Video games used to be an exclusively offline affair, especially since the Internet wasn't really a commercially-available reality until several years later. Then, we were introduced to online gaming, providing us with the opportunity to play with other people without having to leave our mother's basements. Today, we've gone several steps further with the rising popularity of live game streaming and you need to have the right hardware to do that.

When you are gaming on your console of choice, you might want to look into the recently launched AVerMedia Live Gamer Extreme. The external game capture card connects to your PC via USB 3.0 to provide uncompressed full HD 1080p video at 60 frames per second, all with "almost no latency" as it passes through to your monitor or TV. Does this take game recording and streaming to the extreme? Let's dig in and find out.