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Check Out The World’s Largest Working NES Controller

Students at a Dutch university on Tuesday unveiled what they claim is the world’s largest working Nintendo Entertainment System controller, some 30 times bigger than the console’s actual game pad. It’s so big, the only way to manipulate the D-pad or buttons is to stand on them


April 12, 2011
In Real Life

This Coffee Table Is A Giant Working Nintendo Controller

The original Nintendo Entertainment System controller is a thing of beauty, an exercise in simple elegance and efficiency. Apparently that’s exactly what Reddit user Cybergern’s friend Jocke was looking for in a coffee table, so he built this.


March 11, 2011
PC

The Absurd Motion-Sensing, Keyboard-Packing, Gamepad

Veho’s Mimi Wifi Keyboard & AirMouse with Game Controller gizmo looks as clunky as it sounds.


December 3, 2010
In Real Life

This Xbox 360 Controller Mod Concept Has Cash Written All Over It

Shades of the Nintendo 64 pipe, this Xbox controller pipe loses points for being nothing more than a nut placed over the guide button, but gains points for the non-smoker’s uncanny resemblance to a young George W. Found on Flickr.


November 4, 2010

What We Loved, What We Hated About The Xbox 360 Kinect

Microsoft calls it a new console, but the Kinect is really a fresh coat of paint for the Xbox 360, promising to deliver not just motion gaming, but controller-free gaming to the masses.


October 1, 2010
News

Does A Programmable Wireless Xbox Controller Count As Cheating?

Datel’s completely unauthorised TurboFire2 wireless Xbox 360 controller not only directly connects to the Xbox 360 without a dongle, you can connect it to your PC to apply “custom controller enhancements”. Microsoft should sue! Oh wait.


September 24, 2010
News

This Is The Official Final Fantasy XIV PC Controller

While Final Fantasy XIV works splendidly with a wired Microsoft controller, it does not exactly scream “Final Fantasy”. One can hear this official Final Fantasy XIV controller from Sunflex screaming from a mile away.


August 21, 2010
News

Manhandling Goldeneye’s Golden Controller

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This is the officially licensed golden Goldeneye Wii Classic controller, which you too can play with if you pick up the special edition of Goldeneye 007.


March 9, 2010
News

Three-Year-Old Kills Herself With Game Controller-Shaped Gun

A three-year-old in Wilson County, Tennessee died Sunday evening after accidentally shooting herself in the abdomen with a weapon she may have mistaken for a plastic Wii facsimile.


January 13, 2010

Razer Reinvents, Perfects The Xbox 360 Controller

The second to last thing I was expecting to be writing about my visit to Razer’s CES booth was an Xbox 360 controller. The last thing? That I like it more than Microsoft’s version.