Five Innovative Controllers Co-opted by Nintendo’s ‘Wii U’

With Nintendo’s announcement of the Wii U yesterday, we saw a glimpse of console gaming’s future. With lots of exciting new features (which you can read in depth about here and here), we decided to take a look back through controller history to see what innovations have left the biggest imprints, culminating in the Wii [...]

Level Up!: Pick Which Video Games Get Shown at the Smithsonian

Adventure!, Half-Life 2, Final Fantasy VII… the argument about what the greatest video games of all time are has raged since the medium went mainstream. But, now, one of America’s greatest artistic and educational institutions tries to settle the debate, one mouse-click at a time.

Console Does NES, Genesis, and SNES with Original Controllers

Ah, the single biggest hurdle of the retro gaming movement: Playing all your old favorites with anything other than the original controller. The $70 RetroN 3 Video Gaming System appears to have that base covered, though.

Free SNES Emulator for iPad Uses iPhone as Controller

This may be one of the more expensive ways, from a hardware standpoint, to get a SNES emulator up and running but if you have an iPad and an iPhone (both jailbroken, of course) then SNES (HD) may be worth checking out.