Gear reviews

The first genuinely new idea in gaming mice in years: inductive analog main switches you can tune like a Hall-effect keyboard — adjustable actuation, rapid trigger on the clicks, and a haptic 'feel' you dial in. It's a superb 61 g flagship; just know the edge is feel and consistency, not a win-rate you can measure.

The most-used mouse in pro Valorant and CS2 for a reason — a 54 g ambidextrous shape that disappears under fast aim. You pay the flagship price for refinement, not raw advantage.

The most universally-fitting shape in esports at 60 g. Not the lightest and not the cheapest, but the hardest mouse to dislike — and the easiest to recommend blind.

A 49.5 g wired flick mouse that skips the wireless tax entirely — native 8K over the cable, no dongle, no battery. The small narrow shell is the whole pitch: brilliant for claw and fingertip, wrong for big palm hands.

The famously comfortable DeathAdder shape at a genuinely light 57 g — ergos used to be heavy, and this one isn't. The right answer for big-handed palm grippers who don't want an ambidextrous shell. You pay premium for comfort, not for an edge you can measure.

A proven medium ambidextrous shape, 52 g, native 8K over the cable, at budget money. It clears the exact same competitive floor as a mouse three times its price — which is the entire point of this review.

A wide, precise, near-reference open-back at a mid price — the strongest value pick for competitive positional audio. The one genuine audio edge, at the point where it saturates.

A wide, well-imaged studio open-back at 48 Ω — the easy-to-drive sibling to the HD 560S, with the same honest positional edge that saturates right here. Buy it for the footsteps, not the badge.

A well-isolating closed-back with strong footstep capability for a sealed can — the right tool when an open-back's leakage is a liability. Bass-forward out of the box, but a free EQ fixes that.

The Hall-effect board that made adjustable actuation and rapid trigger mainstream. The clearest real movement-input upgrade in competitive FPS — within the rules.

A magnetic Hall-effect TKL with adjustable actuation and rapid trigger — the rare genuine movement-input edge, in a conventional body that keeps your arrows and F-row. Premium-priced, but the feature is the real thing.