Having fully embraced that I’m in the middle of a mid-life crisis that manifests explicitly as a need to buy excessive amounts of glowy RGB products for my desktop gaming setup, I’ve been quite excited to try Govee’s Gaming Pixel Light panels ever since they were revealed at CES 2025. I’m also a sucker for nostalgia, so the 8-bit-styled animations they can conjure up via an LED array also had an instant appeal.
Having tested both the larger, rectangular version and the square model (each sent over by Govee for review), I can tell you that they’re wildly impractical and could use some fine-tuning on the software side, but they are overall a pretty fun way to add some flair to your PC or console setup.