Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In the annals of gaming history, there’s no controller better known than the three-pronged piece of plastic that ...

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There was not a point between 2013 and today where we were not working on controller inputs,” Valve programmer Pierre-Loup ...

At my desk, with the PC buzzing beside me, my games are one of my few comforts. They are rarely comfortable. My desk is a ...

If you’ve played any kind of flight simulator before, you know using a joystick is way more fun than using any other kind of controller. Certainly, more fun than a console controller, which is ...

Gyro controls offer a lot of control to the player, but it lacks boundaries. Joysticks have a 'gate' that imposes these boundaries on the player so that you can only go so far, or easily find center.

A few days ago, this post showcasing 3D-printed thumbsticks for the HTC Vive controllers rocketed to the front page of Reddit. While the Vive controllers offer excellent positional tracking, they use ...

Ball and socket linkages make for smooth operation. People making DIY controls to enhance flight simulators is a vibrant niche of engineering and hackery, and it sure looks like Microsoft Flight ...

Aeryon sUAS have always been easy to use and control, but in certain applications finer positioning control is a requirement. Now, with the Aeryon Joystick Controller, pilots who need it, can have ...

Dublin-based startup Joyst Instruments is launching a new MIDI controller called the JV-1 next month on Kickstarter that sports a bunch of gamer-style thumb joysticks up top for creating expressive ...