For gamers who’ve griped about the Xbox 360’s leveled down d-pad, Microsoft’s telling old-school controller fans ‘have it your way’. In fact: Have it both ways. On November 9, the company says you’ll ...

The Xbox 360 controller is considered to be one of the best video game controllers ever made — except for one thing: the D-pad. It’s conversely one of the worst directional inputs ever put on a ...

While the fact our Portable Drum Kit from Mad Catz was defective was a disappointment, as the product looked great other than the fact it didn't work, we did find a diamond amidst all that coal. You ...

In the past five years, Microsoft has encountered a number of complaints regarding its Xbox 360 hardware. The most vociferous of those were likely related to critical hardware failures, but not far ...

Microsoft has a new Xbox 360 controller in the works and fighting game fans may want to give it a look because it can be configured with a raised D-pad. Twist the D-pad on the controller to change it ...

Almost two decades after it first launched, the original Xbox 360 controller is getting a sequel. The Xenon controller from Hyperkin, a reference to the first internal development codename of the Xbox ...

That didn’t take too long. Microsoft’s sent out official snapshots and a video demonstrating the new Xbox 360 controller with transforming D-Pad. The new controller features a transforming D-Pad, gray ...

Update: Microsoft has confirmed to Shacknews that there are indeed no plans to bring the "optimized" D-Pad to North America in any form. "Basically, the controller will only be available for a limited ...

Microsoft’s announced this morning that an enhanced Xbox 360 controller is currently in the works. It’ll launch with the new ‘Play & Charge Kit’ sometime in early 2011. “The Xbox 360 Wireless ...

Xbox Live's Major Nelson has just revealed a new wireless controller model, which includes a "transforming" directional pad. Twisting the D-Pad can raise and lower the surrounding plastic, ...

That headline is not a typo. This post goes out to all those brave left thumbs we've lost along the way. Thumbs who's owners refused to purchase a fightpad (or stick) and instead decided to just push ...

Well, here's something rather interesting. Microsoft is introducing new Xbox-related hardware! No, it's not another Xbox 360, not even a slimmer-than-slim one. It's a new...controller. Yeah, a ...