Nick Pino is a veteran technology and video game journalist based out in San Francisco, California. He’s been covering video games professionally since 2011, during which time he worked at Official Xbox Magazine as an editorial intern, before moving to @GAMER Magazine in December 2012. He joined TechRadar in 2014, and became the site’s Senior Editor of Home Entertainment in June 2016. In his stint in the world of video games and tech, he’s hosted podcasts and appeared in numerous videos and livestreams on YouTube for TechRadar, GamesRadar and other publications.
TV displays are getting slimmer and slimmer by the day. Although this means they’re more likely to fit in awkward spaces and cause anyone who’s visiting your home to gasp in amazement, it does mean their built-in speakers tend to be lacking. If you’re one of those people who admires the slim aesthetic of your…
Although it’s still early days for 2019, I can already tell that this year will be one of the best for TVs. I caught my first glimpse of this year’s futuristic flatscreens in early January at CES 2019 and walked away impressed with all the new tech Samsung, LG and Sony have cooked up for us later…
The Sony PlayStation 4 is an incredible console, and possibly even Sony’s greatest achievement to date. It wasn’t hard to top the PS3, a console that saw Sony loose the lead in the gaming space, and while the PS2 remains one of the greatest consoles of all-time, its games are hard to revisit. Should you find…
The Xbox One will never top the Xbox 360’s giant game library, the console delivered some incredible hits over its seven-year lifespan. I was lucky enough to be covering it from the day it launched, all the way through to the release of the Xbox Series X/S. From solid third-person shooters like Gears 5, to…
Working on TechRadar these last few years has been one of the greatest joys in my life. Full stop. I would’ve never guessed how much I enjoy writing about tech (I thought I wanted to work in games forever) but these past few years have shown me that tech is – and always has been…
@GAMER Magazine shuttered back in 2014 and while it never gained quite the same readership that TechRadar has now, it remains an absolute gem of a publication. (And I’m not just saying that because they were the first publication to offer me a full-time job!) From December 2012 until April 2014 I helped put out…
Over the years, I’ve freelanced for a half-dozen publications including OXM, GamesRadar, PC Gamer and Mac|Life. Here’s the best of what remains online from those ventures! NEED FOR SPEED: RIVALS REVIEW Need for Speed is what I like to call EA’s most well known “hot-potato” franchise. Every few years it jumps to a new…
Armed to the teeth with GoPros, drones, electric skateboards and dozens of other gadgets, Matt Swider and I headed to the heartland of America and, eventually, to the sanctified halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center for the world-renowned Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2018). Instead of taking the easy way out and flying there like…
The vast majority of the time, I’m the one doing the interviewing. I’ve had the great pleasure of talking shop with industry luminaries like Microsoft’s Mike Ybarra about VR on Xbox One X, Sony President COO Mike Fasulo about HDR support and musician/producer Wyclef Jean about the future of audio. Rarely am I the subject of…
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