August 2006
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A mans keyboard.
It’s been more than 5 years since we developed our very first mouse pad for professional gaming. Back then most people laughed when they heard we made “specialized mouse pad” (in all fairness, it wasn’t very cool to make “ordinary mouse pads” either). Why put so much effort into something as simple as mouse pads? Why spend months and months researching surfaces...
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Gunning for Version 2.
Tomorrow we will officially announce SteelSound 5H v2, an updated version of SteelSound 5H, the first headset from SteelSeries. Truth be told, SteelSound 5H was a learning experience for everyone at SteelSeries. In the beginning of 2006, we issued a press release recalling two production batches - almost 4% of the units from those two batches suffered from technical problems with microphones and...
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29 days later.
Every time we release a new product, there is one thing we always look forward to.. Well, we look forward to it, and we fear it at the same time: the first reviews.
29 days. That’s the average time from when we send a mouse pad to a reviewer, till the final review hits the net. 29 days is a long time to wonder. Did we do everything right? What will the reviewer focus on? Will he focus on...