops.

The Verge also notes that the RTX 3090 Ti will offer 24GB of GDDR6X and offer the same amount of VRAM as the RTX 3090 GPU, which features 26GB of VRAM, though the RTX 3090 Ti will have faster VRAM running at 21Gbps, instead of the RTX 3090, which has the 26GB of VRAM running at 19.5Gbps.

Like other GPUs in the RTX series, the RTX 3090 Ti is running Ampere architecture, and based on the specs confirmed above, this will serve as Nvidia's new flagship graphics card, replacing the previous flagship the RTX 3080 Ti, which launched in June 2021.

Alongside the announcement of the RTX 3090 Ti, Nvidia announced earlier in the stream a new entry-level GPU, the RTX 3050, which arrives on January 27 with a starting retail price of $269. Both GPUs join the RTX 30 family as the eighth and ninth GPUs released since Nvidia debuted the series in 2020 with the release of the RTX 3080.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Nvidia has announced the latest GPU to join its RTX 30 line of desktop GPUs as part of its CES 2022 announcements. The RTX 3050 is the company's newest entry-level GPU and it'll arrive later this month.

The RTX 3050 is touted as a huge leap in terms of performance when stacked up against the company's aging GTX 1650 graphics card. The RTX 3050 features 8GB of GDDR6 memory, and like others in the RTX 30 family, it supports DLSS and hardware-accelerated ray tracing, allowing those to experience Nvidia's RTX tech at a more affordable price point.

The announcement comes following Nvidia's competitor, AMD, which announced a new entry-level Radeon RX 6000 series, the RX 6500 XT, a $199 graphics card aimed at playing the latest titles at the highest settings with a 1080p resolution.

In addition to a new entry-level GPU, Nvidia also announced on stream today a new high-end GPU the RTX 3090 Ti. While no information on release date or price were shared for the new flagship GPu, Nvidia said it will share more information on the RTX 3090 Ti next month.

Nvidia is slated to release the RTX 3050 on January 27 with the retail price starting at $269.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Nvidia has announced the latest GPU to join its RTX 30 line of desktop GPUs as part of its CES 2022 announcements. The RTX 3050 is the company's newest entry-level GPU and it'll arrive later this month.

The RTX 3050 is touted as a huge leap in terms of performance when stacked up against the company's aging GTX 1650 graphics card. The RTX 3050 features 8GB of GDDR6 memory, and like others in the RTX 30 family, it supports DLSS and hardware-accelerated ray tracing, allowing those to experience Nvidia's RTX tech at a more affordable price point.

The announcement comes following Nvidia's competitor, AMD, which announced a new entry-level Radeon RX 6000 series, the RX 6500 XT, a $199 graphics card aimed at playing the latest titles at the highest settings with a 1080p resolution.

In addition to a new entry-level GPU, Nvidia also announced on stream today a new high-end GPU the RTX 3090 Ti. While no information on release date or price were shared for the new flagship GPu, Nvidia said it will share more information on the RTX 3090 Ti next month.

Nvidia is slated to release the RTX 3050 on January 27 with the retail price starting at $269.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

Following a teaser on Twitter, AMD has announced a slew of new products in conjunction with CES 2022, which kicks off on Wednesday. This includes the seventh gaming desktop graphics card in its RX 6000 series, the RX 6500 XT, which releases later this month.

The RX 6500 XT features a 2.6Ghz game clock, with 16 compute units and ray accelerators, and an infinity cache of 16MB. Like the RX 6600 XT and RX 6600 graphics cards, AMD's latest GPU is marketed as a graphics card that can run the highest settings at a 1080p resolution.

AMD touts that the RX 6500 XT can perform up to 1.6 times better on the highest 1080p settings than Nvidia's GTX 1650 and its own RX 570 GPU (pictured below). Though, AMD did not share any data on how it stacks up to Nvidia's RTX 2060, which recently saw a re-release in an attempt to circumvent the supply strain issues surrounding the RTX 30 series, though even the RTX 2060 is still hard to find itself.

Like the other graphics cards in the Radeon RX 6000 family, the RX 6500 XT uses RDNA 2 technology, a graphical architecture that provides hardware-based ray tracing. RDNA 2 is also the same graphical architecture that the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles use, in addition to Valve's forthcoming portable gaming PC, the Steam Deck. Additionally, the GPU will also support FidelityFX Super Resolution, AMD's open-sourced supersampling tech that can boost image quality or performance in supported games.

The announcement comes at an interesting time as AMD's competitor, Nvidia, is slated to hold a GeForce Event today, where it is rumored Nvidia will unveil a new desktop GPU. Additionally, chipmaker Intel announced last year that it is entering the GPU market to take on both AMD and Nvidia, with the first iteration of Intel's Arc GPUs arriving sometime in Q1 of this year.

AMD is planning to release the RX 6500 XT on January 19, priced at $199.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.