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Video games, addiction, and two shirts... the gamer paradox
01 August 08 04:04 PM | kflick | 0 Comments   
OK, this is old news by now, but for those of you who haven't seen it yet, it is definitely worth sharing. Here is a story about a Boston area psychologist who claims that treating people with problems stemming from "pathological computer use" is harder Read More...
Logos...
01 August 08 04:00 PM | kflick | 0 Comments   
Well, I've been poking around trying to find some logos to show. Not that we don't have a ton, but the problem has been trying to find ones that are OK to share. We (Capital-M-Microsoft) see everything we make as our intellectual property, even the things Read More...
Making a Logo is HARD
18 June 08 04:30 PM | kflick | 0 Comments   
How did we come up with the SideWinder logo? Wow, sometimes I wonder that myself. Not that I don't like it (I really do) but it was insanely hard work. I didn't really think it would be easy, but I figured we'd have a couple of iterations and nail something Read More...
Resurrection!
18 June 08 03:58 PM | kflick | 0 Comments   
Well, after reminding myself of the URL here, I'm glad to see that, while abandoned temporarily, the blog wasn't taken over by unicycle fanaticists. Here's the deal. When we originally conceived of this blog, it was meant to talk strictly about our products. Read More...
So... whaddya think?
17 December 07 07:06 PM | kflick | 1 Comments   
Hi all, Again - way too long between posts - chalk it up to a noob blogger (me), the fact that this is just a small part of my job, and the fact that I was totally laid up with a bizarre medical problem for the past couple of weeks (any more on that is Read More...
Never too late for a happy Halloween!
05 November 07 09:23 PM | kflick | 1 Comments   
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Out of HD space error message on driver install?
05 November 07 09:02 PM | kflick | 0 Comments   
A reader posted about problems with the driver install. Windows was giving an error message that there wasn't enough room on the HD, which obviously wasn't true. Here's a tip from our driver group for what to do if you're experiencing the same thing: Read More...
Gamer interview #1 Victor F. Laurence, AKA Livistos, AKA Soriathus
19 October 07 09:39 PM | kflick | 1 Comments   
This is the first in what will hopefully be a long series of interviews with gamers. See my post below for more background on the idea. Victor is the guild leader for my WoW guild, Hit it Like you Mean It on Emerald Dream. He runs a tight ship with an Read More...
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Demetre (AKA Skooter) and PMS
19 October 07 08:54 PM | kflick | 2 Comments   
Here's a picture of my buddy Demetre and two of his heroes from the PMS Clan . OK, we've all seen a picture like this before... guy at a gaming expo or LAN with a couple of attractive women. So what's different here? Demetre is different. He's one of Read More...
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More from Newegg LANFest 2K7... Hit it like you mean it
08 October 07 11:55 PM | kflick | 2 Comments   
I am fortunate to play WoW with some of the nicest people I've ever met online... the guild is Hit it like you mean it on the realm Emerald Dream. Horde FTW. (We're recruiting HoTers and ranged DPSers at the moment.) Well, 6 (Morviara is taking the photo Read More...
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Newegg LANFest 2K7
08 October 07 11:23 PM | kflick | 1 Comments   
My fellow Microsofties, Diego Baez, Charlene Wan, Gil Manalo and I attended the Newegg LANFest 2K7 last weekend. Here's a picture of Stu Grubbs from Gotfrag's FPS Labs interviewing Gil and me. Gil is our industrial designer and gets the credit for making Read More...
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been a while... recent developments
08 October 07 10:46 PM | kflick | 0 Comments   
Sorry for the lack of new content of late. I have been awfully busy lately on what is sometimes referred to as "my job." I try not to let little things like that get in the way of fun stuff like this, but sometimes it happens. Anyhow, I wanted to introduce Read More...
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Sidewinder Mouse Details
13 September 07 12:10 AM | kflick | 8 Comments   
Just in case you haven't absorbed all the various details about our new gaming mouse, here's a site for you to look at. Our marketing team developed this to help explain the mouse to our internal sales partners but I twisted their arms into letting me Read More...
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Interview on GotFrag
12 September 07 11:05 PM | kflick | 0 Comments   
Hi all, I was recently interviewed about our new Sidewinder Mouse by Stu Grubbs at the GotFrag FPSLabs . They were curious about the various decisions that led to the mouse specs and features. Check out the whole article here! I'm guessing that some of Read More...
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The cat (err, mouse) is out of the bag
30 August 07 09:44 PM | kflick | 0 Comments   
Well, I'd have to be the first to admit that this blog has gotten off to a slow start. Aside from chitchatting about myself or QuakeCon, there wasn't much to talk about... until now! We've announced our flagship comeback in the gaming mouse category with Read More...
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