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With OCZ’s new line of gaming hardware coming to fruition, the Alchemy Elixir keyboard has reached the market. Featuring low-profile keys, ten dedicated macro keys, and rubberized texture, we’re pitting it against two of today’s reigning gaming keyboards to see how they match up.

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Sony Computer Entertainment America’s Michael Shorrock today announced that SCEA is working with Neversoft, Konami, Activision, and Harmonix to ensure that their music peripherals will work with all instrument-based games.

Let’s put that into plain English: They want you to be able to buy one set of instruments instead of having three drumsets in your living room.

This is a very real problem. For the current generation of rhythm/karaoke games you basically have to commit to buying multiple guitars – since the Rock Band guitar won’t work with Guitar Hero. If you want to play co-op in Guitar Hero, you’re buying another guitar.

With the next generation of games coming out – Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2, the drum kits are almost full-size professional electronic drum kits. There’s no way anyone is going to want (or can afford) two of those drum kits in their game room.

This seems like a situation where SCEA had to step in, grab each kid by the scruff of his neck and say “STOP FIGHTING AND SHAKE HANDS RIGHT NOW”. Good for us, either way. Unfortunately, no word on similar concessions for Xbox users.

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Phoronix tests the OCZ Alchemy Elixir keyboard. We’ve got one in house and will have a review shortly!