Microsoft seems to be doing a major changing of the guard with its joystick and peripheral line, going into a major second phase of production that, so far, has garnered mixed reviews. The replacement ...

The Sidewinder line was a series of gaming peripherals produced by Microsoft, starting in the 1990s. After some initial stumbles, several cutting edge joysticks were released, at a time when the home ...

On this, the day Apple is expected to reveal the iPad 2, Microsoft is expected to confirm the death of the SideWinder range of PC gaming peripherals. It’s not the first time Microsoft has killed the ...

Now that it's been confirmed that the good ol' Sidewinder Game Pad has gone the way of the Dodo, we're now left with only two options from Microsoft for Game Pad fun -- the Plug and Play USB pad, and ...

LEIPZIG, Germany, Aug. 22, 2007 Today at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Microsoft Hardware debuts the revival of its SideWinder™ line with its first gaming mouse built from the ground up — ...

We had a hunch that Microsoft would be launching a SideWinder-branded keyboard this fall, and sure enough, the suits in Redmond are keeping the revitalized name alive with an all new September-bound ...

Microsoft's first gaming keyboard was the Reclusa, and it was really a Razer keyboard with Microsoft branding. In this post, I’m going to take a quick look at the first all-Microsoft gaming keyboard, ...

I first picked up the Microsoft Sidewinder when I was over at the Microsoft Hardware Day which, despite the misleading name, is an event all about mice and keyboards. For a man like me, who’s never ...

LEIPZIG, Germany Aug. 20, 2008 Today at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Microsoft Hardware debuted the SideWinder X6 Keyboard — the most versatile gaming keyboard on the market with the ...

This article was published more than 23 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. Whether you've got careening cars to control, mechs to maneuver or a batch of bogies to blast, the ...