It's been a while since we let our fingers loose on Corsair's original FPS gaming keyboard, the Vengeance K60, but ever since, we've been eager to get our hands on a second-generation successor.

You see, the company's first effort had its merits - the sturdy and beautiful aluminium frame being top of the list - but there was obvious room for improvement. Reviewers and users alike lamented the lack of a full mechanical layout (the function keys, remember, were of the rubber-dome variety), and some were put off by the absence of backlit keys.