While moving to our new headquarter we made a quite interesting discovery at the very bottom of the product-stacks, stored at the former office.

Around year 2005 when NiP (Ninjas in Pyjamas) was busy ruling the world Counter-Strike-wise, we worked closely together with the team on product development, and had the guys sign a few of our products during a photo shoot in Copenhagen. Current mTw player whimp (The Titans member back then) was there as well and was kind enough to sign a few Icemat shirts.

So we figured: Instead of ebaying away these very rare items, we wanted to give you guys a shot at getting your hands on them - for free. The products available at this first competition are the following:

Icemat 2nd Edition Black (SteelSeries Experience I-2) - signed by Vilden.

White Icemat shirt - signed by whimp.

White Icemat shirt - signed by whimp.

Icemat Siberia (SteelSeries Siberia full-size) - signed on the back by NiP players Ahl, Potti, HeatoN, SpawN and Hyper.

SteelSeries 5Hv2 headband (not entire headset) - signed by NiP players Ahl, Potti, HeatoN, SpawN and Hyper.

NiP-Gaming The Revival t-shirt - signed on the back by NiP players Ahl, Potti, HeatoN, SpawN and Hyper.

The competition is quite simple: Write a comment to this post that describes the most memorable highlight from your time spent within the gaming community. Everything is acceptable - we just want to know what memory you find the most important and legendary of your gaming career. What comes to your mind? Being able to visit the very first CPL event? Playing a match against a professional team? Reading about your national team taking home gold in the Nations Cup? Winning an important final match with a 140 bpm heart rate?

If this competition has a decent turn-out, I promise to put up more old-school signed gaming gear and run more events like this in the very near future.

Good luck. :)

/Casper

It’s been a few months since you last heard from us - our apologies. I’ll spare you with all the reasons for why we haven’t been updating our blog and cross my fingers that you will appreciate the work we’ve been doing, when seeing the outcome later this year. ;)

In the meantime our good friend over at DotA-League.com, Moritz, has been residing in Africa (Kenya) on and off for the past 6 months. Recently he told me about a rather funny episode, where he caught a monkey playing around with his Siberia Neckband and eventually tried to steal it.

After a couple of jokes and on-top-of-our-head ideas back and forth, he sent me these pictures:

Placing the bait (onions).

The dilemma of trying to get away with the onions or the headset.

Excellent pose.

THE cover shot. Spot-on acrobatic, intense and raw, yet stylish capture.

We found it rather interesting that not only homo sapiens are interested in having the best gaming gear, and so did Moritz - this resulted in a joint competition over at DL where you have the chance to win some quite cool SteelSeries prizes. Read more about the competition here - and have a nice day!

/Casper

The holidays are over and everything is slowly but surely returning to normal again. While I’m sure most of you have had a good Christmas, I know some of you have had an extra good Christmas this year as 23 lucky gamers have been drawn and contacted in the SteelSeries winter-wonder competition.

As promised here are the winners:

SteelSeries 7G + SteelSeries SP + SteelSeries Ikari optical
Adam Firth

SteelSeries Neckband + SteelSeries I2
Benjamin Rodriguez
Alexander Ngo

SteelSeries Siberia in:ear head phone
Agata Tragarz
Kristian Mosegaard
Lee Van Steerthem
Bill Syrakis
Patrick Mok
Mikkel Villemoes
Anton Kusmin
Kim Robinson
Erique Tan
Dobre Mihai-Alex
Alex Hewett
Kosta Beric
Davide Correia
Muhammad Izzuddin Abqari Ahmad Basuni
Jimmie Andersson
David Grillo
Anas Ilyas
Daniel Rosenkranz
Thomas Eger
David Lukács

As you may or may not have noticed we’ve been running a special Christmas competition over at SteelSeries.com the past few weeks, were you are able to win the SteelSeries 7G, SteelSeries Ikari Optical and SteelSeries Neckband among others.

The holidays are coming closer and there’s only 5 more days left of the competition, so if you want to get an early Christmas present hurry up and go answer the question in the SteelSeries winter-wonder competition.

Almost every day since we set the SteelSeries Ikari mice and the SteelSeries Neckband up for pre-order, a lot of people have been asking when they could expect the product to be on their desk.

Last Friday, after having received a load of products at our warehouse, we could begin sending out products to everyone who had pre-ordered in our shop. So guys; stop asking and start looking for the postman if you haven’t already received your package.

In the not-so-distant future we will put up a bunch of Ikari Laser profiles on SteelSeries.com, which you can download and upload to your mouse if you want to feel exactly how the mouse of a top notch gamer feels like. By the way, if you want to learn more about the Ikari mice you should really go check out the product pages - just follow the links below.

SteelSeries Ikari Laser
SteelSeries Ikari Optical
SteelSeries Siberia Neckband

/Crash_

Finally! After months of extensive research and development, we’ve reached the point where the SteelSeries Ikari Laser, Optical and SteelSeries Siberia Neckband is weeks away from shipping to gamers around the world.

Both products are available in the SteelSeries Online Shop and will be shipped end of November. So if you want to make sure that you get the product, then go pre-order it. Right now.

/Crash_

Whoever said that gaming gear looked stupid? Some fanzy panzy people from the fashion industry obviously didn’t and used the SteelSeries Siberia Full-size headset in an ad-campaign.

We also caught a picture on a forum of our SteelSeries Experience I-2 in a beautiful setting with the Apple Mighty Mouse.

/Crash_

Our longtime partners SK Gaming are celebrating their 10 year anniversary this year – to celebrate we did this limited edition SteelSeries Siberia SK full-size USB headset. It blue. So blue.

More info.

/Kim

One of the biggest eSports events in 2007 took place this weekend in Paris, France. Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) is usually one of the better events to visit and this year was no exception. It’s somewhat surprising that most European and American events still fail to entertain spectators and make an event interresting to visit, but the organizers of ESWC usually puts on a good show - this year was no exception. As a spectator it was amazingly easy to be constantly updated on round-by-round scores, and the main stage was as impressive as ever.

For SteelSeries and the teams we work with, this was an amazing weekend. The ladies in SK Gaming took the championship title in Counter-Strike Female, while PGS Gaming took the championship in Counter-Strike male. Both teams were using the full suite of products from SteelSeries, something we are all very proud of.

I managed to sneak into the SK ladies “dressing room”, right before they played the finals against the Chinese girls. Their manager, Alex, wanted to go over the tactics one las time..

And accidently opened a nude picture of himself..

At the show we announced the new SteelSeries Siberia Neckband Headset. So far reactions have been positive, people generally seems to like the design. The main concern I have heard so far is fear that the headset won’t be comfortable (and don’t worry, it is :P). Picture below..

More pictures, and the official announcement, available at SteelSeries.com.

/Kim

Stay tuned for ESWC 2007 this week/weekend. We have something new to announce there. ;-)

/Kim