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Published: Mar 21, 2009 Author: Niko Lupala Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Steelseries Share this article:

First Look at the WoW Mouse

Today we are going to take a look at a new mouse from Steelseries, this mouse has been hard to get due to its popularity. The reason it is so popular is because it's an official World of Warcraft mouse, what is so special about it then? Lets find out!

About Steelseries:

SteelSeries is all about gaming. Our mission is to create performance enhancing gaming gear, created for and by leading professional gamers. We continuously strive to better ourselves, and work with leading professional gamers from 3 different continents to create our products.

Our staff is distributed throughout the world, working from offices in Europe, North America and Asia.

The SteelSeries headquarters are located in Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark), and host the primary office facilities for the company. The headquarters handle all planning, production and partner coordination.

For logistical reasons we also have sales offices in Asia (Taipei, Taiwan) and USA (Los Angeles, California). From Taipei we can reach the entire Asian market, as well as New Zealand and Australia. From Los Angeles we can reach North America, Canada and South America. All manufacturing is done by sub-suppliers from Europe and Asia, and then delivered to one of our warehouses for final processing.

Features:

- Macros up to 160 characters
- A total of 15 programmable buttons
- Over 130 predefined commands for drag-and-drop macro creation
- 16 million illumination choices with 3 intensity and pulsation levels
- World’s first gaming mouse designed exclusively for World of Warcraft®

The Product:

 
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The mouse comes packed in a very Wow inspired box where you are still able to see the mouse itself. On the back you can read about the various features this mouse hold. For example it has 15 buttons which allows you to program various attacks and spells to them for faster access.

 
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The box can be opened so you can get an idea of how the mouse will fit in your hand. The mouse itself has a black and brushed steel color scheme, you also get a manual that will describe how to use the various buttons and how to setup macros.

 
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Looking at the mouse we can see a World of Warcraft logo on it and a bunch of various buttons. Around the scroll wheel they have mounted two buttons and also infront of it. All these buttons are easy to access and easy to push and use.