Most performance mice, which gamers tend to use, are normally manufactured by one of two companies: Logitech or Razer. Both these companies are widely known in the gaming industry. However, many more manufacturers, such as Genius, are making their show in the performance gaming mouse market. The contender we have for review today is the Genius Ergo 555 Laser, a ‘Professional laser gaming mouse with OLED graphics effect’. Let’s see how it performs.

Read whole review: Genius Ergo 555

A much smaller round-up today, with a couple of motherboards, couple of GPUs and an interesting Ethernet over power lines review from TechPowerUp.

• Zalman CNPS9300AT by Pro-clockers @ 13:13 GMT

• NZXT Guardian 921 by DriverHeaven @ 13:19 GMT

• Gigabyte 9800GT by Overclockers Club @ 13:24 GMT

• Asus Maximus II Formula by RBmods @ 13:27 GMT
• Gigabyte MA78G-DS3H by Digit-Life @ 13:28 GMT

• Air Live HP-3000E 200Mbps Ethernet over Powerline Adapters by TechPowerUp @ 13:25 GMT

• nMedia HTPCKB Media Center Wireless Keyboard by Benchmark Reviews @ 13:22 GMT

Chris Taylor, President of Gas Powered games and creator of old school classic Total Annihilation, and recent hit title, Supreme Commander, has made his thoughts known on the current state of PC gaming, and surprisingly - as most developers seems to be trashing it - it's very positive.

Chris believes that PC gaming has just gone through a renaissance of sorts, with a direction change of sorts now that the hardware revolution of dedicated GPUs has begun to slow down.

Read more: Chris Taylor Comments on PC Gamer [more available]

Recently over at NGOHQ some clever dick managed to get PhysX running on an ATI 3850 card. However, it's now emerged that after further development, the guys at Hardspell have managed to get an nVIdia 9600GT running right alongside a 3850 card with the nVidia card handling the visuals and the ATI GPU taking care of the physics calculations.

Read more: nVIdia and ATI shacking up? [more available]

Internet Explorer 8 will be entering it's first phase of beta soon, and apparently it could give Firefox 3 a bit of a run for it's money. As we as supporting CSS 2.1 as well as allowing the use of all new HTML enhancements including <audio> and <video>.

Not only this, but significant security updates and built-in developer tools have many wondering whether previous Mozilla fans will be moving back to the big, blue browser.

Read more: IE8 to have bumper Feature List [more available]

In Jace Halls's "studio hopping" web show, a video of upcoming Gearbox title, Sci-Fi FPS, Colonial Marines. Written by Battlestar Galactica screen writers will be turning up on PC, PS3 and XboX 360 in 2009.

Read more: Aliens Colonial Marines Footage [more available]

In the past if you wanted to run dual GPUs on an Intel based motherboard, you'd have to go with ATI hardware, as nVidia have always made a big point of saying you had to go with their chipsets in order to run twin nVidia GPUs.

Read more: nVIdia to enable SLI on x58 [more available]

Ho, ho ho, aren't you lucky today? This must be the biggest round-up we've done to date. Plenty of peripherals, graphics cards and cases, with a couple of drives thrown in for good measure.

• Gigabyte Poseidon 310 by Techwarelabs @ 17:30 GMT
• NZXT Tempest by HardwareLogic @ 17:33 GMT
• Apevia X-Sniper G-Type Mid Tower by Think Computers @ 17:34 GMT

• ATP ToughDrive 4GB Camo USB Flash by AseLabs @ 17:29 GMT
• Vizo Orbiter and Voyager 3.5" by EliteBastards @ 17:33 GMT

• Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic by TweakTown @ 17:31 GMT
• Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB Toxic by The TechLounge @ 17:38 GMT

• NoiseBlocker MultiFrame Series Fans by DriverHeaven @ 17:32 GMT

• ECS GF8200A by Digit-Life @ 17:40 GMT

• Asus G70 by Bit-tech @ 17:31 GMT
• Belkin N1 Vision Wireless N Router by Benchmark Reviews @ 17:35 GMT
• Thecus N3200 NAS Device by Hi-TechReviews @ 17:37 GMT
• ASUS Eee PC 901 by Phoronix @ 17:39 GMT

• SilverStone RVM01B "Raven" by NinjaLane @ 17:35 GMT
• WolfKing Trooper MVP by Overclockers Club @ 17:36 GMT
• RAZER Piranha Gaming Communicator by Overclock 3D @ 17:39 GMT

• Antec Signature Series 850w by ClubOverclocker @ 17:37 GMT

EA have released new screenshots and trailer for their upcoming motion-board based skating title, "Skate." The game will debut on the Wii and DS this Autumn.

Read more: Wii Skate Trailer [more available]

For years water effects have come on leaps and bounds, and while it might "seem" more real, more often they are complicated moving textures that just seem, like real water; Bioshock was notorious for this. However, thanks to nVidia's new "PhysX on GPU" technology, this could be a thing of the past as their fluid physics allow for much more realistic liquid movements.

Read more: Nvidia Makes Fancy Water Effects [more available]