If there’s one thing that developers absolutely must get right when designing a video game console, it’s the controllers. If they muck up the controller design by making it unwieldy, cumbersome, or ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Video games are all about controlling the on-screen action of your television via some kind of input device. A console can live and die by the features of its controller. The Nintendo 64 controller, ...

Video game consoles have their own controllers for you to use, and more often than not, they end up looking pretty generic. Sure, there are color variations and some game-themed controllers, but for ...

Valve’s Steam Controller is an input device designed to expand control options for PC gaming. It features customizable trackpads, magnetic thumbsticks and capacitive grip sensors, allowing players to ...

Unlock the hidden features of your Steam Controller by mastering action layers, subcommands, and virtual menu sensitivity settings.

The Ohsnap Mcon doesn’t just rethink the mobile gaming controller — it practically throws the old playbook in the trash, delivering one of the most flexible and genuinely portable ways to play on the ...

From Xbox to Nintendo, gamepads tend to have a similar set of face buttons. A, B, X, and Y are the choice de rigueur. Early consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) used A and B buttons, ...

A brand-new Xbox controller has been officially revealed, and it offers professional-level tech for a fraction of the usual price.

Andrew McLarney is a Writer at DualShockers and GameRant who has been covering games professionally since 2022. A UK-based science-fiction and adventure-horror writer, he covers news, guides, lists, ...