Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom's Guide, overseeing the site's coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of science and technology.
After earning a B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, Marshall started his journalism career at The Escapist as a news writer and game reviewer. Since then, he has covered a variety of topics for Tom’s Guide, including security, streaming and productivity.
Over the past decade, Marshall has helped establish Tom’s Guide as a top destination for gaming hardware reviews. After launching the site’s very first buying guide, which was about gaming mice, he branched off into keyboards, headsets, monitors, desktops, laptops and gaming consoles. So far, he has covered the launch of the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, as well as the flagship games for each system.
Marshall is also a veteran of tech industry trade shows, having covered CES, E3, IFA, GDC, NYCC, PAX East, PAX West, SXSW and a variety of smaller events.
After hours, you can find him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi. When he’s not reviewing games for work, he prefers to play RPGs and strategy titles.
Latest articles by Marshall Honorof

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PlayStation Plus is now a full-featured game subscription service, with a library of classic and modern games, cloud gaming features and PC compatibility.

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In a moderately good gaming deal, you can grab an HP Pavilion desktop with an Intel Core i5 CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD for $699 today.

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Bayonetta 3’s latest trailer finally reveals the game’s release date: October 28, 2022. There’s also an intriguing new witch called Viola.

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The SteelSeries Arctis Pro splits the difference between a headset for audiophiles and gamers. While it’s no longer the latest model, you can get this headset at its lowest price ever.

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The PS5 Console – Horizon Forbidden West bundle costs $549 on Prime Day, but you’ll have to get pretty lucky before you buy one.

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On Prime Day, you can get the Razer BlackWidow V3 gaming keyboard for $80. That’s a pretty steep discount off of its usual $140 price.

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You can currently get an Xbox Series S and a SteelSeries Arctis 3 headset for less than $300 in an excellent Prime Day console gaming deal.

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On Amazon Prime Day, you can get the best-in-class Astro A40 gaming headset for $99, which is $50 off its usual price.

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The Logitech G502 is one of the best gaming mice you can buy, and a Prime Day deal makes it available for just $33. You can also get its wireless counterpart, the Logitech G502 Lightspeed, for $89.

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Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is one of my favorite games on Xbox Game Pass so far.

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe successfully adapted the superhero comic book formula to the big screen, for both good and ill.

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I installed a Netgear Orbi system in a suburban house that’s never had good Internet before. But the system is very pricey.

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Yakuza: Dead Souls maintains the series’ signature weirdness and charm, but the combat makes the whole thing into a slog.

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The Steam Summer Sale 2022 has made hundreds of great games available at steep discounts. Here’s what the Tom’s Guide staff recommends.

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Google makes it pretty easy to manage your third-party app permissions, which you should do every so often.

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Nintendo has announced a Nintendo Direct livestream for February 9, 2022. The show will last for 40 minutes, and should include information about a variety of upcoming Switch games.

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The first Nintendo Direct of 2022 revealed some remastered Mario Kart courses, Splatoon 3 details and a port of No Man's Sky.

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With mouse and keyboard support on the way, Xbox game streaming will soon work much more seamlessly on non-gaming PCs.

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Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the official follow-up to Final Fantasy VII Remake. The game will pick up where the first one left off, and come out in 2023 or 2024 for PS5.

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The HyperX Cloud Mix Buds sound good, particularly for gaming, but the fit is imperfect and the tech issues are hard to ignore.

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Clocking in at more than 2.5 hours, there was a lot to see at the PC Gaming Show 2022. Here are five of our favorite titles.

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A new gameplay trailer for Diablo IV at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase gave us information about the Necromancer class, as well as the game’s open-world structure and couch co-op features.

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Sonic Frontiers pits the Blue Blur against an open world with plenty of platforming challenges, but it’s an unusual genre for a Sonic game.
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