StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is out and as with any other awesome happening in life, a serious celebration is appropriate.

Samwise Didier.

Blizzard’s Senior Art Director for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Samwise Didier, and Blizzard Illustrator Wei Wang (who created the iconic Kerrigan vs. Zeratul, Nuke and Spectre images) have put their signatures on some SteelSeries Limited Edition QcK Tychus Findlay (signed by Wei) and SteelSeries Limited Edition QcK Marauder (signed by Samwise) mousepads, which we are now giving away. To you.

The give-away is extremely simple: To enter, simply upload your favorite in-game screenshot from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty to the gallery on our SteelSeries Facebook page.

Wei Wang’s “Nuke” artwork for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

SteelSeries Limited Edition QcK Marauder.

SteelSeries Limited Edition QcK Tychus Findlay.

On Friday August 6th we will randomly draw out 5 winners on our Facebook page, who will each walk away with one exclusively signed mousepad of their own choice, depending on whether they would want Samwise’s or Wei’s autograph.

Let’s go - get your entries in!

/Casper

LanOC just published their review of the SteelSeries 7H headset, concluding in both a Recommended- and Editor’s Choice Award. Here’s a few quotes from reviewer Wes Compton:

“The audio quality of the 7H when listening to music was truly impressive. In game it was no different. Not only was the audio quality top notch but the directionality in game is great as well. The 7H’s audio quality is where it shows why this is Steel Series’s flagship headset. In fact my biggest problem was finding MP3’s of the higher quality in my collection.”

“At just under $130 this isn’t a cheap headset but you are no doubt getting your money’s worth.”

Check out the full review here. :)

/Casper

SteelSeries teams TyLoo (CN) and Team Immunity (AUS) managed to pull in 1st places at their respective regional World Cyber Games 2010 qualifiers last weekend, which means that we’ll be seeing both teams represent their countries at the WCG 2010 Grand Finals, end-September in Los Angeles.

Team Immunity in action (Image source).

Big congratulations to the teams - I’ll keep you posted as more qualifier results pop in. :)

/Casper

I forgot to mention - we teamed up with Xfire and their official StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty community to take care of those of you who didn’t cop any SteelSeries StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty gear last night at the midnight openings. Check out full info below:

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Launch Contest
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is here! Xfire and SteelSeries are celebrating the release of the most anticipated sequel of all times by hosting a special Launch competition.

The contest is running through to August 27. :-)

/Casper

This weekend saw Fnatic cruise to the top of the podium at GameGune in Bilbao, while also taking the SteelSeries 7H headset out on its first date.

Fnatic cashed in €12,000 and could not have kickstarted their Summer 2010 World Tour in a more elegant way.

More pictures available over on HLTV.org.

Next up: The $57,000 Extreme Masters V Global Challenge Shanghai starting Thursday July 29th, where also TyLoo (Counter-Strike), EHOME (DotA) and Grubby (WarCraft III) will be in attendance.

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Join us, as we host another “SteelSeries Pro Night” tomorrow, on July 27th. This time around, we’ve invited Europe’s undoubtedly #1 Call of Duty 4 PC team, Fnatic.

Be a part of the live chat session with the entire team, experience the tricks’n'tips broadcast by team captain, and “Call of Duty Player of the Year 2009″, Stevy ‘Stevy’ Verheyen - and finally play alongside the team on the public Xfire servers. The full time schedule looks like this:

19:00-20:00 CET: Chat with FnaticMSI
During the Live Chat you will have a chance to ask all your questions to these Call of Duty 4 experts about the game, eSports, their careers and much more LIVE on Xfire.

20:15-20:45 CET: Live Broadcast by Stevy (Xfire Streaming Series)
Stevy from FnaticMSI, one of the greatest Call of Duty players of all time, will reveal various tips and tricks while broadcasting live over Xfire. Over the course of the tutorial Stevy will also provide commentary and personal insights.

21:00-22:30 CET: Play with FnaticMSI
Last but not least we will end this event with Play with the Pros! Play with FnaticMSI on various public Call of Duty 4 servers.

You’re welcome to bring friends and family. See you tomorrow. :P

/Casper

The $22,500 GameGune Counter-Strike tournament is well underway, with Fnatic cruising undefeated through group play and into playoffs. This is their first event sporting the SteelSeries 7H headset - check a few pics below:

Check out more pictures from the event over at HLTV.org.

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We all know that the Monday evenings sometimes tend to end up in a mix of unhealthy food and sleeping halfway through a terrible Hollywood flick. But not this one.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is launching at 00:01 on Tuesday the 27th of July, which means that it’s once again time for the most awesome midnight openings. We’re providing prizes for the queuing gamers mainly in the official German, Swedish, French, English, Mexican, Brazilian, Australian and Russian midnight openings but also the smaller, unofficial events taking place to celebrate the launch of this game.

One happening that I have to bring up is the midnight store opening in Media Markt Rotterdam Centrum, Netherlands, where Team EG’s world famous WarCraft III player Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen will be in attendance over the course of the night to hang out, meet’n'greet and sign your copy of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

See you at 00:01 on Tuesday. :-)

/Casper

Second part of the series of video interviews with SteelSeries CMO, Kim Rom, from the SteelSeries Chicago office just got posted over on ChicagoNow. This one revolves mainly around the development and research that went into the SteelSeries Xai Laser mouse and SteelSeries 7G keyboard.

Four your viewing pleasure:

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YouTuber/blogger LinusTechTips recently posted up one of the first English unboxing videos of the SteelSeries 7H USB. While we love the thoroughness of this guys’ videos, we also like the fact that his tiger-ish cat is testing the anti-ghosting feature of his SteelSeries 7G keyboard.

Check the video below. :-)

/Casper