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SteelSeries Built a $1 Billion Gaming Brand by Learning What Not to Make
Gaming · Hardware · Consumer

SteelSeries Built a $1 Billion Gaming Brand by Learning What Not to Make

A glass mousepad fixed one Counter-Strike player's dusty little problem. An MP3-player flop taught his company to stop wandering - and focus became the product.

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Fractal Design Bet Gamers Would Grow Up. Nine Million Products Later, the PC Case Looks Like Furniture.
Hardware · Gaming · Consumer

Fractal Design Bet Gamers Would Grow Up. Nine Million Products Later, the PC Case Looks Like Furniture.

The Swedish hardware company built a global business by noticing that gamers age, apartments have furniture, and a powerful PC does not need to look like an alien aquarium. Its next test is whether that taste can travel from cases to the whole gaming station.

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The Gaming Company That Turned a Three-Headed Snake Into a $2 Billion Cult
Hardware · Gaming · Consumer

The Gaming Company That Turned a Three-Headed Snake Into a $2 Billion Cult

It started with one gaming mouse and a promise that felt slightly ridiculous - build only for gamers, nobody else. Twenty-plus years later that stubbornness is a hardware empire, a payments business, and a snake logo people tattoo on themselves.

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The Budget Gaming Brand Betting Its Whole Pitch on 0.2 Milliseconds
Hardware · Gaming · Consumer

The Budget Gaming Brand Betting Its Whole Pitch on 0.2 Milliseconds

A4Tech has sold computer mice since 1987. Its Bloody line skips the metal contacts inside a switch and fires on a beam of light instead - then sells the result to gamers who won't pay Razer money.

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The Headset Company That Wants to Own Everything Around the Screen
Gaming · Hardware · Consumer

The Headset Company That Wants to Own Everything Around the Screen

Turtle Beach spent two decades teaching console players to care about what they heard. Now it is applying the same retail playbook to nearly every object their hands touch.

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