INTRODUCTION

   If things go as they should and all game publishers manage to roll-out their latest PC titles as planned 2015 may just turn out to be a great year for gamers around the world. The list of PC games scheduled for release in 2015 is very long but some of them really stand out like Grand Theft Auto 5, The Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Knight, Battlefield Hardline, Call Of Duty 12, EVE Valkyrie, Mad Max, World of Warships, Star Wars Battlefront, Entropy, Just Cause 3, Dreadnought, Galactic Civilizations 3, HomeWorld Remastered and Carmageddon: Reincarnation because let’s face it, gamers have been waiting for them for quite some time now (HomeWorld Remastered, Carmageddon Reincarnation and Grand Theft Auto 5 especially for many years now). Unfortunately whereas titles like EVE Valkyrie require players to spend a nice amount of money on VR headsets like the Occulus Rift just to be able to play (unless this changes until launch that is - we hope it does) the rest require the usual gaming peripherals for the best possible experience. Headsets are particularly important when playing games and the latest Siberia Elite Prism virtual surround sound headset by SteelSeries should be all you've ever wanted and then some.

   SteelSeries is a gaming brand that leads the market in building peripherals with quality, innovation and purpose. The company’s passion has been the driving force behind many first-to-market innovations and technologies that continue to become the industry standard and have-to-have requirements of gamers. The global brand continues to support the growth of competitive gaming tournaments and electronic sports leagues through professional team sponsorships, partnerships and community support. The company surrounds itself with the passion and the commitment to being the best. It is with this mentality that SteelSeries chooses to partner with some of world’s most respected and recognized brands that work together to push the growth and evolution of the gaming industry into an even greater proposition.

   The Siberia Elite Prism is not entirely new since it's basically an upgrade over the excellent Siberia Elite SteelSeries released in late 2013 so once again we find the same design featuring a retractable microphone, suspension headband, very large foam cushions (although painted dark grey), dual control dials and colorshift illumination on the exterior of both earcups. SteelSeries however used a new USB sound card model and did improve the specifications of the headset so although the new 50mm drivers share the same exact frequency response of 16Hz-28KHz with 32Ohm impedance as the old ones their sensitivity has been moved up to 120dB something which we all welcome since that should result to better/easier driver response. However the uni-directional microphone is what SteelSeries has changed quite a bit compared to the original Siberia Elite since it's entirely new so although it features noise cancelling technology like is predecessor it now has a frequency response of 100Hz-10KHz (as opposed to the 75Hz-16KHz of the original) with impedance of 2.2kOhm (same as the original) and -44dB sensitivity (the original had -38dB). This is indeed a little strange since the new microphone seems to be a step down from the old one but SteelSeries never leaves anything to luck. Of course the real question is whether or not the new Siberia Elite Prism is better compared to its predecessor the original Siberia Elite so let's find out for ourselves.