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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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FPS, or first person shooter, is the most popular genre of PC games. No console controller has surpassed the mouse as the weapon of choice among FPS enthusiasts. Zalman, a company known as a maker of coolers, is trying to woo FPS players with a gun shaped mouse, the FG1000. Since we are card carrying fans of the genre, we tested the new toy. Let the (digital) bullets fly.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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Looking at the FPSGun might give you the initial impression that it is some sort of Light Gun that you point at the screen. It is not. Instead, it regular mouse that somewhat resembles an inverted handgun. Thus, you hold it somewhat like you are gripping something, dare I say the handgrip of a "gun". The bottom of the mouse still has to rest on a surface; you aren't expected to hold this in the air. Instead, you move the FPSGun around approximately the same way you'd move a mouse around, sliding it on a surface. (The bottom has mouse feet just like any other mouse)
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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Gaming mice are probably the most important peripheral hardcore gamers can invest in, so cost is not usually an issue if the gains are noticeable. What Zalman is asking you to do though is to buy into an idea, a concept - one that may or may not work according to how well you adjust and how big your hands are. Comparing the FPSGUN to the likes of a Razer or SteelSeries mouse though might be considered a little unfair, as essentially you are limited to using the FPSGUN for FPS games. So, even if you did invest £35 in the FPSGUN, you would still have to stick with your old mouse for everything else - for us, this ruins any of the value and attraction the design could have ever had.
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