Ben Acevedo, Author at NETGEAR Blog Archive
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NETGEAR Armor Launches New Enhanced Features

By Ben Acevedo

Online threats are everywhere. With so much of our lives now on the cloud and Internet, the case is clear that every time you go online with any device, you have the possibility of exposing your data, your privacy, and your personal safety. Almost every home now has at least one IoT (Internet of Things) […]

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Cybersecurity Threats to Watch Out for This April

By Ben Acevedo

1. Pandemic phishing Cybercriminals are continuing to use the global COVID-19 pandemic as a way to push their phishing schemes. These attacks usually increase in volume when cases spike or vaccine information is announced. Their intent is to get victims to click on a malicious link or attachment or give up sensitive information disguised as […]

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GEN.G Fortnite Team visits the NETGEAR San Jose Office

By Ben Acevedo

Coming off a big win at TwitchCon for the Twitch Rivals Fortnite Tournament, NETGEAR and Nighthawk Pro Gaming hosted TINAARES, maddiesuunn and iCarleeFN from GEN.G at NETGEAR’s San Jose Office. The event was a Q/A session with the players, moderator Ben “ZarduBen” Acevedo and Gen.G General Manager Nathan Stanz. With questions from the NETGEAR audience […]

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5 Halloween Horrors You Can Play Now!

By Ben Acevedo

Halloween is approaching and the horror genre has great games to offer for multiplayer fun. Most online games have a Halloween Event that players can get exclusive holiday skins or loot in games like Neverwinter, Apex Legends, Borderlands 3, and Fortnite. In this post, we’re highlighting 5 games that will put the chills and thrills […]

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What is Cloud Gaming?

By Ben Acevedo

Cloud gaming is upon us, and with the recent announcements at E3, companies like Google, Microsoft and Nvidia are competing for the future of gaming, and it’s looking very interesting. What exactly is cloud gaming? Cloud gaming uses server farms instead of local computing power to render and process graphics and gameplay. This allows machines […]

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Spotlight: NPG Ambassador, Ally Hilliard

By Ben Acevedo

The eSports industry is huge, and growing each year. And according to a recent Nielsen eSports Fan Insights survey, 22% of eSports fans around the world are female. More and more women are making a career of professional gaming and streaming, and females currently make up about 35% of the streamer base on Twitch. I recently […]

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Meet the Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR300

By Ben Acevedo

The Nighthawk Pro Gaming team hit a home run with our flagship product, the award winning Nighthawk XR500 WiFi router, designed to provide the ultimate gaming experience. Then we followed it up with an even more powerful router for the most avid of gamers, the Nighthawk XR700. Our team talked to a lot of gamers. A lot […]

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