Last weekend saw one of the most anticipated gaming events in France this year, the Festival De Jeu Video, take place in the heart of Paris. I was blessed with the opportunity of attending and had great fun - especially with trying out the new titles from NCSoft and UbiSoft.

Seconds after finishing the build up of the booth.

Also, the French World Cyber Games qualifiers took place with Millenium taking home gold in both Counter-Strike 1.6 and WarCraft III - we look forward to seeing the guys represent France and compete for gold at the WCG Grand Finals in Chengdu, China in November. :)

Ze counter.

Look below for more pictures of the event and thanks to JeuxOnline and NCsoft for executing an absolutely massive give-away show!

“:D”.

/Casper

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First off, sorry for the lack of updates on the blog in the last couple of weeks. We’ve been overly busy with promoting the new releases, visiting events and working hard on making sure that you will be able to check reviews of the recently released products ASAP.

To the point of this post, however:

We are aware of a recent issue with retrieving character information from the WoW Armory in the WoW MMO Gaming Mouse software.

This has occurred due to recent updates made to the Armory website. It may result in the WoW MMO Gaming Mouse software crash and the inability to link new characters to the software. You may have received an “AP MFC” error, which is a clear indicator of this problem.

You should still be able to use your already linked characters; however, you may experience issues when linking new characters to the mouse profiles. Note that it does not affect the mouse functionality in any way - the armory link is only a visual link to a game character, so you can keep using the mouse profile, including key bindings, macros and other settings as intended.

This issue is being addressed as swiftly as possible.Make sure to check back here on the blog as we post updates. :-)

/Casper

Over the last couple of years, we have received a lot of positive feedback and suggestions with regards to our products, one of these being the Siberia Full-Size headset.

We decided that we could bring to reality some of these suggestions from you to our beloved Siberia - without compromising on its design or comfort, thus resulting in the launch of our brand spanking new Siberia v2 headset.

I guess most of you are wondering what the differences are between the first Siberia and this new version so we have listed the changes for you below (and included a nice little picture):

- Reduced headband profile for better comfort
- Outer layer material changed to leather for better passive noise reduction
- New sound dampening foam to boost passive noise reduction
- Driver units boosted from 40mm to 50mm provides a very detailed and precise soundscape
- Near “invisible” microphone system- Closed earcup design for passive noise cancellation
- New mini in-line volume regulator with microphone mute switch
- Larger ear cups to support 50mm speaker units and improve comfort
- Reinforced headband for optimized pressure, stability


For more information about the Siberia v2 - feel free to check up the specs on our website.

Have a super weekend :)

/Louise

Few minutes ago we publicly announced our two products for the upcoming MMO from NCSoft, Aion, being the SteelSeries QcK Aion Asmodian and the SteelSeries Zboard Limited Edition Aion Keyset.

Check out the full press release and product pictures below. :)

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I finally came around to posting the pictures from our booth at this years’ BlizzCon, which took place a couple of weeks ago.

We definitely had a great time and the booth was very well visited by you guys, resulting in an almost fully packed area non-stop. Especially the waiting line for the treasure chests was overwhelming and we want to congratulate everyone who walked away with a prize. :)

Check below to see how it all went down - more pictures are available in our Facebook album.

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We’ve received a lot of inquiries on Windows 7 compatibility with the WoW MMO Gaming Mouse, and in spite of not officially supporting Windows 7 use just yet, there is a way to make it work. Simply follow these steps:

1. Uninstall your products driver
2. Select the driver installer in Windows Explorer
3. Right click the application –> click properties
4. Select the Compatibility tab
5. Check the first checkbox ‘Run this program in…’
6. Select Windows Xp (Service Pack 3)
7. Click “OK” at the bottom
8. Run the installer

Note: Some of our applications will not auto-start the tray icon after installation. Simply run it from the Start menu to launch it; it should then remember to auto-start upon restarting your PC.

We currently plan to offer full Windows 7 support in October, when the OS is available in retail. Beta drivers may even hit our downloads page prior to this.

Hopefully this is helpful to some of you guys who have been struggling to make it work - make sure to contact support if you got any questions. :)

/Casper

A few weeks ago, we paid India a visit and introduced our newly released products alongside an India-exclusive Gamer Kit, being a bundle consisting of three SteelSeries products.

The press conference went overwhelmingly well and we want to thank everyone who attended and showed interest. :)

Check below for a bunch of pictures:

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