We’re kicking up the pace down-under, as we’ve just announced SteelSeries product availability across all 120 JB Hi-Fi stores in Australia and New Zealand.

Here’s a quick snippet from the press release:

“The ability to offer SteelSeries professional gaming gear at a distribution level this broad, with a quality partner like JB Hi-Fi, is a huge step forward for SteelSeries in Australia,” commented Flemming Gyldenhammer, Regional Sales Manager for SteelSeries. “This partnership strongly underlines the demand for professional gaming peripherals in the Australian market; a demand that we look forward to fulfilling with the help of JB Hi-Fi.”

The full press release can be read here. :)

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Last weeks grand slam events were nothing but an incredible ride for the SteelSeries teams.

First off, at the Intel Extreme Masters World Championships in Germany, Team EG grabbed the World of Warcraft PvP trophy, followed up by SK Gaming’s Shane “Rapha” Hendrixson taking home gold in the QuakeLive tournament and finally Fnatic and SK Gaming grabbed 2nd and 3rd place in the Counter-Strike tournament.

Rapha used the first SteelSeries 7H Headset prototype to win the EM World Championships.

Additionally, at this years’ largest Call of Duty 4 grand slam event, the Crossfire Challenge 7 in the Netherlands, Fnatic managed to take 1st place and Power Gaming 3rd.

Fnatics CoD4 team on their way to 1st place at the Crossfire Challenge 7.

Check out final standings for the World Championships at ESL World and for Crossfire Challenge at TeK-9. Galleries are available at Cadred, SK Gaming and HLTV.org.

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On the 18th of February, Fnatic kicked off their StarCraft II Rookie Draft and I wanted to make sure you guys are aware of this project. :)

Basically, the Rookie Draft opens up the possibility of 4 amateur StarCraft II players to become professional players in the Fnatic organization. The draft initially went through a 10-day phase of public ladder games to identify the top32 players, who where then announced yesterday in 8 different groups. Top2 of every group will eventually move on into playoffs where the final 4 players of the new Fnatic StarCraft II team will be found.

This way of recruiting players is extremely exciting and I’m eagerly following the progress. Check the Fnatic news posts below for more information on the draft.

SteelSeries helping to power the FnaticMSI Rookie Draft!
FnaticMSI Rookie Draft - top32 and Group Stage

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Team EG’s American World of Warcraft team took a flawless road to the top of the podium this week in Hannover, as they swept the board completely at the Extreme Masters World Championships and went home with the $25,000 check.

Still to go is the Counter-Strike finals, where SK Gaming, Team EG and Fnatic represent 3/4 in the play-offs as well as the QuakeLive tournament where Rapha (SK Gaming) and DahanG (Team EG) are moving

Congratulations EG, and good luck to the rest of the teams - today will be an exciting day. :)

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During CeBIT we’ve just proudly announced the by-all-means-awesome, closed-type, passive noise reducing SteelSeries 7H headset and the mechanical SteelSeries 6Gv2 modeled after the award winning 7G keyboard.

SteelSeries 7H.

I added a few links below for you to check out all the information and specs on the new products. There’s also a big bunch of detailed pictures available - in fact, I don’t think we have ever shot so many pictures of a product, as we did with the SteelSeries 7H.

SteelSeries 7H press release
SteelSeries 7H product page
SteelSeries 7H pictures

SteelSeries 6Gv2 press release
SteelSeries 6Gv2 product page
SteelSeries 6Gv2 pictures

SteelSeries 6Gv2.

Did I mention that spring is pretty much owning winter at the moment here in Copenhagen? Enjoy your day. :-)

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Europe’s premier DotA Community, DotA-League, just announced prizes for the huge Pick League XIII where we’ve added a broad mix of SteelSeries products as well as a 1.000 EUR cash prize to the top finishers of the numerous league divisions.

If you’re into DotA in general, I suggest you get involved with DotA-League - if not for the Pick League, then for their SIG’s or Farm4Fame tournament. :)

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An exciting project of ours went live this Monday in France, where the French are able to get their hands on the extremely limited Golden-themed SteelSeries Xai Laser Mouse.

Surprisingly simple, a gift voucher for a Golden Xai is hidden within two different, randomly selected SteelSeries Siberia v2 headset retailboxes on the shelves of French retailers/webshops Virgin, Surcouf, Materiel.net, Pixmania, Rue De Commerce, LDLC, Grossbill and Darty, until April 2nd.

Final note: Only 100 of these babies were produced. Worldwide. :)

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We’re continuing our partnership with Burton for their 28th Annual U.S. Burton Open Snowboarding Championships at the Stratton Mountain in Vermont on March 16th-21st.

However, this year we kicked up our activities a notch, and got together with Volvo to offer you guys a chance at winning a trip to the event to check out the competition, the pro riders and even the SteelSeries booth. :-)

Basically we’re putting in the whole lot - VIP treatment, hotel accommodation, roundtrip airfare, all-access VIP tickets, cash to spend and finally ground transportation in a selection of brand new Volvo cars throughout the event.

To enter the win-a-trip contest, simply fill in your details on the SteelSeries Burton 2010 event page. See you on the slopes?

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To celebrate the availability of the most-definitely-awesome StarCraft II beta, Fnatic, SK Gaming and ClanBase are now giving away a bunch of the StarCraft II themed SteelSeries QcK mouse pads on each of their community sites.

In both cases we are talking easy-to-enter drop-a-comment-give-aways, which should leave you no other option than to join in. ;)

Check below for competition links:

StarCraft II competition at SK Gaming
StarCraft II competition at Fnatic
StarCraft II competition at ClanBase

- both are running throughout this week.

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We’re running an awesome giveaway these days for all SteelSeries fans on Facebook in cooperation with NCSoft, which basically revolves around us giving away a massive amount of Aion Basic Potion Packs to all our Facebook fans - while supply lasts. :-)

To get your Basic Potion Pack, simply follow these steps:

1) Become a fan of SteelSeries at Facebook
2) Check your updates after 15:00 CST the day you become a fan
3) Follow the link and enter the appropriate information
4) Check your email to receive your unique in game potion pack code

Make sure to all info in the tournament note HERE.

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