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App Lets You Use Sixaxis Controller with Some Android Devices

Many of us would like better gaming controls on our touch-based devices. I can’t think of anything better than a PS3 Sixaxis controller for the job, and it looks like Dancing Pixel Studios agrees.…

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August 10th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

Too Cheap to Buy a PS3 Dualshock Controller?

PS3 Vibration Feedback Attachment

This strange appendage snaps on to the bottom of your standard PlayStation 3 SIXAXIS joystick, turning it into a poor-man’s DualShock controller.

PEGA’s oddly-named “Vibrating Bag” adds rumble capability to your stock PS3 controller. Now they don’t specify if the vibration actually works when the game generates its feedback signal,…

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January 26th, 2008 by: Technabob

Ben Heck’s PS360 Sixaxis Controller

PS3 Xbox 360 Controller Hack by Ben Heck

Console modder extraordinaire Ben Heck is at it again. This time, he’s carefully taken the guts of the Playstation 3′s SIXAXIS controller and sandwiched them inside of an Xbox 360′s wireless controller.

There’s something that’s oh-so-wrong but oh-so-right about the strange bedfellows coming together to form a single mutant controller.…

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April 14th, 2007 by: Technabob

Sony and Immersion Settle, Sixaxis Rumble Now Possible

PlayStation 3 Sixaxis Controller

A couple of years back, Immersion sued Sony for $91 million for infringing on their patents when they made their Dual Shock controllers for the PlayStation 2. The company claimed that Sony was using patented force-feedback technologies without paying royalties. After a long, drawn out battle, the two companies have…

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March 1st, 2007 by: Technabob

Pimp Your Sixaxis Controller

SIXAXIS Analog Stick Covers

Don’t care for the clean design of the PS3′s SIXAXIS controller? Why not make it super fugly with these analog joystick covers from Japan.

These oddly textured silicon caps attach to the top of the PlayStation 3′s analog sticks, supposedly protecting the thumbsticks and providing grip, all while making your…

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February 20th, 2007 by: Technabob

PS3 Sixaxis Rumble Solution Possible

PS3 SIXAXIS Rumble

One thing sorely lacking from Sony’s SIXAXIS controller for the PS3 is the rumble sensation that’s present in pretty much all of the other major gaming systems out there. Sony claimed they left it out due because it interfered with the systems motion sensors, but conventional wisdom tells us that…

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January 30th, 2007 by: Technabob

Nyko Recharge Docks for PS3 and Wii Controllers

NYKO Wii and PS3 Charging Cradles

I recently reported on Joytech’s rechargeable controller dock for the Wii. Now, Nyko is getting into the game with charging cradles for both the Wii and the Playstation 3′s SIXAXIS controllers.

Filling a void in both Nintendo’s and Sony’s product lines, the docks allow you to neatly recharge your controllers…

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January 10th, 2007 by: Technabob

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