About Darren
Darren Price
Consumer & Gaming Writer - Australia
Darren 'VicBStard' Price has been playing video-games for nearly 40 years and writing about them for the last ten. Darren hates sport, but loves sports video games - which he puts down to a mixture of being annoyingly contrary and extremely lazy. While he is completely tone deaf, he considers Rock Band and Guitar Hero to be his guilty pleasures. A geek from way back, Darren builds his own computers, collects comic books, owns several lightsabers and is a sucker for video-gaming merchandise. Since 2012 he has lived in Sydney where he writes reviews and reports back on the local gaming scene.
Stories by Darren
Theme park simulator Park Beyond opens its gates in June
3 days ago
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gaming
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preview
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console gaming
Bandai Namco Europe and Limbic Entertainment have announced that Park Beyond will be released on 16th June, with pre-orders now available.
Hands-on review: SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7 Wireless headset
4 days ago
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gaming
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reviews
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wireless devices
SteelSeries sent over one of its Arctis Nova 7 Wireless headsets to test out. I tried it out, and here's what I thought.
Hands-on review: HTC Vive Wireless Adapter and Vive Pro 2 VR headset
4 days ago
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gaming
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reviews
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vr
Techday's Darren Price ditches the cable with the HTC Vive Pro 2 virtual reality headset and the Vive Wireless Adapter.
Game preview: Redfall
Last week
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gaming
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reviews
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bethesda
Bethesda ANZ recently invited Techday’s Darren Price to a media-only preview session of Arkane Austin’s upcoming vampire shooter, Redfall.
Hands-on review: Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 Pro Interactive Pen Display
Last week
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gaming
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testing
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reviews
Wacom sent over one of its Cintiq Pro 27 Pro Interactive Pen Displays to test out. I tried it out, and here's what I thought.
Early access impressions: Kerbal Space Program 2 (PC)
Last month
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reviews
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space
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pc gaming
Kerbal Space Program's developers gave me early access to its incoming sequel and a chance to test it out: here are my first impressions.
Hands-on review: Unplugged: Air Guitar (PlayStation VR 2)
Last month
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gaming
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reviews
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guitar hero
Developer Anotherway scratches that Guitar Hero itch with its PlayStation VR2 launch title, Unplugged: Air Guitar.
Hands-on review: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Tue, 28th Feb 2023
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gaming
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reviews
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amd
AMD sent over one of its Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards to test out. I tried it out, and here's what I thought.
Hands-on review: Hyper X Cloud Stinger 2 Wireless
Thu, 23rd Feb 2023
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gaming
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reviews
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headset
Hyper X sent over one of its Cloud Stinger 2 wireless headsets to test out. I tried it out, and here's what I thought.
Hands-on preview: HTC VIVE XR Elite
Fri, 17th Feb 2023
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gaming
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reviews
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vr
In advance of the VIVE XR Elite's launch, HTC invited Techday to try out its new headset.
Game review: Deliver Us Mars (PC)
Wed, 15th Feb 2023
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gaming
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reviews
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game review
The follow-up to 2018’s Deliver Us The Moon, Deliver Us Mars is more of the same sci-fi exploration and puzzle solving, this time on the red planet.
Hands-on review: Brother ADS-4700W Wireless Desktop Document Scanner
Wed, 15th Feb 2023
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
Brother sent over its compact ADS-4700W wireless desktop document scanner to test out. I tried it out, and here's what I thought.
Hands-on review: Corsair Katar Elite wireless mouse
Fri, 20th Jan 2023
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
Corsair sent over one of its Katar Elite wireless mice to test out. I tried it out, and here's what I thought.
Hands-on review: Philips 65” 9500 series TV
Thu, 15th Dec 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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hd
Philips sent over their huge 65” 65PML9506/79 9500 series mini-LED Android TV for me to take a look at.
Game review: Marvel’s Midnight Suns (PC)
Thu, 1st Dec 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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2k games
Firaxis, master of the turn-based strategy game, refocuses its efforts away from civilisations and alien invasions and instead towards the Marvel Universe with Marvel’s Midnight Suns.
Hands-on review: Kingston 2TB NV2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD
Fri, 18th Nov 2022
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storage
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gaming
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reviews
Kingston’s NV2 is a fast PCIe 4.0 NVMe (non-volatile memory express) M.2 solid-state data storage drive. It is primarily intended for laptops and small form-factor PCs.
Hands-on review: Asus CM3 Chromebook
Mon, 14th Nov 2022
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gaming
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microsoft
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reviews
Does the Asus 10.5-inch CM3 Chromebook offer a viable alternative to a Windows notebook? TechDay’s Darren Price finds out.
Hands-on review: Kobo Clara 2E eReader
Fri, 11th Nov 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
I’ve never used an eReader before. I’m old school and prefer paper books, hardbacks if possible. But I was keen to see if the Kobo Clara 2E would sway me.
Game preview: The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me (PC)
Tue, 1st Nov 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
The Devil in Me is the fourth title in The Dark Pictures Anthology. The series of games are presented in a manner very similar to that of a TV show
Hands-on review: Poly Voyager 4320 UC headset
Thu, 27th Oct 2022
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reviews
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gaming
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technology gifts
The headset is made from black plastic with a flexible metal headband, which can extend to fit. Even when extended, the headband feels very robust.
Hands-on review: Intel 13th Generation “Raptor Lake” Core i9-13900K CPU
Tue, 25th Oct 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
Boasting 24 cores and 32 threads with a maximum boost clock of 5.80 GHz, does this new processor have the chops across productivity, creative, and gaming applications? We take a look.
Game review: No Man’s Sky (Nintendo Switch)
Fri, 21st Oct 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
Players control an unnamed explorer who awakens on an alien planet near a damaged starship in need of repairs and refuelling.
Hands-on review: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 9 7950X
Thu, 20th Oct 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
AMD has unleashed its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs based on the company’s 5nm Zen 4 architecture. We were sent a Ryzen 7 7700X and a Ryzen 9 7950X to test.
Game review: Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (PC)
Thu, 20th Oct 2022
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gaming
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reviews
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technology gifts
At long last PC gamers get to join Nathan Drake and friends with Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection.