The video game industry has more or less settled on a standard design for controllers with a pair of matching analog joysticks, a directional pad, four action buttons, and shoulder triggers on top. It ...

Although I thought I was invincible, the dreaded Joy-Con drift has finally come for my Nintendo Switch, which I bought on launch day almost six years ago. I’d be more upset about it were it not for ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

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Mason has been gaming since his fingers could grip a controller. Having worked independently for years, including having his work featured by Medium's largest independent publication, he knows the ins ...

Building a better mouse trap: One thing I do not like about the Nintendo Switch is the JoyCons. I find them extremely uncomfortable to use connected to the console. They are better using disconnected, ...

Wireless was big at this year's E3. Plenty of peripheral makers had cordless controllers on the floor - everything from straight pads to steering wheels to joysticks. While this was exciting to see -- ...

Nintendo made some questionable decisions during the early 2000’s, but developing the WaveBird certainly wasn’t one of them. Years before wireless controllers were the standard on home game consoles, ...

Shank Mods’ virtuoso recreation of a GameCube’s WaveBird as a set of Joy-Cons is impressive and beautiful, but it also fairly raises the question of hey wait a minute, shouldn’t Nintendo have done ...

Back when Nintendo first announced that the Wii would accept standard Gamecube controllers as a form of input device, there was the question of Wavebird compatibility. The Wavebird, the first truly ...

It took a lot of work, planning, and tinkering, but a modder has created a custom GameCube controller that can split apart and connect to a Switch tablet, allowing for handheld play. Shank Mods is a ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Nintendo announced in a press release this morning that the WaveBird ...