If a game is a “Game Sense” supported game, the software then offers a drop down menu of all the various in-game events you can choose to receive tactile alerts about

Using Steel Engine, software to adjust the mouse, I have set a variety of functions to be software specific for working online, to playing all of my favorite games

I'm an avid gamer as well as an IT

This is just too annoying to deal with when playing competitive games.

This is true, but it happens automatically only if Steel Series 3 (the software) supports the game via SS3 “Game Sense

If a game is not a “Game Sense” supported game you can set up your own tactile alert but you must trigger them manually with a button press or keystroke versus the game automatically detecting the event

Unfortunately its most innovative feature, Gamesense, only fully supports 3 games at the time of this review

I have several profiles setup, each game I play and for work and switching is easy

I also suspect that people will bind their most often used and critical game commands to the button immediately under their thumb as I have, because it saves time to press in on that button without moving to it from the dead zone area

As of this writing, only three games are supported in Game Sense: DOTA, CS:GO, and Minecraft