Sony's touchscreen controller patent could be used to combat the "drawbacks" of fixed button and stick configurations.

In 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) redefined home gaming, but its innovations meant nothing without a way to ...

Sony has obtained a US patent for a special controller with a touchscreen that lets players choose where the buttons should ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The reason that the Xbox Series X controller does not feature swappable D-pads is because it ...

The Nintendo Switch's Joy-Cons offer a lot of flexibility in how the system can be played, letting you use them while the switch is docked, in handheld mode, or even propped up on a flat surface. They ...

With a D-pad, better ergonomics, and programmable rear buttons, and no joystick drift (so far), the Split Pad Pro is almost the perfect cure for the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con drift. The Split Pad Pro ...

Those who aren’t fans of shooters, however, needn’t worry. Aoki and his team pinged many different developers — large and small — of different genres to get their feedback on the DualShock 4. Although ...

After covering 8BitDo’s Pro 2 Controller last year, I genuinely thought that was probably the best third-party pad we were going to get for a while. Well, it looks like I was wrong about that. The ...