Joystick Archive

  • Knowles Acoustics Introduces an Ultra Low-Power Digital MEMS Joystick for Handheld Consumer Devices

    Posted on March 29, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Video: HTC Aria from AT&T now official. Out June 20th for $129.99 after rebate

    Video: HTC Aria from AT&T now official. Out June 20th for $129.99 after rebate

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    AT&T today belched forth news of their diminutive HTC Aria, which we spied earlier. Dante Martin, Product Manager at AT&T for Android devices, has even starred in his very own hands-on video, which we've embedded for you after the break.

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  • Ultra-rare Sega Action Chair up on ebay

    Ultra-rare Sega Action Chair up on ebay

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Awesome. Simply awesome. How could I have gone through my childhood not knowing that I could have played my Sega Genesis games on the Sega Action Chair. The beauty here is that the chair itself is the controller with a joystick pad located on the chairs single mounting point and controller bars holding the buttons. Amazing.

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  • CrunchDeals: Logitech G13 game controller for $50

    CrunchDeals: Logitech G13 game controller for $50

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Best Buy has a pretty good deal on Logitech’s G13 game controller at $50. It’s backordered for a couple weeks, but patience is a wondrous virtue.

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  • Samsung announces new Moment Android phone

    Samsung announces new Moment Android phone

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Hot off the presses! Samsung has announced a new Android-powered phone: the Moment. The new Android-powered Samsung Moment is the first Sprint phone to use Samsung’s new 3.2″ AMOLED touchscreen display and will feature a landscape sliding QWERTY keyboard. It also includes Wi-Fi, integrated GPS, a 3.2MP camera/camcorder, and stereo Bluetooth. Customers can order the Moment beginning [...]

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  • Street Fighter IV Real Voice is the coolest cell phone strap ever (video)

    Street Fighter IV Real Voice is the coolest cell phone strap ever (video)

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    I've seen countless straps in my many years in cell phone-crazy Japan, but this one beats them all. The so-called "Street Fighter IV Real Voice" is essentially a mini joystick that plays the voice samples that follow a number of special moves in the game. All sounds from the major attacks Chun Li, Ken, Ryu and Dhalsim can pull off are there - provided you're skilled enough with your hands.

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  • Review: Take a trip to hell and back with Doom: Resurrection for iPhone

    Review: Take a trip to hell and back with Doom: Resurrection for iPhone

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    I’ve never knew hell would be so much fun. Well, it is, and you can enjoy a visit to hell yourself with Doom: Resurrection (iTunes Link) for the iPhone. As soon as I picked up my iPhone, I was brought back to the days of my youth. As just a child, I remember the sadistic [...]

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  • Review: Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid

    Review: Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Mario, Sonic, … Rolando?! Gaming purists: DON’T FREAK OUT. I’m not implying that HandCircus’s phenomenal Rolando series is equivalent to the gaming franchise behemoths, Mario or Sonic. But, I will say that Rolando 2 is as compelling a reason to buy an iPhone as Super Mario 64 once was to buy the N64. Rolando 2: [...]

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  • Michael Jackson’s sad, sad toy barn

    Michael Jackson’s sad, sad toy barn

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    These panoramas show the remains of MJ’s secret toy lair complete with C3-P0, Batman, and Darth Vader dolls along with some bikes, some Bruce Lee stuff, and a few lumpen Power Rangers. This is the detritus of an overgrown kid with attention disorder. It jumps from cool thing to cool thing and even includes an arcade [...]

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  • Wireless Tekken 6 joysticks on the way for $150

    Wireless Tekken 6 joysticks on the way for $150

    Posted on June 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Tekken 6 is still several months away—October 27 is circled on most fighting game fans' calendars, I suspect—,but Namco just took the wraps off the joystick for the 360 and PS3 versions. It'll run $150, about $50 less than the Fancy Pants version of the Street Fighter IV joystick from MadCatz. The joystick is wireless, yes.

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  • Apple rejects a Commodore 64 emulating iPhone app that coulda been a contender

    Apple rejects a Commodore 64 emulating iPhone app that coulda been a contender

    Posted on June 21, 2009 | No Comments
    It's happened again. Apple has officially rejected an app that at first blush seems harmless and fun. This time it's a Commodore 64 emulator from Manomio that offered a realistic joystick and keyboard, portrait and landscape gaming, and a fully licensed C64 emulator code. It was all on the up and up. Apple seemed excited. But then Manomio got the dreaded rejection mail:
    Thank you for submitting C64 1.0 to the App Store. We've reviewed C64 1.0 and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it violates the iPhone SDK Agreement; "3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s)."

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