This weekend we were present at the Swedish 1500-person gaming event Birdie LAN in Uppsala with a SteelSeries booth, along with Counter-Strike icon GeT_RiGhT from Fnatic.
Below, feel free to check out a few pictures from the event and the 1vs1 shoot-out with GeT_RiGhT. I should include that he only lost 3 matches out of approximately 100 played.
The Pick League XII was announced a couple of days ago over at DotA-League, which has come to be the preferred stop for European DotA players.
This time around we kicked our support up a notch for the RTS community, by providing prizes for every division as well as some neat cash for the top finishing teams.
The DotA scene is ever growing and we insist on keeping up the support - you can help out as well, by gathering your friends and sign up a team to get a shot at the prizes. :)
Sign-ups are open until the 29th of May.
/Casper
The gamers in India have seriously picked up on our gaming gear and I’m happy to let you guys know that we’re expanding the availability of SteelSeries products in the Indian market at a rapid pace!
Therefore we feel it’s important to communicate and update Indian gamers thoroughly about what we’re up to, since the country is so huge and boasts so many gaming enthusiasts - and what better way to do this than a website?
Check out the temporary SteelSeries India page by pressing INDIA (duh.. :P) on the SteelSeries website.
/Casper
Together with Panini, Upperdeck and Blizzard we are proud to announce the Blizzard Costume Contest, giving European players a chance to win a trip to BlizzCon 2009 in Anaheim, California later this year.
To enter the competition you simply have to create a costume inspired by one of the Blizzard game universes and send it in. The best costume entry will be awarded with a free trip to BlizzCon 2009 together with a friend - whereas the top5 entries will receive a bunch of awesome loot from us and the other partners mentioned above.
The contest will start May 20 and run untill June 22nd where the winners will be announced - check out more info over on Blizzards contest page.
I’ll make sure to drop another note here on the blog a couple of days prior to kick-off.
/Casper
Thanks to a series of good performances at the recent international, major gaming events, SK Gaming has now managed to reach 2nd spot on the official world ranking presented by the G7 Teams association for Counter-Strike teams.
This means that former leader mTw takes 3rd place, now topped by Fnatic and SK Gaming.
Check out the complete ranking over at G7.
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We’re happy to publicly announce our new partner to kick off the SteelSeries brand in South Africa - check below for a snippet of the press release:
“Pinnacle Micro felt like a natural partner to approach when scouting for possibilities of broadening our brand and retail presence in South Africa,” commented Flemming Gyldenhammer, Regional Sales Manager at SteelSeries. “Every aspect of the Pinnacle business is appealing to us and I am extremely confident that we will realize our goals and achieve success in South Africa with this company by our side.”
The full edition is available here.
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Another software update has been released for the World of Warcaft MMO Gaming Mouse, featuring a list of very interesting fixes - especially the new custom macro entry method, allowing you to create macros in any language.
The new driver can be downloaded over on the SteelSeries downloads page and the complete list of release notes looks like this:
-> Control a key to start and end the macro.
-> Type or paste in a piece of text in any language, which will be output in a single line.
-> Rapidly output your macros.
-> Edit existing macro text at any point.
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After randomly drawing out a lucky winner in the Fnatic Celebration contest, we congratulate AJ (post #150) with his new gaming gear setup consisting of:
1x SteelSeries Siberia Full-size Headset RED
1x SteelSeries Ikari Laser
1x SteelSeries Limited Edition QcK+ (Fnatic)
AJ, please get in touch with me via “cm (at) steelseries (dot) com” so we can get your prize package shipped as soon as possible. :)
Look forward to more FragYou! competitions in the near future!
/Casper
Our QcK+ Limited Edition mousepads made in cooperation with MiBR, Moon, MYM and Fnatic went under the loop in over at the Driverheaven review laboratory and came out awesomely successful. Quoting reviewer Nathan Marks-Forder:
“The SteelSeries QcK+ Limited Edition team gear mats are simply brilliant products in every respect.
Awesome design work, flawless performance and the option to roll them up for easy portability makes these surfaces one of the strongest options out there for the hardcore and casual gamer alike. Additionally the large size reduces the amount of mouse repositioning necessary at low sensitivities, which I personally really appreciated during testing.”
This is actually our fourth product in a row to receive the “Heavenly Gold Award” (first three picks were the Ikari Laser mouse, the WoW MMO Gaming Mouse and the 7G keyboard) - and we’re actually the only company ever to achieve this on Driverheaven. :)
/Casper
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