A NAME ONCE familiar to PC builders, before onboard sound on motherboards ruined its fun, Creative Labs has been branching out as more of a general peripherals manufacturer, keeping the Sound Blaster name alive, and focusing on sound with amplifiers, headsets, and even PCIe soundcards, while also producing keyboards, webcams, and, now, mice.
The Siege M04 has a truly awful name, but one or two things going for it. The first is something of an oddity, a celebration of absence in a marketplace where more is always, well, more: the complete lack of software prediction of where your pointer will end up, and no acceleration (although you can turn this on in software). This, according to Creative, leads to a more precise mouse, and maybe when you’re playing an RTS…