Tag: controllers

20 JAN

How Air Traffic Controllers Are Feeling the Dismal Effects of the Shutdown

How Air Traffic Controllers Feel the Effects of the Shutdown Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does […]

13 DEC

French Air Traffic Controllers Plan Strike During Pre-Holiday Rush

French Air Traffic Controllers Plan Pre-Holiday Strike Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include all […]

28 OCT

25 Best Nintendo Switch Accessories (Holiday 2018): Controllers, Screen Protectors, Etc

Have a Nintendo Switch? You really should get some of these accoutrements. We list the best chargers, screen protectors, cases, stands, controllers, adapters, and more. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a94bf7e1781756588507498/master/pass/SW_PlayStand_1__25146.1488586958.jpg

20 OCT

HTC’s standalone Vive Focus will soon get 6DoF VR controllers

While Facebook’s Oculus Quest won’t arrive until the spring of 2019, its seemingly beefier inside-out tracking plus 6DoF controllers may already pose a threat to HTC’s Vive Focus, as well as to other Vive Wave-based standalone VR headsets — including Pico’s Neo (whose ultrasound-based 6DoF controllers are still missing) and the more recent G2. As […]

26 SEP

PC gamers like using controllers more than you might think

While PC gamers enjoy many benefits over using a console, the latest Steam stats released by Valve show there’s a shared appreciation for one thing: console gamepads. According to Valve, since 2015 when it released an update allowing players to map gamepad inputs to any combination a game understands, over 30 million of its players […]

14 SEP

New NES controllers headline announcement-filled Nintendo Switch presentation

Nintendo After a delay in light of a Japanese earthquake, Nintendo’s latest Direct video presentation finally went live on Thursday evening, and it included confirmations of long-rumored games and ports for the Nintendo Switch—along with a surprise NES controller pack launching next week. Coming September 18, the same day as the new paid Nintendo Switch […]

15 JUL

Watch how Valve’s Knuckles controllers work with Lone Echo and Fallout 4 VR

Here’s a video of one of VR’s best games being played with its most promising new controllers. Brian Lindenhof, a VR developer best known for his work on Climbey, has uploaded a video of him playing Ready at Dawn’s Oculus Rift exclusive, Lone Echo, using the Revive app. The new controllers, which were shipped out to […]

13 MAY

Valve switches on Steam Controller’s mobile connection in beta

Valve’s latest beta client activates the Steam Controller’s Bluetooth Low Energy function — a necessary feature if you want to use the gamepad to play on a mobile device in the near future. If you’ll recall, the company recently announced that Steam Link will be able beam games to the dedicated iOS and Android apps […]