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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since the Xbox 360 was released, there has always been one major problem with the controllers. The directional pad, commonly referred to as the d-pad. Not really being a traditional directional ...

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 ...

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, ...

Your virtual street fights might soon become a little easier as Microsoft is reportedly tweaking the 360 controller’s d-pad with fight fans in mind. As good as the 360 controller is, the d-pad has ...

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 ...

It’s not the much-rumoured motion-sensing controller, but the ol’ Xbox 360 pad is about to get an upgrade in the form of a lick of paint and a new D-pad. The new controller has been “optimized” for ...

Holy Jesus, this is what I want for Christmas: A new Xbox 360 controller with a d-pad that doesn’t suck. (Like the FightPad here, but inside the official controller ...

This is part of our ongoing series about games and trends of the upcoming next generation. For the PlayStation 4 version of this article, go here. The Xbox One controller: Part 1: Projectors, smells ( ...