As controllers continue to become more advanced in pursuit of competition-level gaming, those who prefer to stick to the sidelines may not be as interested in top-of-the-line options. Some gamers may ...

Video games are defined by their ability to let the player freely influence and control an aspect of the game they are playing, and for console games the bottleneck for this player freedom is the ...

Discover the process of building a custom mobile game controller equipped with physical triggers to transform your smartphone ...

Researchers from ATLAS Institute’s ACME Lab presented one pictorial and two graduate student symposium papers at the 14th ACM Creativity & Cognition (C&C), which took place June 20-23 in Venice, Italy ...

Since the inception of video games in the 1970s, games and video game consoles have evolved with each generation. As a result, the controllers we use to play those games have changed to adapt with ...

Backbone just released a new Pro version of its Xbox controller. This one has Bluetooth and a bunch of other upgraded ...

From Xbox to Nintendo, gamepads tend to have a similar set of face buttons. A, B, X, and Y are the choice de rigueur. Early consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) used A and B buttons, ...

When it comes to game controllers, there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. For every good step forward in controller design, there are a dozen dead ends. Some devices may work very well, but ...

We have to hand it to Atari for keeping it simple but functional early on. A lot of competing consoles around now tried to get crazy with controllers, adding things like number pads and spinning dials ...

Gamevice makes controllers that clip onto an iPhone or iPad to transform them into portable gaming consoles, but their clunky design leaves space for improvement. Gamevice was among the first ...

A new prototype video games controller has been produced by a US research team that "pulls and stretches" the thumb tips to simulate sensations, such as the "recoil of a gun" or "tug of a fishing line ...

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