We have to hand it to Atari for keeping it simple but functional early on. A lot of competing consoles around now tried to get crazy with controllers, adding things like number pads and spinning dials ...

Although the basic form of the video game controller hasn’t changed much since the Xbox 360, innovations in how players interact with games are still alive. It just comes in the form of elite-style ...

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In conversations about gaming, we tend to focus on the games and the consoles we play them on. The controllers we use are a vehicle for the experiences we have, but our eyes are always centred on what ...

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 ...