Did you play Steel Battalion for the Xbox? Do you have fond memories of a hulking controller with tons of buttons? Well, so does Razer, apparently. because they’ve worked closely with Pirhanha Games to create a unique and awesome looking controller for the upcoming MechWarrior Online free to play title.
On display this year at E3 was a demo product that wasn’t functional, but was intended to garner support and gather feedback to help perfect the design for a release in the near future.
What we can see so far shows a Joystick with various different buttons, a screen in the middle that can be manipulated to show various different things (in the Mechwarrior Online game, this can be used for a map, your armor, your target’s armor, and more than likely your weapons), a small throttle, and keypad. The keypad and joystick have integrated functionality, meaning that buttons pressed on the keypad can edit the assigned buttons on the joystick, allowing you to have a massive amount of hotkeys with just a few button presses.
There’s no word on whether it will be a modular system so that left-handed players can switch the joystick to the other side. Knowing Razer’s build quality, it will likely be made of pretty high-grade material, which will also likely send the price up, likely in line with the cost of their mechanical keyboards.
Do you think Razer has taken a unique approach in offering specialized peripherals, or is this something that is just a waste of desk space? Let us know in the comments below!
this E3 sucks…
games require kinect
with the joystick thing
Im going to come out of AIT as an e3 15u ch47 helicopter mechanic and i just want to clarify how much i will make …. im just curious because some sites say i make close to 4 grand a year for drill pay and 1800 a month per year. Also if anybody works in New York state with this MOS what kind of civilian jobs do you think i will be able to obtain?
4×4 Evo 2
American Conquest (Requires 1024×768 – Refused to launch)
Age of Empires 2
Age of Empires III (Disable bloom effect & Shader Effects)
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Astro Avenger 2
Audiosurf
Barrow Hill
Battlefield 1942
Black and White 1
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Championship Manager 2001/2002
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Counter Strike 1.6
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Crayon Physics Deluxe
Crimson Skies
Crysis Only Here because it made Teeth rofl
Daemonica (1024×768)
Darwinia
Dawn of War
Deus Ex
Diablo
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Dune 2000
Dungeon Keeper II
Empire Earth 2
Fallout 2 (Tried windows 95 compat. mode)
Final Fantasy XI
Football Manager 2008
Football Manager 2009
Forsaken
Freeciv
Freedom Force (“Incompatible with this version of windows” error (SP3?))
Freelancer
Ghost Master (A little choppy at highest settings)
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Gish
Grand Theft Auto – Vice City (Runs very smooth at highest settings)
Guild Wars
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Half-Life 2
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Keepsake (Cuts off the bottom 168 pixels – Works, but unplayable)
MapleStory
Max Payne
Mechwarrior 3
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MySims
Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit
Neverwinter Nights 2 (Requires 1024×768)
No One Lives Forever
OpenArena
OpenTTD
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Project IGI
Ragnarok Online
Real War (flickering every few seconds)
Real MYST
Risk 2
Riven
Robin Hood
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3
Runaway: A Road Adventure (Weird graphical errors – probably requires 1024×768)
Scorched Earth 3D
Shogo:Mobile Armor Division
Sid Meiers Pirates!
Sid Meiers Pirates (2004 version)
Silver – 1999 Infogrames RPG
Sim City 3000
Sims 2 Double Deluxe
Soldat
Soldier of Fortune
Spore More Info
Starcraft
Starlancer
Star Trek: Armada 2
Star Trek: Klingon Academy
Star Trek: New Worlds
Star Trek: Starfleet Command 2/Orion Pirates
Star Trek: Starfleet Command 3
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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic w/ GMA Booster
Starsiege: Tribes
Still Life
Sudden Strike Plus Forever expansion
Sudden Strike 2
Syberia
Thief 2:The Metal Age
Tiger Woods 07
Tomb Raider Legend
TrackMania United Forever
Trackmania Sunrise/Extreme
Trials 2
Ultimate Doom
Unreal Tournament 2004
URU – Ages Beyond Myst
Vampire The Masquerade -Bloodlines
WANTED: A Wild Western Adventure
Warcraft III (16-bit color)
Warrior Kings – Battles
Wik and the Fable of Souls
World of Goo
Worms 2
Worms: Armageddon
Ys: Oath in Felghana
Ys: Ark of Napishtim
Ys: Origins
Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal
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Each conference at this year’s e3 has had a nice little opening montage to give us an idea of what’s in store, however I was a bit more interested in the song used in Ubisoft’s opening collage. Could anyone help me out?
i bought steel battalion a week ago and i need a new disc for it because mine broke can anyone geive me a site that can sell it to me cheap (10 POINTS FOR BEST ANSWER!!!!!)
Now that E3 is over, which presentation do you think was the best? worst? Are you thinking about buying a new console after the presentations?
I can get E3 tickets because my dad is a franchise of a play n trade gaming with no problem but I wasn’t sure how old u have to be to go. I’m 16 and I also work part time in the gaming shop.
I would be so grateful if someone could help me finding a way to watch the introduction of the new Xbox 360 (The Future Revealed live show) which will take place today from 1:30–3 P.M. ET at the E3 exhibition.
I saw MTV will broadcast the event, but I have no access to a Tv right now…:(
Is there any way I could watch online this event??
Regards!
I went into bootcamp as E2 and its been exactly 9 months since my first day so am i E3?
The military pay chart says that a E3 makes around $1,900, but I have heard that their are many deductions and Marines end up having like $800. Is that true?
E3 is basically a lot of the video game companies get together and show what they are planning on in the future and to show off what is next for whatever game that is hot at the moment.It also gives way to some smaller companies as well.
Would this work as to promote professional wrestling without making any company bigger than the other?
Why not it wouldn’t be competition it would be just to promote the wrestling industry as a whole?
I know with the rank of eagle in boy scouts you can join the military as an e2, but I heard with some additional schooling you can get all the way up to e3. I’d like to get as big of a start I can, I also have hopes of joining the special ops (Marines). Any information will help, thanks!
How quickly can one get promoted from E3 to E5 in the Army? I am a little confused about the promotions in the Army. I’ve heard some people made E5 in four years starting from E1. My MOS is 68W. So what is the promotion rate and turnover rates are like in the Army? Current and former Army personnel please. Thanks.
My boyfriend is an E3 and begins basic training in a few days. His job is a Human Resource Specialist, so what duty stations are ideal for this job?
i have an old xbox, always wanted steel battalion, now i am about to buy the controller and everything but i need to know if i can use my xbx360 account in my old xbox to play in xbox live steel battalion online. i know the game isnt backwards compatible but i really would love to own this game.
I enlisted as a PFC (E3 due to prior college) in the Army for Infantry and leave for OSUT this July. How long does it normally take to make E4 or E5 from there? I signed a 3 year enlistment but might renegotiate it to 4 or 5.
Thanks in advice for your help
What was that song in the video they showed at e3
I currently have 20college credits and I’m thinking of joining the Army or Air Force. How many more college credits would i need for e3 in both branches?
Well basically I have a sudden urge to play some Mech sims and MW4 is the last decent one released unless I want to drop $150 on Steel Battalion. So I got myself a copy but using a keyboard is annoying, what joystick is good for it? I’m really cheap, so I don’t want to pay anymore than $29
Hm, I guess a regular controller could work. What about this http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pc_gaming/joysticks/devices/302&cl=US,EN?
It’s cheap but has a decent amount of buttons. I don’t exactly need precision either (I hope).
Nothing to be scared about, they kept telling me, it’s for your own good and ours. I still wanted to leave that place, even when we were under the tree. The branches of this tree embraced the night sky unable to hold its invisible weight. It was unforgivable, the deed we were about to fulfil, but who would care, he would be dead by the time we were through with him.
It was a cold night, after a hot day, and the air was still, like water on windless lake. The atmosphere was malevolent and I could feel my heart pounding in my chest, like the beat of an unsteady drum. As I saw the bus pull away, its rear lights went into the night like two red eyes fading to blackness. The driver’s radio was playing some sort of dance music, which became a faded murmur as the vehicle disappeared. It was then silent, like most nights round there. Many people never ventured out round these parts, even in broad daylight, because of us….because of me. He stood there isolated in darkness, not making a single sound or movement, only staring at us. I was under orders to stand my ground, but I wanted it over. My breathing was fast and heavy.
I could see that there was tension between the attackers, and the victim, like a pack of wolves hungry and ready to kill. Conspicuously, his dark eyes followed us as he started to head in the direction of the wasteland. I wanted to hurry after him, but I was given the command to stand still and wait. We were soon put into scattered formation by Freddy our leader, by means of a slight hand signal. We were our very own wolverine battalion. A smell of diesel hung in the air.
I slipped my fingers inside my jacket and felt the cold steel blade of the knife hidden within it. I was soon thrown from my daze as a shout from Freddy snapped me into reality. We rose up and our unity broke down my nervousness for the man’s fear had transmitted itself to me. Evidently, in the chaotic struggle the blade of my knife nipped my skin, a thin strip of blood crawled down my wrist, seeking a path to my fingers.
We fled into the surrounding darkness, going deeper and deeper into the graveyard of old cars. A castle of rusted metal, teetering higher and higher. One by one each member of the gang disappeared into the obscuring mist that formed around us.
I tasted sweat on my lips.
I stepped forth into the damp air, following the path of the others. We could see nothing for our path was dead. As we continued our hunt into the ungodly terrain of toothed metal I became caught on it, as it was growing up from the ground. I could feel it draining all the blood out of my leg. I could feel my life and my happiness draining out of me like a …
GameSpot and IGN will probably have slow downloads for free membership persons but is there any sites to check out for the latest and fastest downloads of E3 2006 coverage? Download the Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft conferences fast would be great when they have it.
I’m looking for somthing hardcore for my Wii
also $30 what should I get??
The Conduit
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House of The Dead:Overkill
MadWorld
Call of Duty World at War
Resident Evil:Darkside Chronicles
No More Heroes/Red Steel Bundle (gamestop sells it)
Battalion Wars 2
Metroid Prime 3
Sonic and the Black Knight