Kingston HyperX Cloud

Better for PC gamers than console gamers

One of our top-performing gaming headsets, the Kingston HyperX Cloud II does a great job of perfectly balancing performance and price. This headset is...

If you're looking for the king of value gaming headsets, look no further than the HyperX Cloud Alpha. At $100, it's a steal.

The HyperX Cloud 2/Cloud II is a good gaming headset with a balanced sound and a casual design that ensures they aren't limited to indoor use. Once you remove th...

The Kingston HyperX Cloud II is a gaming headset that doubles as an unassuming pair of good-sounding, over-ear headphones.

Kingston doesn't have the same pedigree in the headset space as its competitors, but the HyperX Cloud is a winning device at a cheap price.

With its HyperX Cloud Alpha, Kingston wants to build on the success of its predecessors. Can a $100 gaming headset garner mass appeal with better-than-expected performance and solid build quality?

Generally speaking, I think most people are trusting people. That is, most people will take things at face value. Starting at birth, a child must trust their parents or their caregivers will provide for the basic necessities. Of course, this trust comes from the fact children are physically and mentally limited. But as each person grows up, this reliance or trust fades, especially if they experience something to harm this trust. More recently, I have been getting to know a new friend. While we have met for a few years already, I had not talked to her much. Randomly while talking, the topic of age came up during our conversation. I knew she was two years younger than me. Yet when I asked her about it, she kept asserting she was actually only one year younger than me. During the entire evening, I could not understand how this was possible. I even went to ask one of her friends, and she confirmed that our age difference was only one. Being the gullible person I am, I began to accept the possibility of her being only a year younger. It was not until after several days of them laughing at me did she finally tell me her actual age. From this, I learned two valuable lessons. For one, people enjoy trolling each other, especially when they find easy targets. Secondly, and more importantly, if you think you have a reliable source you will trust it, until it proves to be false or, as Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Kwan calls it, a “Javad”. And this is where we fall in with today’s review of the Kingston HyperX Cloud gaming headset. Kingston has a very good track record in producing excellent computer hardware and peripherals, as we have seen in the past, but they have never done any audio products. So when Kingston announced they were going to make a gaming headset, I thought they were just joking around. But since you are reading this review, you obviously know this is real. Can Kingston once again produce a winner out of the HyperX Cloud, or are they really just trolling us? Let us find out.