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Gaming on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad is nothing short of awesome. The on-screen controls mean the sky’s the limit. At the same time, the lack of any tactile feedback sucks. That’s where the iControlPad comes into play. Physical gaming accessories in controller form have been a long time coming for Apple’s iDevices. And with the first one out of the gate, many more will hopefully follow.
Focusing on the iControlPad itself, this slide-on case/controller features everything to make your mobile gaming geek go nuts — D-Pad, buttons galore, analog nubs, and two rear buttons. But even better is the fact that the deceives firmware is upgradeable as to cater to new games of the future which can make use of different buttons and game profiles, and a built-in battery for charging your iDevice.
At $74.99, it’s not exactly impulse buy cheap. But I’m pretty sure those of you who really enjoy gaming know the value of something such as the iControlPad, and as such, won’t hesitate to drop the required cash. **If you’re interested, you better hurry. The company is only going to build and ship 3,000 units during the first run.
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How awesome would it have been to blow away ducks, kill King Koopa, and chase down that big Ape called Donkey Kong all while having your hands massaged with the gentle oscillations of a spinning piece of metal? My oh my. A vibrating NES controller, you have my heart. I just wish you had it 20 years ago. If only…if only…
- September 9, 2010 7:15 am
You can go to any audio/electronic store and find some kind of synth in which you can drop a small fortune on. But why spend so much when something so great can be had for pennies…well…3,000 penies? Nerds who want to really show off their roots and knock out a few awesome digital beats to boot need this — the NES Controller Synth.
As you can see, it’s a synthesizer jammed inside of controller. Crazy, I know. But hey, they sound pretty awesome. You can claim one for yourself by heading over to Michael Rucci’s Etsy Shop and plunkering down $30. Hop inside for a video showing it all off…
Gun controllers have been around for ages. My first taste of shooting games came way back in the day with the NES and Dunk Hunt. Many of you out there may share the same basic start to your gaming/shooting days. Those were the days, weren’t they? But we’ve moved on since those laughingly fake plastic gun days to this: The PS3 Assault Rifle.
The new PS3 controller is meticulously designed to give the gamer the look and feel of Modern Warfare 2, though the gun will work with any PS3 game with the provided USB wireless dongle. It’s interactive gaming to the max.
You see, my biggest peeve with the Wii is that the games basically suck. The graphics suck. And therefore, the overall immersion experience sucks. I want to be made to believe I’m really in the game. With the PS3′s graphics, a sick home theater, and this handy dandy Assault Rifle controller, I’ll be more in the game than ever.
Look for the PS3 Assault Rifle to drop August 2nd for a rather reasonable $65 USD.
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What console does that controller belong to? At first, you may be inclined to judge this book by it’s cover. Until the PS button pops out at you. In actuality, this is a heavily redesigned PS3 controller.
If there was one thing about the PS3′s controller I’d find fault with, it would the ergonomics of it all. It’s simply not a very comfortable controller to hold and use for extended periods of time. On the other end of the scale you have the Xbox 360 controller that is leaps and bounds better at “fitting in the hand”. Why not combine the two?
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So motion-based gaming nuts have probably woken up this fine Monday morning already well aware that Project Natal has officially been ousted with the name “Kinect”. And….that’s it.
Due out this November, Kinect is undoubtedly Microsoft’s answer to motion recognition gaming that the Wii has been excelling at for several years now. I personally never got into the Wii or the whole fascination with waving controllers around in the air. Perhaps I’m the odd man out.
Is anyone else out there less thrilled than I am about Kinect…?
If you were cool, you would make an exoskeleton out of LEGOs that you could put on and wear around like a total nerd. Or, you could take that LEGO exoskeleton and go above and beyond by adding in actual “intelligent” motors that would mimic your hands every movement. That’s what David Hyman did anyway.
His LEGO Exoskeleton hand is built out of 100% LEGOs yet powered by an external hand controller that will follow every motion his real hand makes. If that’s not bleepin’ cool I don’t know what is. Alright — race is is on to see who can build the first full body LEGO exoskeleton!
Tinkers in the whole modding scene will know that it isn’t your cute nickname that gets you street cred, it’s what you do that matters. That’s probably a good thing for Nintendo Age forum member “Bunnyboy” whose name is questionable, but his acts of kindness upon nerd kingdom are worth their weight in gold.
Using the guts of an old Gameboy and the case of an NES game, BunnyBoy created a masterpiece — an adapter to play Gameboy games on the big screen!
It’s really as simple as that — a GameBoy in a cartridge with some handy language translating going on in the controller, turning all of those NES commands into GameBoy friendly, button mashing fun.
In case you were wondering, you can get your very own GameBoy/NES cartridge for a cool $130. It may seem like a rather hefty chunk of change for the technology involved, but each cartridge is made to order. Anyone biting?
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Ok, this is hands down the coolest iPhone/iPad app I’ve seen yet. It’s called Chopper2. And the coolest thing about it is that you can use your iPhone (and I presume iPod Touch as a remote control attached via Bluetooth to your iPad. It’s definitely an interesting implementation of how to interact with the iPad…
