BlizzCon isn't the only big gaming convention happening this week (though you'd never known it from reading our site -- we're a bit obsessive, no?).
Gamescom is going on in Germany, and gaming equipment manufacturer Razer has announced there that they're
releasing a new mouse, specifically designed for MMO games. They put it together in conjunction with MMO players (they say the folks at
Curse had a hand in it), and while it isn't officially tied to Blizzard as far as we can tell (Steelseries already
has that market cornered), there is one interesting connection. They decided to call this new mouse the "Naga."
Technically
the word is Sanskrit for "snake," and especially since most of Razer's mice are
already named after scaly reptiles, we suppose it works. But given that the mouse is supposed to be designed for MMO gameplay (it has a twelve button thumb grid, supposedly to keep your hands off of spell buttons and on movement buttons where they belong), it's probably a happy coincidence that the name of the product is reminiscent of
well-known villians in one very famous MMO. Good show, Razer.
They also have a new "mousing surface" (back when I was a kid, we just called them mousepads) called the Megasoma. Both are available right now, and they ain't cheap: $80 for the mouse, and $50 for the pad. But if you want to go high-end on a mouse, and
the Naga strikes your fancy, there you go.Filed under:
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