{"id":70566,"date":"2014-11-14T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70566"},"modified":"2014-11-14T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:19:31","slug":"cougar-gaming-coming-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/70566-cougar-gaming-coming-to-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Cougar Gaming coming to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German gaming brand Cougar is coming to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cougar-world.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">the brand<\/a>, myself included, it started in 2007 with the aim of bringing &#8220;technological advancements&#8221; to the world of gaming.<\/p>\n<p>One of the products the company is punting is its\u00a0700M gaming mouse. The device is due to arrive in SA in December 2014 and has a recommended retail price of R934.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MC7rPKwX9Gk?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 700M comes with an 8200DPI\u00a0sensor, has an aluminium frame, adjustable weights, and various sniper and fire buttons.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cougar the 700M was the first aluminium mouse to hit the market and went on to win the iF International Design Award of 2014. A mouse made out of aluminium actually sounds quite cool, although my current plastic Logitech is quite comfortable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70568\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-700M-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70568\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70568\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-700M-1-600x433.png\" alt=\"Cougar 700M \" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-700M-1-600x433.png 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-700M-1-96x68.png 96w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-700M-1.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cougar 700M<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As mentioned earlier, Cougar doesn&#8217;t just make mice. The company&#8217;s products include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aluminium gaming keyboards with Cherry MX Switches<\/li>\n<li>Mouse pads<\/li>\n<li>Gaming power supplies, some of which range between 600W &#8211; 1050W<\/li>\n<li>Gaming cases &#8211; full and midi towers<\/li>\n<li>Coloured 140mm cooling fans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_70572\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-Fan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70572\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70572\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-Fan-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Cougar Fan\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-Fan-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cougar-Fan.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cougar Fan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Would you try out a Cougar product? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/70418-is-dragon-age-inquisition-a-1010-game.html\">Is Dragon Age: Inquisition a 10\/10 game?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/70436-just-make-all-dlc-free-already.html\">Just make all DLC free already<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/70468-the-scores-are-in-for-assassins-creed-unity.html\">The scores are in for Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new player coming to town &#8211; Cougar (there&#8217;s a Cougar Town joke in there somewhere)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":70570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13112,13114,1776,21],"class_list":["post-70566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-cougar","tag-cougar-700m","tag-gaming-mouse","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}