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 Best Gaming Peripheral Game consoles are largely self-contained affairs, and they do not require you to go out and buy a bunch of accessories in order to have fun with them. That's as it should be, but once in a while a gaming accessory emerges that's so compelling that it's absolutely worth the price. Such is the case with the following item, winner of our award for Best Gaming Peripheral:
 Though there have been quite a few excellent peripherals released this year, none of them has had quite the impact that Xbox Live has since its launch in mid-November. The service offers high-speed multiplayer gaming over a broadband-only infrastructure, which not only alleviates the lag issues associated with dial-up multiplayer connections, but also makes downloadable content (in the form of new levels and other game features) and voice communication a possibility. Indeed, the voice communication aspect has become quite an interesting part of Xbox Live, as players can always be found using it in all the different Xbox Live-compatible games, either to discuss strategy, to talk smack, or to just chat. Xbox Live's impact even goes beyond the realm of the consumer. Since Xbox Live is a standardized service, developers and publishers don't have to take the time to establish their own online gaming infrastructures. All this comes for a reasonable $50 fee that includes a one-year subscription to the service and the headset, making Xbox Live the best gaming peripheral of 2002, and what by all means seems to be a revolutionary product.
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