Falcon Northwest has been making the Talon custom PC for 20 years.
Falcon Northwest has been making the Talon custom PC for 20 years.
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Falcon Northwest Talon gaming PC review — AMD is back in 20th anniversary edition

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Many self-respecting gamers have always favored building their own custom gaming PCs. But people like me don’t have the time or skill to do it right, and that’s why Falcon Northwest exists.

Kelt Reeves started the company out of his dorm room in 1992. While rivals such as Voodoo PC and Alienware emerged and became bigger, they got acquired and subsumed into larger companies. HP disbanded Voodoo PC and kept it going as a brand. Dell bought Alienware and turned it into a mass-produced brand. But Medford, Oregon-based Falcon Northwest stayed small, and today is still has just 25 employees.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.