We talked to Lost in Cult about its new book, Joysticks to Haptics, and how it explores the history of gaming controllers.

Nintendo's Wii U launched with a pretty healthy line-up of games spanning across many genres, from platformers to survival ...

A new console makes arcade classics like Time Crisis and Point Blank playable on modern TVs, and it comes with an actual ...

The Classic Controller was never meant for this kind of use. It launched with the Wii in 2006 and was made for Virtual ...

The Wii Remote MotionPlus was an adapter that later became its own controller. The MotionPlus added was 1:1 tracking to the Wii Remote , making tracking more smooth and consistent.

The Wii Remote was crammed full of proprietary tech, but there were elements of the tech that, at least compared to the obvious stuff like the sensor and accelerometer, went largely by the wayside.

Problem: You were playing Wii U in Wii mode and put the game on pause. When you returned, your Wii Remote turned off and will no longer turn on. When using the GamePad, it only displays a message ...

Discarded designs for the original Wii Remote have emerged from the massive Nintendo leak from 2020, and they're a surprising shade of green. By Steven T. Wright on July 21, 2021 at 10:22AM PDT 1 ...

Watch on YouTube. The first set of designs feature a lime green Wii Remote, and date from July 2005, a year-and-a-half before the Wii was released.

The Wii remote was lauded for its simplicity, but Nintendo almost went in a different direction with it. Gaming. Early mockups of Nintendo Wii remote show how different it could’ve been.