SteelSeries’ new MOBA mouse turns your thumb into a tactical weapon

By Darren Allan

SteelSeries has released a new mouse pitched at the MOBA/MMO genres which the company claims ‘reinvents’ the mousing experience for players of these highly competitive games.

With the Rival 500, the company has essentially thought carefully about the placement of multiple buttons to ensure that hand movements and clicks are as natural and ‘efficient’ as they can be. And there’s also an emphasis on the mouse being comfortable to hold, which doesn’t hurt.

So the peripheral is designed with natural hand movements in mind, featuring curved buttons on the side that can be activated with a simple flick-down motion of the thumb, for speedy clicking. There are also a number of carefully positioned buttons on the top of the device for easy access to commonly used controls such as mounting up.

The main left and right mouse buttons have been fashioned from reinforced plastic to make them more durable, and to give both these buttons a more even and satisfying (not to mention consistent) clicking action.

The other major innovation SteelSeries is touting is ‘tactile alerts’ – in other words, vibrations through the mouse that can be set up to trigger when something happens in the game (though the company has already used this …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components