Razer
collaborates with gamers to develop, manufacture and market
cutting-edge gaming peripherals utilizing proprietary technologies
that give gamers the competitive edge. We reinvented the
computer gaming industry by bringing this competitive edge
to gamers when professional computer gaming was in its infancy.
In the mid 90s, with the advent of networked gaming and
competitive first-person-shooter (FPS) games, gamers found
that their legacy peripherals were inhibiting rather than
enhancing their gameplay.
In 1999, the Razer Boomslang™, the stuff
of gaming legends, was launched after much research. Featuring
an unprecedented precision of up to 2000 dpi when other
mice maxed out at 400 dpi, the Razer Boomslang, powered
by proprietary opto-mechanical technology, offered up to
five times the accuracy of other gaming mice. It came as
no surprise when professional gamers widewide such as Jonathon
“Fatal1ty” Wendell and Sujoy Roy readily adopted the Razer
Boomslang as their gaming mouse of choice. In just two years,
more than 100,000 Razer Boomslangs were sold by Christmas.
The next quantum leap came with the unveiling
of the Razer Diamondback™ in San Francisco at the Grand
Finals of the World Cyber Games 2004. The Razer Diamondback™
was the world’s first 1600 dpi optical gaming mouse. Powered
by Razer Precision™, the Razer Diamondback was the first
gaming mouse ever to sweep all the major gaming awards available
at that time. It also outclassed an entire genre of gaming
hardware to be awarded the highly coveted
Gamespot's
Gaming Hardware of the Year 2004 accolade. The Razer Diamondback
was considered the de rigueur gaming mouse of its
prime with most of the leading gaming professionals adopting
it as their weapon of choice.
Having led the technology arms race and
overpowered competitors, Razer once again stamped its authority
in gaming technology in the fall of 2005, by launching the
Razer Copperhead™.
Sporting the world's first 2000dpi laser
sensor in a gaming mouse, the Razer Copperhead scored another
world first by being an “intelligent mouse,” possessing
32kb of onboard memory powered by Razer Synapse™. It is
also the fastest mouse today, utilizing a full speed USB
bus when other mice are still low speed USB devices, and
is up to 8 times faster in terms of data polling.
Shortly
after the Copperhead, the Razer Tarantula™ was launched.
It is the first definitive keyboard created for Gamers by
Gamers, featuring anti-ghosting capabilities, 32kb of onboard
memory powered by Razer Synapse, 10 programmable gaming
hot keys and an optimized Hyperesponse™ gaming key-top with
fully replaceable keys. The Razer Tarantula was launched
at CES 2006 (Las Vegas) and immediately was a finalist in
the Best of CES Show.
The realization that gamers also need excellent positional
audio and crisp acoustics led to the launch of the Barracuda™
HP-1 and AC-1, Razer’s initial foray into audio. Hot on
the heels of the Barracuda, Razer unveiled the Razer DeathAdder™
towards the end of 2006. Featuring a 3G Infrared sensor,
1800dpi and easily 2.25 times faster than conventional mice,
the DeathAdder also has a response time of 1000HZ/1ms and
5 customizable buttons.
Right about then, Microsoft and Razer
decided to co-develop and co-brand Microsoft’s next generation
of gaming peripherals, culminating in the Microsoft|Razer
Habu gaming mouse, and the Microsoft|Razer Reclusa gaming
keyboard.
Further diversifying the product line
for gamers, it was in the Spring of 2007 when Razer and
THX announced a partnership on
next
generation audio products. With that, the Razer Mako™ was
announced at CES 2007, Las Vegas, and garnered Wired Magazine’s
‘Most Innovative of CES.’ The Razer Mako is in a class of
its’ own, with an innovative downward firing design
eliminating distortion from the ‘desk-bounce’ phenomenon,
which creates a rich, omni-directional soundstage with a
broad and uniform response pattern.
Undoubtedly, Razer is the worldwide leader
in terms of professional gaming peripherals. While we are
light years ahead of our competitors in terms of technology,
design and ergonomics, we are not resting on our laurels
but are developing other key products and peripherals with
the gamer in mind to bring that competitive edge to gameplay
that Razer is synonymous with.
Headquartered in Carlsbad, California,
Razer collaborates with gamers to develop, manufacture and
market cutting-edge gaming peripherals utilizing proprietary
technologies that give gamers the competitive edge. Razer
products have earned critical praise and won multiple awards
from around the world for their precision, sensitivity,
usability and distinctions in product design. Engineered
to near perfection, Razer’s reputation of being the leader
in gaming peripheral technology is embodied in every single
Razer product.
Razer - For Gamers. By Gamers.
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