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USB Metal Game Pad for NES on your PC

By Emily Price on Monday, Aug 25th 2008 1 Comment

If you still long for the good old days of SNES, now you can relive them on your home computer with a new and updated controller. The “USB Metal Game Pad” is a USB controller for your PC that is created in the style of the old SNES controllers.

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Xbox 360 Arcade may come with motion controller

By Emily Price on Monday, Aug 25th 2008 1 Comment

xboxarcade The Xbox 360 Arcade bundle may be packaged with a motion controller and some motion controlled mini games. The bundle, which is expected to be released this holiday season is expected to be in direct competition with the Wii.

Xbox 360 Fanboy received a tip from someone “close to Microsoft’s marketing department” that claims the new Xbox 360 Arcade will come packaged with the motion controller as well as the motion controlled mini games developed by Rare.

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Logitech announces the Speed Force Wireless Racing Wheel for Wii

By Emily Price on Thursday, Aug 21st 2008 No Comments

wiiwheel Logitech has announced the new Logitech Speed Force Wireless racing wheel for the Wii. The wheel will be the first force feedback wheel for the Wii and is designed to work with EA Games Need for Speed Undercover.

The Speed Force Wireless racing wheel has a once-piece design with built-in gas and brake controls located on the wheel itself. The wheel has an expandable lap rest so you can adjust the wheel for how you like to play your games. The wheel uses 2.4 GHz wireless technology to allow to gaming up to 30 feet away from the actual Wii console.

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Sony unveils wireless PS3 keypad

By Emily Price on Thursday, Aug 21st 2008 2 Comments

Sony unveiled a wireless keypad for the PS3 at their press conference at the Leipzig Games Convention. The keypad will attach to the top of an existing Playstation 3 SINAXIS or DUALSHOCK wireless controller and will give gamers access to a full keyboard.

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Microsoft to update Xbox 360 controller

By Emily Price on Wednesday, Aug 20th 2008 No Comments

Microsoft has confirmed a small revision to its Xbox 360 controller design. The new controller will have enhancements to the controllers’ d-pad and will only be available in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

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Wii Sqweeze controller for Wii

By Emily Price on Tuesday, Aug 19th 2008 No Comments

InterAction Laboratories recently did a demo of their new Wii Sqweeze for the Wii. The device was demonstrated using a bow hunting PC game, but the company expects it to be ready for the Wii in early 2009.

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Trumpet MIDI Controller blows, in a good way

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 8th 2008 No Comments

Instruments where you are required to blow surprisingly strongly into one end have always entertained me, so it’s with curiosity that I look at Thomas Craig and Bradley Factor’s Trumpet MIDI Controller. Built as part of a Cornell University project, the device allows trumpeters to control either musical input from the trumpet itself, or control other devices such as synthesizers, by natural playing.

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ASUS Eee Stick announcement conveniently forgets Wiimote

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 6th 2008 No Comments

Someone really needs to schedule the people at ASUS some off-duty time, as they’ve obviously missed a great deal in the electronic entertainment world while distracted by all those Eees. The company has officially announced their new Eee Stick wireless controllers, and in a moment of bizarrely blinkered hyperbole have described them as a “First-of-its-kind Wireless Controller”.

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The PS3 Xbox Controller mod

By Abby McVay on Friday, Aug 1st 2008 5 Comments

Back in April Ben Heck modded a PS3 controller to fit inside of an Xbox 360 one. Well now he’s decided to flip that and cram an Xbox 360 controller inside of a PS3 one.

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NES clone all inside of an NES Controller

By Abby McVay on Thursday, Jul 17th 2008 No Comments

mnes There have been a few NES controller mods, but one modder managed to fit a famiclone inside of his. The mod was made specifically for his girlfriend for her birthday, since she is a big NES fan. Which also means he was a little more thorough to make sure it was right just for her.

The famiclone comes with several built-in games, so many actually that he was extremely disappointed when he couldn’t manage to play them all before giving it to his girlfriend. With the controller itself, by using the 2nd player control port you can also use a Lightgun.

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