Tag archive: controller

Currently on display at London's Liverpool Street Station in relation to the release of Guinness Book Of World Records Gamer's Edition 2012, engineering students Benjamin Allen, Stephen van't Hof, and Michel Verhulst has created a working, twelve foot long Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller that's 30 times the size of a standard controller. Weighing approximately 265 pounds, the controller requires at least… Read More

Remember last year when N-Control came out with a clamp-on add-on for the standard Xbox 360 controller that added hair triggers and an analog stick for hard-core gaming enthusiasts? This year, N-Control is doing the same thing for the PlayStation 3, announcing the N-Control Avenger controller for the PlayStation 3 is available now in a limited edition. The idea is the same: the Avenger controller gloms onto the standard PS3 controller,… Read More

A week after E3, buzz about the Wii U certainly shows no signs of slowing. Nintendo has published a translation of CEO Satoru Iwata's E3 Q&A with analysts. The five pages are quite a read, but Iwata clarifies where Nintendo is coming from with its upcoming Wii U console, what audiences it plans to target, and some of its difficulties with the 3DS and Wii as of late. We've compiled three of the most interesting answers below,… Read More

If you're a fan of Nintendo, today has been a fun, exciting, and scary day for you. Once again, the house of Mario has decided to put its entire well being on the line for a completely new type of games controller. The question is: are they making a good bet? The jury is still out, and the lines to try out the Wii U at Nintendo's booth are so long that Nintendo has actually “closed” the entire Wii U section of their… Read More

The gaming peripheral manufacturer Razer, has a long and impressive history of creating some of the best PC gaming peripherals on the market. Many professional gamers swear by their products, and even those that don’t tend to respect the company. Now that same company that has become synonymous with PC gaming is heading to the console world, with the hopes of becoming the de facto third-party peripheral maker of choice. This week at CES,… Read More

Sony’s got a great problem on its hands. The recently released PlayStation Move controller is flying off shelves in North and Latin America and Europe faster than it can make them – and possibly silencing critics of motion-based gaming. Sony is reporting that it has shipped 2.5 million units of Move in its first month on the market and that at this rate, they won’t be able to keep shelves stocked. And there's no reason to think Move… Read More

It's been a while since we've heard from multi-room media-system maker Sonos, but the company hasn't exactly been sitting on its hands, rolling out an iPhone application that enables iPhone and iPod touch owners to control their Sonos systems with their favorite mobile devices. Now, the company has introduced the Sonos Controller 200, which ditches the iPod-like clickwheel interface of the previous controller for a 3.5-inch… Read More

Peripheral and accessories maker Logitech has announced its Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 systems…and like the earlier Premier Edition controller, it's compatible with all Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero World Tour games. The controller is designed to land at the high end of the fake-guitar universe, featuring a rosewood fretboard, a Floyd-Rose-esque whammy bar for players'… Read More

Now that Guitar Hero has proven its OK to make a single game that needs its very own unique controller to play, it looks as if other companies are taking the niche controller idea a step further. On Friday, newcomer Aptus Games took the lid off its Mini-Motion titles – a whole series of games that come with their own controllers, modeled after in-game equipment. The skateboarding game, for instance, will come with its own skateboard… Read More

If you've ever wished you could lean into the action a little bit more with your Tony Hawk titles—or just have dreams of hanging ten in a high-concept sci-fi surfing game—then a new announcement from Actiga should offer some excitment. The company has announced that its subsidiary QMotion has signed an agreement with Microsoft to produce next-generation wireless controllers for the Xbox 360. The controllers will be fully… Read More

Epson and E Ink have announced the development of a new controller for E Ink's electronic paper displays that will offer touchscreen-like capabilities. The development would mean that products using E Ink's electronic paper displays—like the Sony Reader and Amazon.com's Kindle—could offer onscreen interfaces like menus and buttons, and potentially even let users write notes directly on the display. The… Read More

Although last weeks’ Gamers Development Conference in San Francisco has now wrapped up, Sony apparently held over a few announcements from the show for this week, giving PlayStation fans new news on both upcoming bundles and the future of the Dualshock 3 controller on Tuesday. In a post on the official PlayStation blog, SCEA PR manager Al De Leon revealed that the Dualshock 3 controller, currently a Japanese-only release, will hit… Read More

“Are you ready to rock?!” That's the question Activision and thousands of Guitar Hero enthusiasts hope will be answered this Sunday, October 28, when the long-anticipated Guitar Heo III: Legends of Rock goes on sale in a multi-platform blitz encompassing the PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii, and the PlayStation 2. More than 3,000 U.S. retailers are expected to host midnight launch events,… Read More

It’s finally on its way. After almost a year of PlayStation 3 players trembling for their hands to tremble, Sony announced at this year’s Tokyo Game Show that the Dual Shock 3 rumbling controller will soon arrive. The announcement comes on the tail end of extensive litigation over alleged copyright infringement in the Dual Shock design. Sony ended up losing $97 million to Immersion, the rightful owners of the technology, but… Read More

Peripheral and accessory maker Logitech had announced it will make a ChillStream game controller for Sony's forthcoming Playstation 3 gaming console. Logitech's ChillStream technology is designed to keep gamer's hands cool, dry, and well-ventilated by incorporating a super-quiet 40 mm fan in the game controller; the fan can push as much as 3.41 cubic feet of air through three narrow vents on each side of the controller… Read More