This may be hard for my colleagues and friends to believe, but I actually regularly use my Stream Deck. A little box with reprogrammable buttons that sits alongside your keyboard and mouse, I’ve found it a handy way of getting to certain tabs, to start and stop recording, and for generally being a bit more productive. Though the likes of the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless had buttons that could work like a Stream Deck, we hadn’t received a mouse with a direct Stream Deck button…until now.
Corsair has announced the Nightsword v2 Wireless for Computex 2026, which is, in all other ways, a pretty standard gaming mouse. For $130, you get a 33K DPI sensor and 8,000 Hz polling (wired and wireless), though the 89 g weight is a little heavy. However, its standout feature is that dedicated Stream Deck button.
Instead of making the button perform a specific control or open a specific tab (like individual buttons on a Stream Deck), it opens up a small digital panel on your monitor, which then gives you a few pre-chosen controls to pick from. In the example shown on the website, someone playing Arc Raiders opens a Stream Deck tab in-game and uses the mouse to go to their backpack and map.
In this use case, it seems less efficient than simply using a keyboard—but I do see the vision. If your keyboard controls are already overwhelmed, the Nightsword could be a solid pick. And that’s before getting to more complex control. I use my Stream Deck to open some apps or get me to specific pages, which is more involved than simply clicking ‘I’ or ‘M’.
Still, given that the button is placed just below the two left side buttons on the controller, I’m not entirely convinced I wouldn’t accidentally misclick and open up my inventory by accident.
I suppose that all depends on how well-positioned the button is in practice, how easy it is to click, and how comfortable the mouse is.
Corsair has been trying to integrate the Stream Deck ecosystem into more devices for a while now, and we even saw a built-in Stream Deck in the Corsair Galleon 100 SD earlier this year. In its latest release, Corsair says it is expanding ‘its gaming ecosystem’ with this mouse and a few more bits of hardware.
The company has also announced the Clipper Pro Mini, which is a 60% keyboard with Hall effect switches, rapid trigger, and 8,000 Hz polling, for $100. Finally, Corsair has announced the HS35 v3, a wireless gaming headset with 50 mm neodymium drivers and a 30-hour battery life for $80.
The keyboard and headset do seem decently priced, which is a nice surprise for Computex this year.