Everglide DKTBoard Brings Portable Gaming Keyboard

November 18th, 2007

We wonder this might not be a case of "if you can’t beat 'em, join 'em:" Everglide, a California-based gaming peripherals company, announced on Thursday that they’ve partnered up with Razer (another California-based gaming peripherals company) to create the DKTBoard, a portable gaming keyboard endorsed by former professional gamer Brian "DKT" Flander. Everglide targets their products to "old skool” gamers, while Razer’s marketing focus is on their cutting edge technologies, so the DKTBoard is supposed to be a synthesis of old skool feel and new skool tech: brushed aluminum chassis, slim keys, backlighting and eight macro keys.

We don’t know whether or not the DKTBoard is the $69.99 MSRP, but from a marketing standpoint, the professionally endorsed joint venture makes a lot of sense: smaller gaming companies like Everglide and Razer need every edge they can get in a market dominated by Logitech and its highly successful gaming products, like the G15 keyboard and the G9 mouse. We’ll be curious to see how well the DKTBoard performs against its competition.

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