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

As mentioned earlier on FragYou.net, we attended the D3 Expo in Denmark in November where we brought along a shiny Hummer H2 - filled with SteelSeries products.

Visitors passing by the SteelSeries booth were asked to help us count the number of products in the ride and in return we offered to randomly draw out 15 winners of various SteelSeries products.

We’ve now finally picked out the lucky 15 - prizes and names are as follows:

SteelSeries 3H
Kristoffer Krøyer
Morten Volff
Walther Traberg-Christensen
Stella Hansen
Rolf Lübke

SteelSeries QcK Heavy
Jonas Bruun
Alexander Crone
Oliver Schrøder
Rune Nielsen
Mads Pedersen

SteelSeries QcK
Michael Godlonski
Jon Gahrn Henriksen
Casper Birch
Susan Rye Christensen
Anders Normann

Winners have been contacted by e-mail for further instructions on how to receive their prize - happy holidays to all of you. :)

/Casper

This weekend SteelSeries was represented at the digital entertainment fair D3 Expo in the center of Copenhagen. It was a great experience like last year, and we had loads of people coming through to check out all the new products.

People tried to guess how many products we had stuffed into the huge SteelSeries Hummer H2.

All of our headsets lined up and someone trying to beat zone from Gravitas Gaming in the background.

You’re never too young to become a professional gamer.

The SteelSeries Siberia Neckband was hooked up with a bunch of Xbox’ - people loved them as soon as they figured out they had to go behind the head and not on top of it…

/Crash_

The last pictures from Taiwan has been uploaded to flickr. We would like to thank everyone in Taipei and Taichung for two awesome events.

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Today we went to vist Ultimax Gaming (UMX), the best Counter-Strike team in Taiwan. SpawN told the team about his experiences in gaming and gave some of his input on the mindset that teams need to win today. He also played a game with the team, destroying a team from southern Taiwan.

Tomorrow is all about headshots. We move into FNAC in Taipei, where some of the best gamers in Taiwan has already signed up to challenge SpawN. Pictures and video online soonish.

/Kim

After (what feels like) the longest flight in the world, me and SpawN finally arrived in Taiwan.

We are here to do a couple of shootouts and inspect a new gaming surface (which we will be announced soon). The atmosphere in Taiwan is really awesome, everyone we have met has been so friendly and we expect some of the best Taiwanese players to show up for the two shootouts.

We will post a gallery and a report from the shootouts within the next few days.

/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

If you’re in Dallas this December for the The CPL® 2006 USA Championship Finals you’ll see a lot more of these. Promise.

Remember: December 16th to December 20th at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Dallas. See you there.

/Kim

If you are in Copenhagen this coming weekend feel free to drop by Danish Electronic Entertainment Expo. Together with the guys from Zitech Computer we are arranging shootouts against the ESWC 2004 champions KK and whimp - formerly from team The Titans.

Beat them and you might win a custom-made gaming machine with the very first Intel Core 2 Quadro processor in Denmark.

Not bad, eh? ;-)

/Kim