Honestly, I can’t stand the iPhone’s touchscreen for serious 3D gaming — does anyone really want to sing the praises of a setup where your thumbs block half the screen?
Enter Ion Audio with the iCade Mobile, a wraparound gamepad you slide your iPhone or iPod Touch into, which gives you a d-pad on the left and a four-button pad on the right. Sure, $80 sounds a little steep considering that’s all you get (no analog thumbsticks, a critical omission) so we’ll cross our fingers and hope the company drops the price to $50 (or less) sometime soon.