The hump in the middle turns it into a teeter-totter, and the weak magnets threaten to send the aluminum business on top sliding onto the floor. Sova has promised customizable options to add a splash of color or a logo to your board, but right now details are scarce. The channel along the front is also deep enough for you to stash the extra length of your mouse cable inside, so there's no loops hanging around to get caught on things. Sure, I played Duck Hunt and Mortal Kombat with my cousins growing up, and I’ve watched a lot of Halo, but it wasn’t until I started playing them myself that I became ensnared in a gear-related Gordian knot. ROCCAT's most popular software features reside under the hood of Sova, making it not only comfortable, convenient and customizable, but powerful.

It’s actually an aluminum and plastic shell made to fit Corsair’s popular K70 keyboard — which happens to be my gaming keyboard of choice. Millions have enjoyed playing on the couch, experiencing the casual ease of plug-and-play fun that comes with it.The compact keyboard layout ensure that your arms can be held almost straight ahead, rather than being stretched out in either direction, and the height of the unit is just right too.

There are no such restrictions with the Sova, and for once Roccat's tendency towards the big and bulky side of peripherals actually works out in their favour.Of course you had to have a good chair, a heavy-duty headset, multiple curved monitors, a webcam for streaming, and a massive PC with lights and a water cooling system humming along next to you. The next part of the Sova is its integrated mousepad, which is made from some kind of plastic composite. keyboards are popular because they only shrink or remove a few keys compared to a TKL; most of the space saving is done by reducing the gap between different areas of the keyboard and placing keys like Insert, Delete and Home in a single column on the right side of the keyboard. It works with any mouse with the added benefit that a wired mouse can plug into one its two USB ports and save you the hassle of connecting the mouse to your machine located on the other side of the room.

We had great fun using the Sova, turning the traditionally solitary pursuit of PC gaming into a more social experience to be enjoyed with friends.The important thing is we have been able to play with it ourselves and can give you some sense of what it's like to use, even if it's only an embryonic view. One will obviously be occupied by your mouse most of the time (whose cable can also be tucked into the docking rail along the upper edge of the Sova or used in conjunction with a clip-on bungee), but the fact that I can also use the other one to connect a controller or USB headset without having another giant cable dangling across the floor and providing another trip hazard for my cats is just an absolute god-send - and a big part of why I like it so much. Rock Paper Shotgun is owned by Gamer Network Limited, a ReedPop company and subsidiary of Reed Exhibitions Limited. Of course, this makes sense — when you’re playing at a desk, your monitor is going to be only a metre away from you at most, so seeing these details is easier.