HP gets serious about gaming again with eye-popping Omen PCs

HP is ready to make a big splash in PC gaming again.

It's been almost a decade since HP snapped up Voodoo, the wild and wooly PC manufacturer that built some of the most powerful and odd-looking gaming PCs on the planet. Since then HP has gone through many transitions — including splitting into two companies — and buttoned down its gaming line into the powerful, yet austere Envy line.

The new HP Omen line of Windows 10 gaming laptops and desktops, which the company unveiled on Thursday, is anything but austere.

Unlike systems that might include gaming specs, but are actually multi-purpose machines, HP says the Omen line is designed exclusively for gamers. This marketing approach might remind one of Dell's Alienware line of gaming PCs (which Dell acquired in 2006). Read more...