Tag: controller
Sony unveils useless feature – use a full-size PS3 controller on your PSP
You might have to humour me a little here – I’m not a console gamer. I love PC gaming, but I’m not a fan of trying to control first person shooters with a joypad. Yes, even Goldeneye on the N64. I know, I know, I’m a heathen.
But even thinking through the mind of a console gamer, I completely fail to see the point of using a joypad to control the PSP – which is essentially just a joypad with a screen on anyway…
Gyration Air Mouse launching in the UK
Movea has announced that its Gyration Air Mouse, which allows control of a PC both with and without a flat surface to work on, is coming soon to the UK.
When you’ve a desk in front of you, its laser-guided precision tracking works just like a normal mouse. However, when you’re away from your desk, or feel like waving something around in the air while actually getting something useful done, its MotionSense technology provides precise in-air motion tracking. Giving the mouse quick flicks with the wrist can advance presentations, control multimedia, start and stop effects, change audio volume or TV channel, and more…
New D-pad for the new green Xbox 360 controller
It’s not the much-rumoured motion-sensing controller, but the ol’ Xbox 360 pad is about to get an upgrade in the form of a lick of paint and a new D-pad. The new controller has been “optimized” for Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer series, and should make the d-pad a more viable option for controlling games that make use of it…
Sony planning ANOTHER PS3 controller? Two-piece "breakable" motion concept ready to be shown
Sony is planning to clone Nintendo’s Wiimote, astonishingly, with a two-piece motion controller for PlayStation3 almost ready to be unveiled – and the DualShock3 isn’t even out in Europe yet.
The PS3 concept currently resembles a traditional PlayStation controller, only with the ability to snap apart into two pieces – each with a motion-detecting accelerometer inside it, just like the popular wavy Wii controller…
Japanese Club Nintendo members make us green with envy over their Super Famicom controllers
Oh man! This is yet another reason to rack up in our massive list of Why We Should Move To Japan.
The Japanese members of Club Nintendo are getting a little treat this month, SNES (or Super Famicom) controllers! It’s for recreating those nostalgic moments when playing Virtual Console games like Street Fighter II and…
Motus Darwin motion-based gaming controller a nice alternative to the Wii-mote
If the Xbox 360 and Wii ever had a baby, this is what would pop from the Wii’s loins – the Motus Darwin controller for non-Ninty consoles. Yup, including the PC.
With motion-based technology, it gives those who can’t manage to track down a Wii the chance to control games by waving it in the air just like a Wii-mote. Originally designed to compliment a Motus game, iClub, it can…
Man invented the Nintendo Wii eight years ago, in his underpants, using a Dreamcast
This footage is, allegedly, of an ex-Midway developer. Using his Dreamcast, his glorious, beautiful Dreamcast, he pretty much designed and built a control system identical to that which now powers the Nintendo Wii’s little motion sensitive remote. Only this was built back in the year 2000, when Nintendo was a distant third place in the console race thanks to no one really being that bothered about the N64 and its Gamecube still a distant dream that wouldn’t flop onto European shelves until 2002.
Here is some actual, visual proof – as if more was needed! – that Dreamcast was way ahead of its time and a misunderstood victim that deserved so much better:
Massive NES controller, demands loving hands of BFG, likes moonlit walks on beaches…
The Nintendo mods are flying thick and fast, with a huge NES controller containing the console inside accompanying the tempting Familator we saw earlier.
Take a look above for…
Belkin's n52te SpeedPad for those of you still married to Quake III
The new SpeedPad is designed for people who use their PCs for something other than slagging strangers off in internet forums. It is for gaming. Gaming 3.0!
Or, it’s an odd combination of mouse and keyboard, designed with 15 programmable hotkeys…
DualShock 3 revealed – PlayStation3 FINALLY gets a rumbling controller
At last night’s Tokyo Game Show, Sony Japan’s head man Kaz Hirai surprised precisely no one by revealing DualShock 3 – the rumbling version of the PlayStation3’s SIXAXIS controller.
Looking exactly the same as PS3’s existing controller only feeling substantially heavier…
