These days your typical gaming mouse would have up to 8 buttons, have a weight system and enable you to customize the colours in just a few clicks. Such a sophisticated device can only mean one thing, gaming mice have certainly progressed in the last couple of years. Recent trends have been to design gaming mice to be funky, modern and feature bursting, and as such you would expect to pay the price.

Today we have an attempt from SteelSeries to break out of this trend and offer a gaming mouse with a 'minimalist' approach. Behold, the Kinzu. The Kinzu could quite easily be mistaken for a standard optical mouse, sure enough it has just 3 buttons and a scrolling wheel. There isn't anything special from its visual appearance either, but then this is the concept behind this mouse. It's quite clear, the Kinzu is for the oldschool gamer that doesn't need numerous buttons to play the games they love.