This Fan Made the Sony-Nintendo Handheld the Companies Never Would
The retro handheld market has a strange problem. The hardware keeps getting better, the screens get sharper, the processors get faster, and yet most of…
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$73 Lenovo Gamepad Turns the Legion Y700 Into a Switch Lite Rival
Gaming tablets have always lived awkwardly between two worlds. Hold one flat, and it’s fine for casual sessions, but the moment a game demands precise…
This $130 Mario Kart Racing Wheel for the Switch 2 Has Seven Sensitivity Levels for Throwing Banana Peels
Nobody sits down to play Mario Kart and thinks “what this experience needs is a force feedback wheel, a pedal set, and a clamp-mounted desk…
This Oware-inspired gaming controller replaces joysticks with a precision half-ball control system
In an era where gaming peripherals are constantly evolving, designers are increasingly experimenting with new ways to rethink the relationship between the hand and the…
This Wireless Mouse Splits in Half to Reveal a Hidden Game Controller
Most people who game on a PC own two things that do roughly the same job at different times: a mouse for the desk and…
GameMT EX8 debuts as a budget Android handheld tailored for retro gaming
The gaming handheld continues to expand with new devices aimed at retro enthusiasts and mobile gamers. One of the latest additions is the GameMT EX8,…
Bethesda Made a Real Pip-Boy Wearable for $299 and It Even Has a Radiation Detector
Seventeen years of Fallout fans walking around with a fictional computer strapped to their arm in their heads, and The Wand Company has finally made…
This seahorse-inspired game controller concept is made for smaller hands
Game controllers have not changed much in shape since the mid-1990s. They’re still two-handed symmetrical slabs built around adult grip dimensions, loaded with enough buttons…
Nintendo Patented a Dual-Screen Switch and Never Made It. Here’s What It Looked Like.
Nintendo had a choice when designing the Switch 2. They could iterate on the formula that made the original a cultural phenomenon, refining the single-screen…
7 Retro Handhelds So Good They Actually Beat Consoles
At some point in the last couple of years, something quietly shifted in the gaming world. Not in the blockbuster, billion-dollar-franchise sense, but in the…
Killscreen’s N64 Funtastic-inspired Translucent Blue PS5 Controller Is Pure 1999 Nostalgia
The N64 Funtastic series was Nintendo’s most chaotic design decision, and that’s a compliment. Launched in 1999, the translucent controllers and consoles arrived at the…
ASUS ROG’s First Open-Ear Earbuds: Hear the Game and the Room
Gaming earbuds have long operated on an unspoken assumption: that total audio immersion requires cutting yourself off from the world around you. Sealed tips, passive…