This week's hardware IRL keeps us indoors and out of the sun. UK Bureau Chief Mat Smith replaced his elderly in-box PS4 DualShock with Hori's Onyx, the first licensed third-party wireless controller to land, though it's no longer the only one. After...
Denise Chaudhari had never touched a gamepad before stepping onto Microsoft's campus as a contractor. The first woman to join the Xbox team, Chaudhari had studied ergonomics and industrial design at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design but d...
It's not often we see a shoe that appeals to both the sneakerhead and gamer communities. But Nike managed to do exactly that with the PG2, the second signature model of professional basketball player Paul George, which features a design inspired by S...
If you're picking up a game console like the Xbox One X or PlayStation 4 Pro this holiday season, congratulations: You already have a great controller for your new system. Traditionally, third-party gamepads have always been a bit subpar, the kind of...
Look at this massive PS4 controller. It not only looks awesome, it actually works. You can play games with it. If Godzilla were a gamer, this is the controller he would use. This massive DualShock 4 controller is located in the Sony Interactive Entertainment Building in Tokyo.
This is exactly where an irradiated iguana would go if he felt like playing some video games. All the buttons on the controller actually work, though sadly the thumbsticks are not usable. I’m not sure why they could make everything but those thumbsticks work.
Godzilla will have to slum it with the D-pad buttons instead of the thumbsticks. It’s not clear if that giant touchpad area works or not. The video shows the massive gamepad being used to play some Parappa the Rapper – a game which has no need for thumbsticks anyway. Kick! Punch! Chop!
[via Kotaku]
If you never quite got the hang of Valve's weird touch-pad laden game controller, you're in luck: the company is testing out Steam Configuration support for the DualShock 4. Steam beta client users can now customize every button on the PlayStation 4...
While it's been possible to link a DualShock 4 to a PC to play Steam games, the functionality has been provided by third-party apps, not the companies themselves. Luckily, that will soon change, after Valve's Jeff Bellinghausen confirmed to Gamasutra...
Gadget customizer ColorWare already offers custom colors for the Xbox One and PS4 controllers, but it’s also been releasing limited edition graphics for both current gen controllers. Its latest offering is the DualShock 4 Ballistic, an awesome glossy brown fiber graphic inspired by Kevlar.
Even ColorWare has its limits – the graphic is not actually made of Kevlar, and it’s only applied on the upper half of the controller’s case.
The DualShock 4 Ballistic is limited to 50 units that cost $165 (USD) each. Xbox One owners should also check out ColorWare’s Titan and Carbon controllers. There’s also the dinosaur-themed Jurassic that’s available on both the DualShock 4 and Xbox One controller.