dualshock
PlayStation

Hideous Custom Red Dead Redemption Controllers Were The Reward For Doing Something Good

For winning the Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition PSN event Rockstar Games held on November 18, Florida’s Alvin Ogando walked away with a pair of custom PlayStation 3 controllers that look like someone tossed them in a clothes dryer with a black Sharpie. Congratulations?

September 6, 2011
PlayStation

Japan Gets Official Uncharted 3 Control Pad

On November 2, the same day the game is released, Japan will be getting this fancy, limited edition DualShock 3 bearing the colours and livery of upcoming action game Uncharted 3.

June 28, 2011
PlayStation

The Evolution Of The PlayStation Control Pad

It’s perhaps the most iconic design in the world of game controllers, and definitely the longest-serving. Today in Total Recall, we look back at over 15 years of PlayStation control pads.

April 18, 2011
PlayStation

Imagining What Sony’s Next Controller (And Its Box) Will Look Like

My dork tendencies run a little… stranger than most. While I enjoy looking at things like mock-ups of new control pads, for example, I prefer looking at a mock-up of the packaging for said controller.

December 17, 2010
News

PS3 Seamheads Get A Custom Controller When MLB 11 Arrives

To go with its new analogue controls, MLB 11 The Show is going on a new controller – this baseball-themed DualShock, timed to release with the game on March 8.

September 22, 2010
In Real Life

Pink DualShocks? They’re For Girls!

Or so implies the latest email from the folks at PlayStation, who are clearly aware that pink plastic video game accessories are not cross-gender compatible. As seen in my email inbox.

August 26, 2010
In Real Life

What Do The Buttons On The PlayStation Controller Mean?

The buttons on PlayStation controllers have always been a bit of a mystery. Why those weird colours? Why those wacky shapes? PlayStation designer Teiyu Goto explains.

August 24, 2010
In Real Life

DualShock Coffee Table Does Not Support Motion Control

Kotaku AU

The best Year 12 Industrial Technology project you’ll ever see, as seen on Overclockers Australia.

August 5, 2010
In Real Life

The Beautiful Anatomy Of A Video Game Controller

What lies beneath the plastic skin of your PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 controllers? If concept artist Mads Peitersen was designing the gamepads we play with, they’d be bony, fleshy living things with teeth.

June 30, 2010
In Real Life

The Evolution Of Game Controllers

Scott Johnson chronicles the long strange trip from Pong paddle to motion-sensed human, leaving the commentary up to you. As seen on ExtraLife. Thanks, Jon!

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