gamepad
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The Backbone One Smartphone Controller Is Getting A Sleek PlayStation Facelift
The Backbone One controller is one of the best ways to unleash your smartphone’s gaming potential, and Backbone today revealed the third iteration of the gamepad (after the original iPhone and Android versions), featuring a major facelift that looks right at home alongside the PlayStation 5’s stark white DualSense controller.
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I Miss the GameCube WaveBird, the Best Controller Nintendo Ever Made
The video game industry has more or less settled on a standard design for controllers with a pair of matching analogue joysticks, a directional pad, four action buttons, and shoulder triggers on top. It’s a design that the PlayStation DualShock controller popularised, but one that I genuinely feel Nintendo perfectly executed on the GameCube WaveBird…
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The Most Cursed Video Game Controllers Of All Time
If companies weren’t ever willing to think outside the box and take risks with new products, we’d have never gotten such innovative devices like the Sony Walkman, the Nintendo Wii, or even the Apple iPod. But innovation isn’t always a good thing, and for every weird controller like the Wiimote that wins over consumers, there’s…
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You Can Play Switch With Your PS5, Xbox, And Other ‘Unsupported’ Controllers
The Nintendo Switch offers several play styles, an advantage of its hybrid console/handheld nature. You can play docked and connected to your TV, or portably in handheld or tabletop modes. The Switch also supports a number of first and third-party controller options out of the box. These options make finding a comfortable setup easy —…