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Microsoft Reveals New 360 Controller With Transforming D-Pad

The Xbox 360 controller gets a little more fighter-friendly later this year, with a new version featuring a transforming d-pad and monochrome buttons hitting stores on November 9. So what’s a transforming d-pad?


January 5, 2009
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Modder Building a Better D-Pad

The limitations of the 360′s D-pad are well known (and well trolled). This modder’s building a D-pad with eight individual switches so that when he hits a diagonal, dammit, he hits a diagonal.


October 18, 2007
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The Near-Collapsing D-Pad Jack-o’-Lantern

We’re seeing orange! Glowing orange!! We’ve gone batty for pumpkins!!! Reader Andy sends us this, writing:

This thing was a pain in the neck to carve, trying to keep it from collapsing.

Ephemeral just like the flame that burns so brightly in the crisp fall night. Beautiful!