WarMouse Meta

WarMouse Meta

The relationship between the keyboard and the mouse has long been a rocky one, especially where PC gaming is concerned. One is loaded with buttons but offers no fine-tuned movement control; the other gives you near-complete freedom of movement, but few interaction options. It's been essentially impossible to play any but the simplest of games with only one or the other. But that could soon change thanks to the new WarMouse Meta ($79 list), a gaming mouse for Windows, Mac, and Linux that's loaded with 19 buttons—and a joystick. If this doesn't cure your button-hunger, nothing will. With most of the buttons on the mouse's top face (including the scroll-wheel button), and one button and the joystick (or "altstick," as WarMouse calls it) on the mouse's left side, the WarMouse Meta does not look like any mouse you've ever seen. Nor does it behave like any other mouse—but whether that's a good thing or a bad thing for you will depend entirely on how you use your computer and how willing you are to relearn everything you thought you knew about mousing.