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Geek turns Sega Saturn joystick into Transformer-style bug

, Oct 16th 2009 Discuss [0]

I am a big fan of people with way more time to play than I have who take things and turn them into things you might not expect. A guy named James Ian Killinger has taken a Sega Saturn flight controller and hacked the controller into a transforming bug-like device. Read The Full Story

Mad Catz unveils distressed wireless Telecaster controller for Rock Band

, Oct 8th 2009 Discuss [1]

I've never understood the appeal of things that are distressed. To me distressed just means it is time to replace something. If my shoes get distressed I buy new ones, the same thing with my game controllers. Mad Catz has unveiled a new guitar controller for Rock Band on the Xbox 360 that is a distressed Fender Telecaster. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Xbox 360 holiday bundles announced

, Sep 29th 2009 Discuss [0]

Microsoft have announced two gaming bundles for the upcoming holiday season, one including their Xbox 360 and the other intended for those who already own the console.  The Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle pairs the console with two games, LEGO Batman and Pure, and is priced at $299. Read The Full Story

Project Natal unlikely to be backward-compatible with existing 360 games

, Sep 28th 2009 Discuss [0]

Microsoft has confirmed that it's unlikely existing games will be compatible with their upcoming Project Natal motion-controller for the Xbox 360, suggesting that developers would in effect need to push out fully reworked versions of titles rather than merely issue a compatibility patch.  The news came courtesy of Microsoft Games' Kudo Tsunoda, speaking at the Tokyo Game Show, who confirmed that the company had been forced to significantly alter code in the games they used to demonstrate Project Natal. Read The Full Story

Sony PS3 Motion Controller coming Spring 2010

, Sep 24th 2009 Discuss [1]

Sony have come clean with some more details regarding its upcoming Motion Controller, while Joystiq managed to snap a shot of the movement-tracking peripheral at the company's Tokyo Game Show keynote.  According to Sony, the controller - which may well be renamed before launch next year - should meet the "stringent" demands of hardcore gamers, thanks to its combination of two motion sensors, three axes gyroscope and three axes accelerometer. Read The Full Story

Next-gen Wii in 2011 suggests Square Enix chief

, Sep 21st 2009 Discuss [0]

Nintendo regularly quash Wii HD rumors, but they keep on coming back.  Latest to reignite the speculation is none other than Square Enix chief Yoichi Wada, who has stuck his neck out and suggested 2011 as the launch window for the reworked console.  Wada tips the new Wii HD as having many of the features as the Xbox 360 and PS3, to which we're assuming he's referring to media-centric functionality. Read The Full Story

Hercules DJ Control MP3e2: bring Ibiza to your bedroom

, Sep 11th 2009 Discuss [1]

The "sensation" of Pro DJ'ing is surely staying up to 4am, packed into a mixing booth before a sea of heaving, ketamine-fuelled bodies swinging their arms rapturously, while your ear-drums are slowly pounded out of existence by far more bass than is medically advisable.  Unfortunately, Hercules seem to have decided that their version of that sensation is actually all about tweaking your MP3s into digital mixes, and with that in mind they've launched their latest DJ control surface, the MP3e2. Read The Full Story

Logitech unveil Drum and Guitar controllers for Wii and Xbox 360

, Sep 9th 2009 Discuss [0]

Logitech have unwrapped their latest wireless music controllers, joining up the dots on a range which now serves PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.  The new Logitech Wireless Drum Controller and Guitar Controller for Nintendo Wii, and Wireless Drum Controller for Xbox 360, are each intended to be used with Guitar Hero. Read The Full Story

DJ Hero controller gets FCC teardown, flaunts manual

, Aug 28th 2009 Discuss [0]

Poorly framed, low-quality photo?  Non-descript but brightly colored background?  It can only mean one thing: the FCC's team of crack photographers have been at it again, and in this case it's the DJ Hero controller that has born the brunt of their traditional teardown. Read The Full Story

Nintendo football controller patent app emerges

, Aug 25th 2009 Discuss [0]

Nintendo's inflatable horse controller not good enough for you?  The company's latest controller patent application has come to light, and as you might expect it's another bizarre, exceptionally-niche device.  Basically a squishy football with slots for your Wiimote and nunchuck, the controller would allow the Wii to estimate trajectory and distance from the force and angle with which you pretend to throw it. Read The Full Story

Sony PS3 Slim still sold at a loss; Motion-controller coming spring 2010

, Aug 25th 2009 Discuss [0]

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai has confirmed that the company will continue to lose money on each of the $299 PS3 Slim consoles they sell, together with revealing that Sony's motion-controller has been pencilled in for a release in spring 2010.  Meanwhile he also denied that, with the advent of the UMD-free PSP Go, we are seeing "the death of physical media", pointing to the large percentage of the 100 countries Sony sells gaming products in that don't have access to high-speed internet connections for downloads. Read The Full Story

iBUYPOWER USB IES Controller announced

, Aug 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

iBUYPOWER revealed a new USB Internal Expansion System or IES Controller today that's proprietary to the company and offers a significant power boost to the USB ports and card readers on PCs. Read The Full Story
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