Something that has become fairly common this year is to see a new controller launching or starting its Kickstarter drive every now and again. I’ve used a PS2 controller (yeah I know, freaking dated) to test out a few games in the past. Like recently, Zombie Driver THD was totally unplayable without the controller (they have rectified this though with a new update). So in that case, the controller made a whole lot of difference. In other games, especially competitive multiplayer ones like Shadowgun: DeadZone, having a physical controller puts you at an (unfair) advantage against the rest of the players.
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Last week the developers behind the MOGA mobile gaming system, PowerA, happen to be basically giving away MOGA units for one day where all buyers had to pay was the shipping. Those units should hopefully be already arriving to people who managed to et in on the deal and now PowerA has released a list of some of the newly released games that happen to support the MOGA controller.
A couple of days ago an update was pushed out for Retrobomb’s revamped version of the classic Dreamcast game Expendable. This revamped version, called Expendable Rearmed, features high-definition graphics, controls optimized for mobile gaming and other goodies. However, controller support wasn’t one of those goodies until now.
Retrobomb recently released onto Android a re-vamped and re-images version of the classic Dreamcast game called Expendable. While the game is pretty slick as it is, Retrobomb has been working hard on improving it even more and they have done it by adding controller support to Expendable Rearmed.
While you sift through all the games on sale as well as Android devices this weekend, SteelSeries has also put on a bit of a sale. In fact all of their products on their web store are at least 30% off and that includes the two mobile gaming products the company has recently released. Both the SteelSeries Free mobile gaming controller and the SteelSeria Flux headset are on sale this weekend only.
PowerA has sent out word that their MOGA mobile gaming system has finally begun arriving on the store shelves at 1,150 AT&T locations across the USA for the usual price of $49.99. For those of you who are still unfamiliar with the MOGA controller, it allows for your phone to clip right into it, offering up all the standard buttons you could want in a full-size controller although slightly smaller in size and with the phone clasp. It can also double as a tablet gaming controller as well since it runs through Bluetooth.
You may or may not remember the original iControlPad game controller which, originally, was designed for iOS devices before branching out and becoming available to Android devices as well. While the idea was great, there was a bit of an issue in terms of design since it used clasps to help attach itself to whatever phone you are using. Considering the huge range of device sizes Android has, you can see how this could be a problem. Well the iControlPad 2 looks to fix this by being completely bluetooth enabled minus the clasps.
Samsung Galaxy S III connectivity demo showing off connecting an Xbox controller, PS3 controller and more
Our friends over at AndroidNZ have put together quite the thorough video showing off all the connectivity features that you can do with the new Samsung Galaxy S III phone. While some of it is pretty standard, when it comes to gaming they also show off connecting an Xbox controller, PS3 controller and running FPSe, a bluetooth keyboard and more.
According to a new find in the Android 4.0 SDK, Ice Cream Sandwich will come with full support of game controllers. While for some people this isn’t anything new as Honeycomb came with USB Host support for peripherals back in the 3.1 update which includes game controllers.
Lately, when it comes to peripherals like controllers, it’s all about how to use them with your Android device. What about the other way around? Perhaps you’re playing a PC game and your wireless mouse dies and you have no spare batteries? Well you could always use your Android device instead.