WarCry reviews hardware, specifically related to MMOGs.
JR "razor" Sutich reviews the new OTTO Digital Gaming Headset in our latest gaming hardware review. He used this with a variety of games, including MMOs like World of Warcraft.
The OTTO Digital Gaming Headset (Model OT-8) arrived at our offices last month and I have been using it almost exclusively when playing online games since then. At first I didn't think I was going to like it, but now I prefer to game with them on.
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Last fall, Ideazon released their latest gaming peripheral: the Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse. This was the company's first foray outside keyboards (ZBoard). It was a solid debut entry and over the last several weeks WarCry Senior Editor Dana Massey has been using the Reaper day-to-day and offers this review.
Its sensitivity combined with its extreme light weight can cause some occasional problems. Most notably, if I sneeze while using the mouse, my cursor flies all over the screen in a way that rarely happened with a more hefty, less responsive mouse. Despite a few easy to undo Photoshop accidents and some disorientation in FPS titles, this is a relatively minor issue born out of the combination of two good things.
The full review is available at the link below.
In our second Zboard keyset review of the day, we look at Ideazon's offering for World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade. Whitney Butts took this one for a spin and came back with a more mixed review then Sutich did for Guild Wars Factions.
You can also get a chance to win your own World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade keyset and Zboard in a contest we're holding.
The overall functionality of the custom buttons seems cheap. They don't always work and there is a bit of delay. You press the button and in game you'll see your chat cursor activate. Once the cursor activates you will see the slash command for the action being entered in the chat window. At times, the delay was so long I likely could have typed the slash command faster than it took the keyboard to enter it in. Overall, the buttons seem like a glorified macro interface for slash commands that didn't quite work all of the time.
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Today we have a review of the Guild Wars Factions Zboard keyset. Ideazon, the makers of these keysets, specializes in custom keysets that plug into their own keyboard. These are designed to swap in and out and work specifically for each game. Our own JR Sutich had a chance to review one.
You can also get a chance to win your own World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade keyset and Zboard in a contest we're holding.
Do one thing and do it well. The Zboard is a great example of that, as it chooses to focus on being a great custom keyboard layout for various videogames. The specific layout I had the chance to use was for Guild Wars Factions.
Setting up the keyboard was a fairly simple operation, once I had figured out that the newer keysets were not compatible with older Zboard bases. After installing the drivers, it was only a matter of plugging in the USB Zboard in and letting the system detect it. The Zboard application was immediately able to show what keyset had been used, with a graphical representation of the Guild Wars Faction layout.
The full review can be found at the link below.
