Roccat (pronounced like rocket) recently announced the Kone [+], an updated version of their top-of-the-line gaming mouse, which we got a chance to see at GamesCom 2010. In Czech Kone is a form of the word horses and this certainly looks to be ready to be your gaming workhorse. I asked them where the names were coming from Kova, Kone, Apuri, Arvo and found out that they are Finnish words.

The original Kone arrived on the scene back in 2008 to mixed review and sold for 69.99. They’ve gone back to the drawing board and totally redesigned the gaming mouse for a re-release. It’s a hybrid shape and made specifically for right-handed players who need something more out of their mouse. They have no left hand specific mouse in their lineup, but the Kova (their other gaming mouse) is ambidextrous.

Functionality:

The new Kone [+] will retail for 79.99 Euro [tentative pricing] and comes with some pretty cool new features. As with many gaming mice you have the ability to set up profiles to help make gaming quicker and make you more productive. Well those profiles can be extended to any .exe so that means you can even create a profile and tie it to your word processor or other apps. In fact, each profile can be tied to three executables, so if you use the same setup on say CoD, MoH and Counter-Strike, you can setup the profile once and use it for all three.

There’s also a default windows profile that it will switch to automatically when you jump out of a game. That saves you the hassle of having to go into the mouse driver and do it yourself after every game.

The mouse has got an Easy Shift functionality which doubles the number of functions to 22, 11 without shift; seven buttons including the mouse wheel click, plus mouse wheel up/down/left/right, plus another 11 when shifted (one of the eight buttons must be assigned as the shift key.

The mouse also has a cool feature where you can preset a DPI and when you hold down a button, like say to use the scope and snipe someone the DPI will automatically drop to whatever you have it set to. Then when you release the button it goes back to the profile’s normal DPI all of which is selectable in the driver.software.