Tag Archives: controllers

Jimmy Fallon plays ‘Killzone: Shadow Fall’ in first PS4 demo away from Sony’s stage

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Sony’s big PlayStation 4 event on Wednesday was highlighted by an extended playthrough of one of the new console’s launch titles, Killzone: Shadow Fall. While the game exhibited all the lovely graphical detail you’d expect fro…


Blizzard announces Diablo III for PS3 and PS4, as part of ‘strategic partnership’

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The biggest surprise of Sony’s PlayStation 4 event wasn’t even the PlayStation 4. Blizzard has just announced a strategic partnership with Sony, beginning with a port of Diablo III to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 game c…


NASA loses communication with International Space Station during software update (Update: restored)

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NASA says it lost communication with the International Space Station at 9:45AM ET this morning while flight controllers in Houston were working on updating the software for the station’s flight computerS. The space agency says…


90 Seconds on The Verge: PlayStation 4, ‘House of Cards,’ and monkeys (maybe not) in space

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The next PlayStation has three touch screens, six processors, 17 cores, and five Bluetooths. It supports six controllers each with three touch screens (totaling 18 touch screens in all), three clouds (in case two clouds break …


Joyride to joystick: Atari controller custom-built from car seat adjuster (video)

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So you’ve survived the robot revolution and you’re waiting for either a full-blown apocalypse, or Mr. Anderson. But how are you going to kill time when our new masters are eating controller PCBs for breakfast? With a steampunk joystick, of course. Ja…


Garmin multi-sensor controller concept replaces touchscreen interface with in-console dial rig

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Garmin may be in the early stages of navigating its way from the narrow roads of portable GPS to the in-car infotainment highway, but the company appears to be on the right path, directing focus away from dedicated compact devices and towards permane…


Alternative Wii U controller design makes brief appearance on Twitter, goes into hiding

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Excited for Nintendo’s new tablet-esque controller? So are the kids in TT Games’ QA department. An over-excited tester tweeted out an image of a slightly different Wii U slab than the one we laid hands on at E3 2011, teasing “look we what we have at …


Nintendo patent application lends a look at Wii U’s core technology, add-ons too

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Little did we know that, just two months after we were trying the Wii U for ourselves, Nintendo was busy patenting nearly everything its unique game console would have to offer. A pair of just-published US Patent Office applications filed last August…


Epic Mickey 2 controllers invoke the power of the brush, are made for you and me

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Do you like your M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E with a side of eXtreme? So do the developers at Junction Point, which is why a sequel to the mouse’s first Epic is on its way. But the impending release of that title’s not all grown-up Mouseketeers-cum-gamers ha…


Neonode zForce uses infrared LEDs to measure pressure, replace capacitive touch (hands-on)

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Smartphone fanatics may recall the Neonode N2 — a rather unique recall-plagued feature phone that ultimately resulted in the demise of the company’s handset arm. Neonode is still a major player in the portable device market, but may be more familiar …