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tag:,2017:blogdestructoidhttp://bulk2.destructoid.com/ele2/images/destructoid/favicon.ico2017-01-27T11:30:00Ztag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=415119Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterGameStop is taking limited pre-orders on that pricey Nintendo Switch Pro Controller2017-01-27T11:30:00Z2017-01-27T11:30:00Z
GameStop already ran out of their initial Nintendo Switch and Zelda: Breath of the Wild special edition allotment, but you'll have another crack at something Switch related today -- the polarizing Switch Pro Controller. It's $70, but based on hands-on impressions so far, seems almost essential for a lot of retro-type games that require precision inputs when the Joy-Con won't cut it.

If you want the Switch Pro Controller, you can snag a pre-order atGameStop in-store today in limited amounts. It's sold out entirely online already, but many stores in my area had anywhere from five to nine available for pre-order -- at my local shop, I was the second person to pre-order out of eight controllers an hour after it opened.

That doesn't sound too bad, but it sold out everywhere in under 30 minutes online, so odds are your chance will be completely obliterated after today.

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=411734Zack Furnisshttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Zack+FurnissHere's everything you get when you buy a Nintendo Switch2017-01-12T23:03:00Z2017-01-12T23:03:00Z
If Nintendo's unveiling event for their new console has convinced you that you gotta get your meat mitts on one o' them Switches, you might be wondering what all you get for your $300. Here's what's inside:

The console itself, a Switch Dock for when you want to play on your television, a Left and Right Joy-Con, wrist straps for both, an HDMI cable, and an AC adapter.

There are two different bundles at the same $300 price point. One has a neon blue Left Joy-Con, and a neon red Right Joy-Con, and the console itself is gray. The other has gray Joy-Cons as well as a gray console.

Are you guys gonna try to be colorful or stick to the monochromatic scheme?

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=411695Zack Furnisshttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Zack+FurnissThe Nintendo Switch Joy-Con has a capture button, but it only does screenshots right now2017-01-12T22:24:00Z2017-01-12T22:24:00Z
The rumored Share button for the Nintendo Switch is real after all. Soon you'll be able to pester all of your friends with game screenshots and send them out with social media. Video capture will be possible some time in "the future."

Also. inside each Joy-Con is also an accelerometer and gyro sensor allowing for independent motion control. I can't wait to see how that'll translate to recorded segments that y'all can send to your friends.

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=408379Dealzonhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/DealzonXbox One S controller clearance sale at $39.992016-12-31T08:00:00Z2016-12-31T08:00:00Z
Need an extra Xbox One S wireless controller or two to go with your shiny new Xmas present? You're in luck! Newegg is clearing out white/black new controllers for 33% off at $40 each.

These are the new controllers that have been updated for the Xbox One S. Initially the offer was for both black and white models but the black color option is now sold out as of writing.

Shipping is free and sales tax is limited to only these four states: CA, IN, NJ, TN. Interestingly, Newegg is also offloading some Xbox One S bundles, with the Battlefield 1 and Minecraft 500GB models both at $229.99 a piece. The deal is actually running for over two weeks, though we suspect it'll run out of stock at this price point well before the expiration date.

Update: Deal's all dead!

Xbox One S Clearance Sale

Xbox One S White Wireless Controller — $39.99 (list price $60)

Xbox One S 500GB Battlefield 1 Bundle — $229.99 (list price $300)

Xbox One S 500GB Minecraft Bundle — $222.99 (list price $300)

Note: While we can link to the $229 Minecraft bundle from Newegg, Antonline has a better deal at $222.99. Given it's $7 cheaper for the same exact bundle, we'll point y'all to the cheaper deal.

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=398530Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreHyperkin is making an NES Classic extension cable2016-11-09T17:30:00Z2016-11-09T17:30:00Z
I imagine the NES Classic will bring about some happy memories this holiday season, particularly for those of you who grew up with the original system and now have kids of your own that are getting into gaming, but there are some less-than-ideal aspects to the mini console. You've probably heard about one of the major complaints expressed in reviews: the too-short controller cord length.

We've told you about some third-party options like this funky-looking Nyko wireless controller that could side-step the issue, and here are a few more to keep in mind. Hyperkin is producing a six-foot extension cable ($7.99), which speaks for itself, as well as an NES-to-NES Classic adapter ($9.99) that supports original NES controllers, including joysticks (though "functionality may vary").

These two accessories are compatible with one another, and both ship on November 28.

[Via Siliconera]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=398526Brett Makedonskihttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Brett+MakedonskiSomeone made a PS4 Elite controller and it releases tomorrow2016-11-09T16:30:00Z2016-11-09T16:30:00Z
It's not by Sony's doing, but the PlayStation 4 will soon have an Elite controller to call its own. Xbox's Elite controller represents the best controller on that platform; maybe a third-party can do that same for PlayStation.

Emio, a company that makes all sorts of tech gadgets, is selling what it calls the "Elite controller for PS4." It has the same customization that Xbox's controller has like rear paddles, and interchangeable thumbsticks and d-pads. In fact, all the parts are compatible with Xbox Elite accessories. It's kind of like they were just ripped off an Xbox controller and stuck to a DualShock 4.

This take on an Elite DualShock runs $89.99 -- a considerable amount less than the $150 price tag the Xbox Elite carries. It's also not first-party or endorsed by Sony. That's the risk associated with this. But hey, if Sony won't make a high-end PlayStation controller, someone else will.

EMiO Elite Controller for PS4 Gaming Console - PlayStation 4 [Amazon]

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=395826Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreIf Sony won't make a pro controller for PS4, Razer and Nacon will2016-10-26T18:00:00Z2016-10-26T18:00:00Z
Not to be confused with the couple-of-weeks-off PlayStation 4 Pro, Sony has announced a pair of third-party "pro" controllers coming to PlayStation 4 this year from Razer and Nacon.

"To give our competitive and pro players more choice, we invited Razer and Nacon to use their knowledge and expertise in developing eSports peripherals to design two unique pro controllers for PS4," says Sony, writing on the European PlayStation Blog. "Through close collaboration we've been able to help optimise each controller for PS4 – incorporating innovative DualShock 4 controls and ensuring gamers can enjoy a plug & play experience with any model of PS4."

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=392746Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterSteam is overhauling its support for PlayStation 4 controllers2016-10-13T17:00:00Z2016-10-13T17:00:00Z
Steam is slowly assimilating every control method into its ever-expanding core, and it's just as well. While Xbox controllers were king on PC in terms of ease of use, the DualShock 4 has slowly been climbing the ranks.

During its "Steam Dev Days" conference in Seattle, Valve also unveiled some more advancements for DualShock users. Soon you can basically customize it as heavily as a Steam controller by way of the Steam API, which includes gyro and touchpad adjustments. Based on the mockup, it looks really sleek.

I still prefer the Xbox One pad for basically everything but fighting games and precision platformers, but this is a nice concession if you happen to like symmetrical analog sticks.

Steam to expand PlayStation 4 gamepad support in new update [Gamasutra]

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=391516Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreOculus Touch is $199, shipping in December2016-10-06T13:30:00Z2016-10-06T13:30:00Z
The Oculus Touch controllers are fantastic. They slip over your hands and can detect your individual finger movements precisely enough that you get a convincing sense of immersion while waving your hands around in virtual reality. One of my best experiences with the Oculus Rift was using them to great effect for an upcoming game called Wilson's Heart. Here's the thing, though: they're $199.

Oculus announced that price point today during a livestream and also honed in on a release date at last. Pre-orders open October 10, and Oculus Touch will begin shipping on December 6.

Bringing the device even further in line with Valve's HTC Vive, there will also be a sensor, sold separately for $79, that enables room-scale VR for Oculus Rift. All together, that puts the two headsets at a much closer price point (around $800 for the Vive, and $880 for the Rift with this new gear).

Ouclus [Twitter]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=389191Jed Whitakerhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jed+WhitakerReview: PowerA Fusion Controller for Xbox One2016-09-26T12:00:00Z2016-09-26T12:00:00Z
I don't know why controllers with extra buttons and features cost so damned much.

Clearly, neither do the folks at PowerA, who have created the Fusion controller for Xbox One that includes swappable sticks, quick-trigger locks, and two extra mappable buttons on the back all at a budget price of $10 less than a standard wireless Xbox One controller.

This isn't the shitty MadCatz GameCube controller you gave to the friend you secretly hated, and while it is a damned good piece of hardware, it comes with a few minor drawbacks.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=386381Cory Arnoldhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Cory+ArnoldWith the new Xbox accessories, color comes at a price2016-09-12T18:30:00Z2016-09-12T18:30:00Z
Not to be outdone by Sony, Microsoft also has announced some new accessories for its updated Xbox One S. The Xbox One S controller, which has Bluetooth connectivity and improved grips, is now available in black, blue, and purple.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=382408Brett Makedonskihttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Brett+MakedonskiThe DualShock 4 PC wireless adapter is up for order on Amazon2016-08-24T14:00:00Z2016-08-24T14:00:00Z
Jordan just told us about it yesterday, and today it's available to secure for a future date. The wireless adapter to use the PlayStation 4's controller on PC is up on Amazon.

According to the listing, the adapter officially releases on September 19. It's priced at $24.99, which is right in line with the cost of Xbox's adapter that performs the same function. (Although, the Xbox adapter allows for use of eight controllers; Sony's only allows for use of one.)

While this allows for use of the DualShock 4 when playing PC games, a recent announcement gives it a bit more utility. It's also compatible with PlayStation Now which Sony just revealed is coming to PC.

However, the adapter isn't 100 percent necessary to use the DualShock 4 on PC. It connects via Bluetooth, so it's possible to get the basics from the controller by pairing it that way. Sony says that this adapter enables every feature of the DualShock 4, though. If that's important to you, this adapter is the simplest way to get that.

Sony Computer Entertainment PS4 DualShock4 USB Wireless Adaptor - PlayStation 4 [Amazon]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=381514Mike Cosimanohttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Mike+CosimanoYou could probably club somebody to death with this Russian gamepad2016-08-19T22:00:00Z2016-08-19T22:00:00Z
As a major video game press outlet, we get a lot of emails in our Tips mailer asking us to cover Kickstarters, iOS games, Steam Greenlight trailers, and all kinds of garbage. It happens! Any good PR representative will tell you that press coverage is a crucial part of a product's release cycle. And, let's be fair, sometimes cold-emailing reporters does work! If you've got the right subject line and an interesting pitch, you just might grab somebody's attention.

This nightmare device -- known as the R-HANDLE -- absolutely grabbed my attention, as well as the attention of our publisher Niero, who said it reminded him of the "Wild Wacky Action Bike" from South Park. Me? I think it looks like some horrific The Fly-esque combination of a Dreamcast fishing controller, and those Xbox keyboards. Like if Dahir Insaat made a video game controller.

It's Russian (obviously), and currently only a single prototype exists. Here's some footage of it being used to play Dota 2, which thematically I can get behind. A complicated controller for an equally complicated game makes a lot of sense.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=380656Brett Makedonskihttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Brett+MakedonskiHere's a cheaper take on Xbox One's Elite controller2016-08-15T14:30:00Z2016-08-15T14:30:00Z
Pining for that sexy Xbox One Elite controller, but can't come up with the $150 to get it? Or maybe you just can't justify it. That's understandable; $150 is a lot of money for a controller, no matter how good it is.

There's a cheaper alternative coming soon from PowerA. The Fusion Controller for Xbox One has some of the customization of the Elite for a fraction of the price. This runs $50 and releases on September 1.

The Fusion's features are: six interchangeable sticks (same as the Elite), two "pro gaming buttons" on the back (compared to the Elite's four paddles), trigger locks (same as the Elite), and dual rumble motors. The Elite also has a set of interchangeable d-pads that the Fusion doesn't.

Truthfully, it seems as if the Elite controller bests the Fusion in all categories except for price, which it loses handily. We haven't had a chance to try the Fusion, so we don't know if it's a competent controller. But, just based on the product's specs, it seems like it might be a viable plan B for the cost-conscious consumer.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=379334Mike Martinhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Mike+MartinGiveaway - Console of your choice, controller and a Titan One2016-08-11T05:00:00Z2016-08-11T05:00:00Z
Here's a big one for you guys. The awesome folks at ConsoleTuner.com are letting you pick your choice of console (PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 or Xbox One), an opposing controller (If you get the Xbone, you pick a DualShock and vice versa), and of course, the Titan One. That's a helluva deal right there. Now some of you may be asking, "What's a Titan One?" Fair enough, let's check the blurb:

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=379269Brett Makedonskihttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Brett+MakedonskiThere's already a pretty decent sale on the new Xbox controllers2016-08-08T17:30:00Z2016-08-08T17:30:00Z
The new Xbox One S controller just released last week, but there's already a pretty dang decent discount on it. While these controllers normally cost $60, they're going for $11 off the very first time they're on sale.

Amazon has the white Xbox One S controller discounted down to $49 today. This is the new one with Bluetooth functionality (meaning it can connect to PCs without the adapter) and the textured grip. We took a look at one of these two weeks ago when our custom Dtoid-colored Design Labs controller arrived. Chris wrote that "Elite, in my opinion, is the best remote out right now, with this Xbox One S model trailing close behind."

If you're thinking about picking one of these up, remember that it's only the white one that's on sale because that's the only one that's the new model. The others listed are all different and older variants of the Xbox One controller.

Xbox Wireless Controller [Amazon]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=375071Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreThis limited-edition Xbox One S is a bit much2016-07-14T20:00:00Z2016-07-14T20:00:00Z
I have no desire to get an Xbox One S -- not as a current Xbox owner and especially not with Microsoft's Project Scorpio coming down the line -- but I can't deny how sharp the system looks in white.

This first limited-edition model themed after Gears of War 4, though? Uh, well, someone will dig it.

Those scratches are laser-etched, by the way. They're really going for it here.

Priced at $449, the bundle includes a 2TB Xbox One S, a Gears-themed Xbox One controller (not the Elite), a download code for Gears of War 4: Ultimate Edition (playable on Xbox One and Windows 10), a few days of early access to the game starting October 7, and the season pass. For the sake of comparison, the standard 500GB Xbox One S will be $299, while the 2TB equivalent will cost $399.

The bundled-in controller (and a gray-and-blue "JD Fenix" version) sport the new textured grip, Bluetooth support, and better wireless range. They'll be available standalone for $74.99 in September.

Introducing the Gears of War 4 Limited Edition 2TB Bundle, the First Custom Xbox One S [Xbox]

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=369240Joe Parlockhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Joe+ParlockThe Steam Controller's Activator Update makes it even more customisable2016-06-17T04:00:00Z2016-06-17T04:00:00Z
Valve has released a beta build for its newest Steam Controller update, and somehow it's managed to cram even more customisation options into an already almost overloaded pad.

The Activator Update's patch notes are slightly confusing if you're not intimately knowledgeable of the Steam Controller:

You can use a Start Press activator and a Release Press activator to turn a toggle crouch into a hold crouch. Conversely, the toggle option will allow you to turn any action, such as a hold crouch, into a toggle.

Turbo can be set on Activators, meaning any button can have customized rapid fire. This can be combined with multiple activators, so single press for single fire, while a long press will engage turbo mode.

Use a Start Press Activator to switch to a new action set, with a Release Press on the same button to switch back to the original set. Using this technique Action Sets can act like an entire-controller mode shift. Also included in this update is the ability to copy any existing Action Set into the new set, making customization a lot faster.

Mode Shifts now also use Activators, so a mode-shift can be toggled on and off without continuously holding a button.

Activators can also cycle through a set of bindings. Put Stand, Crouch, and Prone on a single button and cycle through them with each press.

In layman's terms, the update lets you set activation rules for different outputs on the same physical button. Different ways of pressing a button can have their own unique effects, for example in an FPS a single press of a button could be to crouch, while a long press of it could be to go prone.

It goes a bit further than that, though, as activators can also be used to trigger entire mode shifts for the rest of the pad. Press one button, and every other button can change to a new purpose. This'll be particularly helpful for MMOs, or other games that feature long hotbars with more skills than there are physical buttons. Set up an activator to toggle between modes, and each of the face buttons could swap to a different set of abilities for easier access.

Like everything else with the Steam controller, setting up activators can be a bit daunting at first. But with a bit of practice, I can see this update being one of the most important ones the pad's had in a long time.

You can read the complete update logs on the Steam Community. If you want to give activators a go for yourself, make sure your client is on the newest Steam beta.

Activator Update [Steam Community]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=368048Joe Parlockhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Joe+ParlockMake your Xbox One controller look pretty with the Xbox Design Lab2016-06-13T12:13:00Z2016-06-13T12:13:00Z
In its E3 conference, Microsoft just announced a whole new scheme that will allow you to customise your Xbox One controller with a ton of different colours for every part of the pad.

Dubbed the Xbox Design Lab, the scheme lets you buy your own customised Xbox One S controller (not the original Xbox One design) and decide on different coloured faceplates, grips, analogue sticks and buttons.

These controllers are due to be released in October, however the store to make and pre-order your own will launch later today. They won't cost too much more than standard Xbox One pads, being priced $79.99, or will cost an extra $9.99 if you want a neat engraving on it.

Microsoft claims that there are a total of eight million different combinations, although whether most of them will look good is a whole different matter.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=366641Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreThis transparent PS4 controller is a nice throwback2016-06-07T19:00:00Z2016-06-07T19:00:00Z
Sony has a new pair of variant PlayStation 4 controllers lined up for a summer release in the PAL region, and I hope they make it over to North America at some point.

As a Nintendo-loving '90s kid, you know I'm all about that partially-transparent "Crystal" DualShock 4. There's also a new Steel Black gamepad and the returning Gold and Silver models.

Availability will "vary by country," but the initial launch is set for July 11, 2016.

Crystal and Steel Black DUALSHOCK 4 wireless controllers launch in July [EU PlayStation Blog]

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=366204Joe Parlockhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Joe+ParlockReview: SteelSeries Stratus XL PC/Android controller2016-06-06T06:00:00Z2016-06-06T06:00:00Z
Before Microsoft rocked up with Games for Windows, PC controllers were like the Wild West: support was spotty, controllers were often low quality, and getting them set up involved a lot of faffing and jiggery-pokery. There was a high chance you'd get shot too. It was a hard time.

Then Microsoft unveiled Games for Windows, and with it a guarantee the games included under the label would work natively with the Xbox 360 controller. Since then, the 360 and Xbox One pads have been the unofficially-official controllers to use, with only the recent arrival of the Steam Controller shaking things up a bit.

So SteelSeries – a company I associate more with headsets and mice than controllers – offering the Stratus XL as an alternative pad for PC and Android was definitely something that piqued my interest.

I'm sad to report that after using (or, rather, trying to use) the Stratus XL for the best part of a week, I'm having flashbacks to the pre-Games for Windows days. I have never faffed with a piece of hardware this much.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=365337Dealzonhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/DealzonSteam Controller and Steam Link on sale for 30% off at GameStop2016-06-02T07:00:00Z2016-06-02T07:00:00Z
If you didn't hear, Valve has sold over 500,000 units of Steam Controllers. GameStop now wants you to join in the hype because the retailer is discounting the Steam Controller (and Steam Link) at a big fat 30% off discount.

This is the first legitimate (and rather big) discount for the Steam Controller. Previously it has always been at list price and the best we've seen was bundle deals at Steam Store or Amazon where you'll get Left 4 Dead 2 for free if you pick up a controller.

Steam Controller — $34.99 (list price $50)

Steam Link — $34.99 (list price $50)

Use code SAVER for free shipping

The Steam Link, while a different device altogether than the Steam Controller, is a good accessory option for those wanting to stream their games to the big screen. You can use GameStop promo code SAVER during checkout to get free shipping.

No expiration date has been noted, but we don't expect this to stick around forever. As a side note, the unexpected big discount makes us wonder if there are new controller on the horizon with E3 closing in... whatever the case, GameStop is chugging these out of its warehouse. US-only deal, unfortunately.

Game deals from Dealzon. Sales help support Destructoid.

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=365274Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreValve has sold over 500K Steam Controllers2016-06-01T20:00:00Z2016-06-01T20:00:00Z
More than half a million Steam Controllers have been sold, according to Valve.

The funky, big-eye-looking device has continued to improve since we reviewed it. Here are some of the recent enhancements for further customization and ease of use as outlined by the company:

You can now configure and use the controller from your desktop [outside of Big Picture], including the pop-up keyboard to communicate with your non-Steam programs.

You can now configure and use the controller from your desktop, including the pop-up keyboard to communicate with your non-Steam programs.

Create templates from your favorite settings and apply them across all your games.

Create multiple "Action Sets" and switch between them on the fly. For instance, in GTA V or Just Cause 3 it's easy to switch between walking, driving and flying controls with a single button.

We've enhanced support for games purchased outside of Steam. Once you add the game to your library you can edit and share your configurations with your friends just like any other Steam game.

Full Steam Controller support in VR Game Theater mode, including using the motion controls as a virtual steering wheel.

And in another update coming soon, "You will soon be able to use Activators to assign actions to press-and-hold, double click, toggle and more. For example, in Doom you can cycle through all weapons by pressing a button or double tap it to bring up your BFG."

With each of these updates, I'm that much closer to ordering one. The controller struck me as a novelty when it was first announced. I wasn't so sure it would gain traction. But the more I hear encouragement from happy owners, the more I think I could put it to good use.

June Update [Steam]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=358766Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterAn official Pikachu gamepad for Pokken Tournament is coming soon2016-05-02T11:30:00Z2016-05-02T11:30:00Z
Pokken Tournament still get some play in my house, and really turned out to be a fun little fighting game. It's a bummer that the new good gamepad can't be used for anything else, but for those of you that live and die by Pokken, you'll get your money's worth.

Now, collectors everywhere may be perking up to grab a special Pikachu version, which was just newly revealed from HORI. It's up for a June release in Japan, and will cost 3,758 yen. The pad has since been confirmed for North America, but not details are available just yet.

I think I'm going to skip out on this one -- the original pad works well enough, and you strangely can't use two anyway due to the game's limitations (one combatant has to use the GamePad).

Serebii [Twitter]

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=354761Jed Whitakerhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jed+WhitakerThe Steam Controller looks like the best way to play Dark Souls III2016-04-11T23:00:00Z2016-04-11T23:00:00Z

Now that Dark Souls III is out in the wild on Steam, Valve has released an official configuration setting for the Steam Controller to help you praise the sun in style.

Now, I'm not the biggest fan of the controller -- unlike some writers around here (Hi Joe!) -- but this just looks like the best way to play. Not only can you easily navigate menus, you can also quickly spin around as if you were using a mouse. Who needs skills when you can just buy the Steam Controller? Luckily it is being offered in a price-reduced bundle with the game on Steam so if you've been thinking about buying one, now would be a good time.

It looks like Dark Souls III managed to sneak in an easy mode. ;)

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=353005Joe Parlockhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Joe+ParlockA disabled gamer received a custom DualShock 4 controller from a Sony employee2016-04-04T03:00:00Z2016-04-04T03:00:00Z
A kind Sony employee has gone out of his way to build a custom DualShock 4 controller for a disabled player.

Peter Byrne has Cerebral Palsy, a condition that affects an individual's motor skills, and he, unfortunately, struggled with the standard DualShock 4 controller. Byrne kept accidentally hitting the big touchpad, which in some games opens up big menus or maps. Not something you want in the middle of a shootout in The Division.

Frustrated, Byrne emailed Sony about his problem, and only a day later heard back from Sony employee Alex Nawabi, who said he would personally take on Byrne's problem.

Byrne then recieved a DualShock 4 controller that had been modified by Nawabi himself only a few days later. The touchpad has been disabled, with most of its functionality is shifted to a smaller, less easy to hit button elsewhere on the pad.

According to an included letter, this was Nawabi's first ever controller modification and, all in all, took about 10 hours to build. He's even building an improved backup controller, just in case something happened to the first one:

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=350073Jonathan Holmeshttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jonathan+HolmesPSA: The Pokken controller works with Space Dave on Mac/PC2016-03-27T11:00:00Z2016-03-27T11:00:00Z
It's been a pretty wild month for Nintendo controllers. We not only discovered the rumored Nintendo NX contoller was a fake, but we also saw the release of Hori's Pokkén Tournament Pro Pad -- a comfortable, responsive controller that struggles to justify its own existence due to its extremely limited library of compatible Wii U titles.

It works with Pokkén Tournament, and that's about it. No other Wii U fighting games, Virtual Console games, or Wii games through backwards compatibility will respond to the thing.

Still, the pad may be a worthwhile purchase for anyone looking for a new analog stick-free controller for Mac/PC. The creator of the upcoming multi-platform action title Space Dave has confirmed with Destructoid that the Pokkén Pro Pad is 100 percent compatible with his next game. Knowing that, we can safely guess the controller works with most Mac/PC games that don't require dual stick controls, such as Downwell and the upcoming meat-focused grilling action puzzle game Steven's Sausage Roll.

So if you're looking for a new SNES-style gamepad for your computer, you could do a lot worse than Hori's Pokkén controller, regardless if you own Pokkén or not.

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=350855Joe Parlockhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Joe+ParlockValve's letting us design and make our own Steam Controllers2016-03-25T04:00:00Z2016-03-25T04:00:00Z
As much as I love my Steam Controller, it's difficult to deny that, for a lot of people, the ergonomics of it are incredibly weird. The buttons are in strange places, the grips are big and chunky, and there's a big ol' lump right in the middle of the pad that could easily put people off.

Well, that might not be a problem for too much longer, as Valve's released the .CAD files for all the external bits of the Steam Controller (the shell, paddles, analogue sticks, D-pad, etc.) as a free download. This means with the right software, a bit of know-how, and a 3D printer, you can basically design and make your very own Steam Controller shell.

The .CAD files are released under the creative commons license, so you're free to make whatever you like if it's for personal use, and free to share those designs with others, but if you plan to sell it, you'll need permission from Valve first.

I really hope this takes off because I think the Steam Controller has a hell of a lot of potential. What changes would you make?

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=350802Steven Hansenhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Steven+HansenThat weird ass Nintendo NX controller leak? Fake2016-03-24T19:01:00Z2016-03-24T19:01:00Z

If you approached the Hey Arnold!-head-shaped Nintendo NX controller leak with a pillar of salt, congratulations you correct, no-fun-having mother flubber. The "leak" was actually a fake drafted up for internet "lols" or what have you based on a too-straight mock up of Nintendo's patent. Reddit's Idriss2Dev posted the above video. I suppose someone faked the "same tree" follow up "leak" based on the same design, too.

Yesterday Nintendo refuted reports that the company planned to end Wii U production sometime in 2016. Fun times, the internet's immediacy and desperation for news meeting Nintendo's Johnny Tight Lips philosophy.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=349600Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterReview: Pokken Controller2016-03-21T11:00:00Z2016-03-21T11:00:00Z
Nintendo's history with peripherals that only support several games is nothing new. Raise your hand if you had a massive Four Swords party with four GBAs and a GameCube!

The same thing goes for the Pokkén Controller, recently released by Hori. This is a gimmick to end all gimmicks, so I wouldn't even think about getting one unless you've already put some serious hours into Pokkén Tournament.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=349432Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreThese new Xbox One controllers sure are slick2016-03-17T21:00:00Z2016-03-17T21:00:00Z
I've heard it's hard to use the Xbox One Elite Controller and go back to the system's still-good standard gamepads, but I wouldn't know. I haven't used one yet! I'm completely free to gawk at these new colors -- Copper Shadow and Dusk Shadow -- in sweet, ignorant bliss.

They're priced at $69.99 each and will be available to buy online next week, with pre-orders open now. If you're interested but want to shop at a physical store instead, Microsoft has more specifics about where you can find them and when. There's some exclusivity stuff to sort through.

Dusk Shadow And Copper Shadow: Two New Xbox One Special Edition Wireless Controllers [Major Nelson]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=344723Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterReview: Hyperkin ProCube controller2016-02-26T12:00:00Z2016-02-26T12:00:00Z
When I first saw Hyperkin's ProCube controller, I wanted to give it a go. Most of us have been disappointed with the fact that the Super Smash Bros. GameCube adapter only works with that one game, even if I did get a whole lot of use out of it.

So I managed to get my hands on one, and I have to say, it's a near perfect recreation.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=341583Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterReview: Street Fighter V Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition 2+2016-02-19T12:00:00Z2016-02-19T12:00:00Z
Another fighting game, another fightstick. This month Mad Catz is unleashing several sticks into the market, including a sub $100 option, and a few $200+ models.

Do you really need an expensive stick to play Street Fighter V? No, but a lot of you are going to buy it anyway.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=341830Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterHyperkin's 'ProCube' controller is literally a Wii U Pro in the GameCube style2016-02-16T13:00:00Z2016-02-16T13:00:00Z
It's a shame that the official GameCube controller adapter for Wii U doesn't work for anything outside of Super Smash Bros., but Hyperkin is aiming to fix that problem with its own proprietary option.

It's called the "ProCube" controller, and while it's shaped just like a Cube remote, it actually functions as a Wii U Pro Controller -- meaning, it'll work on anything that supports it. I can't imagine playing, say, Bayonetta 2 on it, but it looks sweet enough. The ProCube is completely sold out on its official website, but it's going for $29.99 at GameStop in three variants -- black, purple, and white. The launch date is February 29.

Wii U Pro Controller [GameStop via Nintendo Everything]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=340288Nic Rowenhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Nic+RowenStreet Fighter V will have legacy controller support after all2016-02-09T15:15:00Z2016-02-09T15:15:00Z
This is one case where I don't mind seeing a developer go back on something they've said. Spanish website MeriStation broke the news that Street Fighter V is going to come with a day-one patch to add in support to make PS3-era fightsticks work on the PS4, and internally, our own Chris Carter backed it up (look for his review next week). Normally I'd get my back up about a 5.9GB day-one patch, but when it saves $150 or more on a new fightstick, I think I can handle it.

This is fantastic news for anyone excited about SFV but not so excited about replacing their peripherals. Fighting games are already a hard enough genre to get into without pricing out potential players.

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=339152Zack Furnisshttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Zack+FurnissXCOM 2 will be compatible with the Steam Controller at launch2016-02-04T22:00:00Z2016-02-04T22:00:00Z
While playing a review copy of a game that may or may not rhyme with Frying Dwight, a pop-up appeared to announce that Firaxis and Valve are implementing Steam Controller support for XCOM 2. If you have one of them fancy doohickey's, you can:

Use a different control scheme based on the in-game situation.

Experience precise and responsive 1:1 camera controls using the touchpads in the Geoscape and the Tactical view.

Instantly select your ability with the flexibility of the controller's Touch Menus.

This is considered to be the initial implementation, so there might be kinks to work out. If you haven't picked up the Steam Controller yet, it'll be bundled with XCOM 2 for 40% off. If you've already purchased the game, you can still get the discount on the controller.

XCOM 2 Gets Native Steam Controller Integration [Steam]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=336709Joe Parlockhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Joe+ParlockMake sweet, sweet, screeching music with the Steam Controller2016-01-26T02:00:00Z2016-01-26T02:00:00Z

There's something really appealing about using things which sound just awful to make neat music. People have managed to get a tune out of disc drives, dot matrix printers, both together, and now the Steam Controller's haptic feedback.

Using a file developed by Steam forum user Pila, you're now able to play .midi files using the two motors on either side of the controller.

Up top, you can see the developer using the controller to play Portal's credits theme, "Still Alive." You can also listen to the Doom theme, and the folks over at PC Gamer managed to make a lovely sounding "Star Spangled Banner."

It's not recommended you play anything too lively on it because we don't quite know how durable the actuators are. So absolutely do not, under any circumstances, crap out your controller by recording a video of you playing the Death Waltz on it, and definitely don't send it to me for my own personal enjoyment. Totally don't do that.

We made the Steam controller sing The Star Spangled Banner [PC Gamer]

We made the Steam controller sing The Star Spangled Banner

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=330753Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreThe Oculus Rift's Touch controllers need more time2015-12-31T15:00:00Z2015-12-31T15:00:00Z
The Oculus Rift's Touch controllers already weren't going to make it in time for the virtual reality headset's launch, but now they're even further off. Oculus VR expects to ship Touch in "the second half of 2016," noting that the final product will be "more comfortable, reliable, and natural."

The Oculus Rift is still on for Q1 2016 and includes an Xbox One gamepad. We don't know how much it'll cost yet, but the company expects pre-orders for the device to open "very soon."

My only exposure to the Touch controllers was in a "play room"-esque tech demonstration -- not something as fully realized as the Surgeon Simulator demo Zack tried -- but the experience was invigorating. It didn't take long at all before they felt, rather uncannily, like an extension of my hands and each individual finger. If I end up going the Rift route (I'm undecided until we know the price point for it and PlayStation VR), I'll spring for Touch. No question about it.

Update on Oculus Touch Ship Date [Oculus]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=330365Jed Whitakerhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jed+WhitakerLicking and sucking are just two ways you'll control games at GDC 20162015-12-29T23:30:00Z2015-12-29T23:30:00Z
The games lineup for GDC 2016's Alt.Ctrl.GDC showcase has been announced, and the control schemes sound crazy as heck, if not tasty.

Hello, Operator! has players acting as a telephone switchboard operator in the 1930s by physically connecting calls with patch cables. If there is any voice acting, I hope it is old-timey. I love the dialect of that era.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=329100Darren Nakamurahttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Darren+NakamuraOde to the Spice Orange GameCube controller2015-12-24T08:00:00Z2015-12-24T08:00:00Z
The holidays are a magical time. Off work, spending time with family. Sometimes art happens. Sometimes an artist finds himself writing a traditional Shakespearean sonnet about the Spice Orange GameCube controller. Sometimes a bad video with a worse faux-thespian narration gets produced.

This is one of those times. Mind the over-enunciated iambic pentameter.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=325854Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterPower A's Xbox One Star Wars controllers are nifty looking2015-12-11T18:00:00Z2015-12-11T18:00:00Z
I was recently sent a pair of Power A wired Xbox One controllers for testing, and they happened to line up directly with the arrival of the new Star Wars film, set to debut next week.

The feel of the controller is rather slick, and although the buttons can feel a tad cheap, the art emblazoned on the pad is a conversation starter for sure. For testing, I was given the evil (but is he really?) Kylo Ren pad and the BB-8 one, which make for some great husband and wife heads-up play sessions. If you're curious, this is one of the remotes that was crafted with a 3.5mm audio jack.

My favorite feature of this line of controllers though is the fact that they're wired by default. You can pick them up at a discount at some point and skip the play and charge kit, which comes in handy whenever I run out of batteries. It sports a 10 foot cord, which is more than enough for most setups to play comfortably.

It's not going to replace my Elite by any means, but they'd make a nice gift.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=325795Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreLet's watch robots build Steam Controllers2015-12-10T19:00:00Z2015-12-10T19:00:00Z
Ever wonder how controllers are made? Valve has put out a fascinating behind-the-scenes video showing the hard-working Aperture robots (yes, really!) that assemble Steam Controllers.

It lacks the minutia of something like How It's Made -- which I totally get; the Internet is an impatient place -- but there is an additional nugget of insight for those of us who would like to know more:

"To achieve our goal of a flexible controller, we felt it was important to have a similar amount of flexibility in our manufacturing process, and that meant looking into automated assembly lines," writes Valve. "It turns out that most consumer hardware of this kind still has humans involved in stages throughout manufacturing, but we kind of went overboard, and built one of the largest fully automated assembly lines in the US."

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=325770Jordan Devorehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jordan+DevoreWindows 7 now supports the Xbox One wireless controller adapter2015-12-10T17:30:00Z2015-12-10T17:30:00Z
The Xbox One controller is terrific enough that I've considered dropping $25 on one of those wireless adapters for PC so I can use it beyond just Xbox gaming. But I haven't. Not yet!

I'm still on Windows 7, despite Microsoft's continual prompts to upgrade, and the adapters are for Windows 10. Thankfully, that changes today -- Windows 7 and 8.1 are now supported as well.

These things are temporarily out of stock on Amazon, but so long as I'm there, I might as well buy some Nerds Rope in bulk to hand out in place of actual coal this Christmas. That would be fun.

Major Nelson [Twitter]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=325768Brett Makedonskihttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Brett+MakedonskiNintendo files patent for what might be the NX's controller2015-12-10T15:00:00Z2015-12-10T15:00:00Z
Nintendo has filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an oblong controller that features a full touchscreen. As rumors heat up surrounding the NX, Nintendo's next piece of hardware, we're left to wonder if this is the vision the Japanese platform-holder has for its controller.

The patent, which was found on FreePatentsOnline by a NeoGAF user, was filed in June of this year and just published today. We have independently discovered the patent's application and the actual patent on the United States Patent and Trademark Office's site. These two pages confirm that the patent was definitely filed and it's not just an elaborate PDF uploaded to an external site.

Through 259 lines of descriptors, Nintendo's inventors explain how this controller will supposedly work. It's a lot to take in but the patent also offers an abstract summary which reads: "A non-limiting example information processing apparatus comprises a housing, and a first portion of the housing is formed in an elliptical form when viewing from the front. A display panel and a touch panel constitute one main surface of the first portion. Holes are formed in left and right end portions of the display panel and the touch panel, and two operation sticks are provided through the two holes. When viewing the first portion from the front, an area except key tops of the operation sticks becomes a display area."

While that's still not succinct, Nintendo also attached images that paint a much clearer picture. Below are graphics that offer a nice visual representation of the controller. It's just speculation at this point (even more so beyond if this is actually the NX's controller), but it's thought that this device might use Sharp's free-form display technology.

Nintendo won't confirm or deny any of this until the NX's proper reveal. There's no timeline on that, but it's rumored to be aiming for a 2016 release. The new year's right around the corner, so it likely won't be too much longer before we find out what all of this is about.

United States Patent Application 20150355768 [United States Patent and Trademark Office via NeoGAF]

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=321255Laura Kate Dalehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Laura+Kate+DaleController remapping is now available on all Xbox One controllers2015-11-17T07:00:00Z2015-11-17T07:00:00Z
Good news for everyone who owns an Xbox One but didn't shell out for one of those ultra fancy premium Elite controllers, you can now remap the buttons on your standard Xbox One controllers too.

Previously limited just to Elite controllers, you can now go in and swap around what all your buttons do in all your Xbox One games. Want to swap your A button and right trigger for some reason? Done, totally sorted.

This functionality now works for standard official wireless controllers, as well as third party wired controllers.

Syncing customised layouts to the cloud and creating controller presets are still exclusive to the Elite controller, and none of this functionality works at all on PC yet. You can change your layouts by going to Settings, Ease of Use then Button Mapping.

So, who's excited to have this functionality widely available on their Xbox One?

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=319983Vikki Blakehttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Vikki+BlakeCheck out this awesome Darth Vader PS4 controller2015-11-10T04:00:00Z2015-11-10T04:00:00Z
The Darth Vader-themed PlayStation 4 DualShock controller will be available in Europe from November 18, 2015, and November 19 in the UK.

Sony confirmed the news on the official EU and UK PlayStation twitter accounts.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=318844Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterThe Xbox One Elite controller will be in low supply this month2015-11-03T07:30:00Z2015-11-03T07:30:00Z
The more I use the Xbox One Elite controller, the more I'm stuck on it. It's been pretty great to me so far despite the insane $150 price tag, but it looks like people who own these things are going to be a bit more "elite" in other ways as of this month.

Microsoft, by way of Major Nelson, has announced that the unit is sold out across the country, and that "supplies are limited" until next month rolls around. More are coming out "each week" but they don't expect the situation to improve until December.

For something as pricey as this, people could stand to give it some thought before racing to pick one up.

Larry Hryb [Twitter]

 tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=318108Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterSony's PS4 media remote is a gigantic monolith of a device2015-10-30T18:00:00Z2015-10-30T18:00:00Z
I try not use too many remotes in my household. It's already bad enough having so many different controllers lying around, and having to juggle multiple devices beyond that gets pretty annoying. It's why I try to control most of my capable electronics with my smartphone.

If you're into clickers the new PS4 universal media remote is now available for $30, but note that it still has a little ways to go.

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=317866Joe Parlockhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Joe+ParlockSniffing pug butts given an accessible controller for disabled gamers2015-10-28T03:00:00Z2015-10-28T03:00:00Z
Butt Sniffin Pugs is a game about exactly what you'd expect: walk around a park, sniff pug butts, get new abilities, sniff more pug butts. While that does sound wonderful, there are other people on this site who have more expertise in butts than me. It's the controller I want to talk about.

You roll a big ol' tennis ball around to move, and then slap on a plushy dog's arse to take a whiff. The entire thing looks like something MacGyver would make to detonate a bomb in a pet shop, but developer Gabe Telepak says he wants to adapt it to work for a wider variety of games to help allow players with disabilities to play.

Talking to Kotaku at IndieCade, Telepak said:

At first [Butt Sniffin Pugs] was kind of this fun thing, but now we're trying to use it to talk about accessibility. Like, 'Hey, we can make our games more accessible. It's not that hard.' Instead of letting the controller die as a one-time thing, we want to use it for that cause.

While it's essentially a big-ass trackball, the Butt Sniffin Pugs controller could be incredibly helpful for people who don't have the fine motor skills needed to use a traditional controller. One of the pros of this controller is that it doesn't seem like it would be particularly cost-prohibitive for players, as opposed to some of the accessible hardware that's out there.

Telepak is working with IndieBox and AbleGamers to make a slightly less janky version of the controller that, unfortunately, also has a removable dog butt. I kind of think that should be absolutely compulsory for all controllers ever.

There's no specific release date for Butt Sniffin Pugs other than "in 2016" for PS4 and PC, and "later" for iPad. The controller is still in the prototyping stages, so don't expect to see that quite yet either.

There is also a Kickstarter for the game coming some time this month, but what with there only being three days left of it I'm not quite sure when.

A Dog Butt Game Controller, Built With Disabled Gamers In Mind [Kotaku]

 Read more...tag:https://www.destructoid.com/,2017:/post.phtml?pk=316931Chris Carterhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Chris+CarterReview: Steam Controller2015-10-23T12:00:00Z2015-10-23T12:00:00Z
PC gaming has come a long way since I first witnessed it in the '80s. There were hundreds of peripherals, from first- to third-party controllers, joysticks, proprietary flight sim devices, to full-on vibrating vests for games like Mech Warrior. On my journey through the PC world I've seen it all, and most of it was expensive and inelegant.

Thankfully, Microsoft came around with a unified solution eventually: Xbox controllers. Pretty much every PC gamer I know uses one, and for the most part, modern games are plug and play. Except, Valve recently decided that it wants to get in on the action and took the Xbox design a step further, integrating full-on keyboard and mouse support into it.

Having spent the last week with it however, I'd recommend waiting for the next iteration.

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The twelve recipients of this year's PEN Translation Fund were announced last week, and since I can't find it on their website, I'm just posting the complete list below. Bunch of interesting sounding projects—Hillary Gulley's and Bonnie Huie's caught my eye (the latter for the use of the term "mash note," WHICH I LOVE)—from a mix of experienced and young translators.
These winners were selected from a pool of 130 applicants, which is pretty amazing when you stop to think about it.
Anyway, here's the full list of winners:
Bernard Adams for his translation of Andrea Tompa's A Hóhér Háza (The Hangman's House), a poignant and beautiful novel about a girl growing up in a Romanian-Hungarian family during the 70s and 80s in Ceauşescu's Romania. The translation combines a fine-fingered attention to detail with a powerful emotional sweep. (Available for publication)
Alexander Booth for Im Felderlatein (In Latin Fields) by Lutz Seiler. Widely acknowledged as one of the major German poets of his generation, the work of Seiler has been translated only sporadically. Booth's translations give a strong sense of Seiler's poetic voice, with an incessant use of fragmentation as he attempts to pin down memory (usually childhood memory, sometimes of traumatic events) and the stark imagery of his terse lines. (Available for publication)
Brent Edwards for L'Afrique Fantome (Phantom Africa) by Michel Leiris. A diaristic account of Leiris's activities as the "secretary-archivist" of Marcel Griaule's Mission Dakar-Djibouti (1931-33), often compared to Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques as introducing a path-breaking critical self-reflexivity into the discourse of anthropology. (Seagull Books)
Joshua Daniel Edwin for the first book of a young German poet Kummerang (Gloomerang) by Dagmara Kraus. These translations display an explosive inventiveness and poetic intelligence that finds surprising, engaging ways to render poems. They appeal as much through their sly punning and syncopated rhythms as they do through the stories told between the lines. (Available for publication)
Musharraf Ali Farooqi for his translation from the Urdu of Muhammad Husain Jah and Ahmed Husain Qamar's Hoshruba: The Prisoner of Batin, the second volume of an 8000-page late-nineteenth century epic of magical fantasy based on the popular oral narrative tradition. (Random House India.)
Deborah Garfinkle for her translation of Worm-Eaten Time: Poems from a Life Under Normalization by the Czech poet Pavel Šrut. A selection of hallucinatory poems, banned by the government and circulating in samisdat, written during the Prague Spring of 1968 and then, after a ten-year silence, in the 1980s before the fall of Communism. (Available for publication)
Hillary Gulley for the translation of Marcelo Cohen's El Fin de Los Mismo (The End of the Same), a formal experimentation and sci-fi-inflected mini-plots – a prison on the beach, a man in love with a woman with three arms – shape this finely wrought Argentinean novel. (Available for publication)
Bonnie Huie for her translation of Notes of a Crocodile by the Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin. The only novel published by Qiu before her suicide at 26, this work is an extraordinary combination of mash note, love story, comic shtick, aesthetic manifesto, and spiritual autobiography. It is a path-breaking queer novel and a classic of modern Taiwanese literature. (Available for publication)
Nathanaël for the Mausoleum of Lovers by Hervé Guibert, a posthumous collection of the private journals that the well-known novelist and AIDS activist kept from 1976-1991—a series of literary snapshots of the author's various objects of desire and mourning and already a classic of French autobiography. (Nightboat Books)
Jacquelyn Pope for her translation of Hester Knibbe's Hungerpots, from the Dutch. These wry, unsentimental poems gently upend myths of domestic life and wax anti-poetically (yet beautifully) on the most ordinary manifestations of nature. (Available for publication)
Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad for a delightfully light-on-its-feet translation of the novel Mirages of the Mind by Urdu writer Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi. Tracing an arc of nostalgia between Pakistan and India, its main characters are all Indian Muslim immigrants to Pakistan whose struggles veer from the comic to the tragic. The translators' touch is graceful, lively, and supple. (Available for publication)
Carrie Reed for a complete translation of Yǒuyáng Zázǔ (Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang) by Duan Chengshi. A vast compendium from the Tang Dynasty of weird scientific and ethnographic information and generally strange stories. (Available for publication)
If you're interested in getting information about any of these, you can contact Paul Morris (paul[at]pen.org) and Michael Moore (michael.moore[at]esteri.it) and they can pass along samples and contact info.
UPDATE: The PEN Translation Fund winners' announcement blog post has been found and added to this article.
Prose translators will likely disagree, but I believe translating poetry requires a significant level of talent, a commitment to the text, and near mania, all of which suggests that the undertaking is the greatest possible challenge. The task is to. . .
The biggest issues with books like The Subsidiary often have to do with their underpinnings—when we learn that Georges Perec wrote La Disparition without once using the letter E, we are impressed. Imagine such a task! It takes a high. . .
Following The Infatuations, Javier Marías's latest novel seems, like those that have preceded it, an experiment to test fiction's capacity to mesmerize with sombre-sexy atmospheres and ruminative elongated sentences stretched across windowless walls of paragraphs. Thus Bad Begins offers his. . .
Death by Water, Kenzaburo Oe's latest novel to be translated into English, practically begs you to read it as autobiography. Like The Changeling, as well as many other works not yet released in English, Death by Water is narrated in. . .
Jocelyne Saucier's Twenty-One Cardinals is about the type of unique, indestructible, and often tragic loyalty only found in families. For a brief but stunningly mesmerizing 169 pages, Twenty-One Cardinals invited me in to the haunting and intimate world of the. . .
We know so very little; so little that what we think to be knowledge is hardly worth reckoning with at all; instead we ought to settle for being pleasantly surprised if, on the edge of things, against all expectations, our. . .
Many of Virginie Despentes's books revolve around the same central idea: "To be born a woman [is] the worst fate in practically every society." But this message is nearly always packaged in easy-to-read books that fill you with the pleasure. . .
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's La Superba is appropriately titled after the Italian city of Genoa, where, after escaping the pressures of fame in his own country, the semi-autobiographical narrator finds himself cataloguing the experiences of its mesmerizing inhabitants with the intention. . .
It took reading 44 pages of Intervenir/Intervene before I began to get a sense of what Dolores Dorantes and Rodrigo Flores Sánchez were up to. Recurring throughout these 44 pages—throughout the entire book—are shovels, shovel smacks to the face, lobelias—aha!. . .
As presaged by its title, contradiction is the theme of Peter Stamm's novel, All Days Are Night. Gillian, a well-known television personality, remains unknowable to herself. And Hubert, a frustrated artist and Gillian's lover, creates art through the process of. . .

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If I have time, I'll do some light contouring around the outer edges of face and down the nose, but it's not something I do regularly, so I don't buy a lot of contour products.
Exactly the same! Almost a part of my daily routine a few years ago but now for an every day makeup and on the go, it's been culled! Brows, lashes, concealer.
I very rarely contour, I've not got time to be faffing around it. I do my makeup at 6am and the quicker I can do my makeup, the longer I can have in bed haha! I do sometimes contour for nights out or special occasions
I think I'm somewhere between contouring and bronzing. I use NYC Sunny or TheBalm Bahama Mama lightly around my hairline and down the hollows of my cheeks just for a healthy colorful glow so my face doesn't look so flat after foundation and powder!
I'd like to try some of the new highlight/contour cream pens/pencils with the Real Techniques Bold Metals contour brush – the flat top-ish one 🙂
Only for performances, really. I am freckly, contouring doesn't look great on me, and I'm kind of over it
It doesn't, although I bought a contour powder last year and I play around with contouring when I'm at home trying out new products or colour combinations. I'd like to get some level of skill before I leave the house.
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New here!
I just signed up for the forums today. I'm a college senior psychology major, and have a sliiiiight addiction to fish. I've been on other forums, and it doesn't seem as if they're as as used as I hope they would have been.
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post #2 of 9 Old 02-12-2011, 06:57 PM
I just signed up here too. Welcome to TFK! My wife bought our kids a 10g tank for christmas. I went up to the Lfs to get a stand and wound up buying a 25g and stand and equipment. I was planning on setting it up and going back for fish later with the kids only to find out I had a long wait before we could add them. Anyway, now we have 3 platys w/fry and 1 expecting , 1 dwarf gouami, 6 peppered corys, and angelfish. So what kind of set up do you have? I'd love to hear back!
post #3 of 9 Old 02-12-2011, 07:17 PM
Originally Posted by Christemo View Post
I just signed up for the forums today. I'm a college senior psychology major, and have a sliiiiight addiction to fish. I've been on other forums, and it doesn't seem as if they're as as used as I hope they would have been.
Hope to read some great information here!
Hope to read some great information here!
Hey welcome to the forum!!!. I just joined this forum too. Started my freshwater fish tank a week ago. Still trying to cycle my tank. There is a lot good information on this forum. What type of fish do you have?
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Welcome to the forum! We are glad you found us.
I also have a sliiiight addiction, lol.
I also have a sliiiight addiction, lol.
If you don't stand up for something you'll fall for anything...
post #7 of 9 Old 02-16-2011, 10:26 PM
Hello and welcome to all the future addicts in this thread. LOL.
We're glad you found us.
We're glad you found us.
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post #8 of 9 Old 02-17-2011, 09:52 AM
After a 30 year hiatus from the hobby, I jumped back into it 3 weeks ago with the purchase of a used 35 g with about 80 fancy tailed guppies in it. I've gotten rid of most of the guppies in exchange for some live plants and fish food and fertilizer. I then traded an orig (1985) copy of Jack Wattley's handbook of Discus for a pair of Angels (2.5 - 3.5") plus four cardinal tets plus some more plants. I've since added 2 cory's, 4 Plecos.. (2 for my next tank), 14 black neon tets, 8 neon tets. (Just a tad overcrowded but soon to be relieved with a 29 bow-front (freebie) set up last night.) I learned one lesson in the first 10 minutes on this site! Java Ferns are NOT to be buried in the gravel! OOPs... now anchored to some fake driftwood. I look forward to participating on this site! Bill in Virginia
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very warm welcome to you all,
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The last time David Beckham started a World Cup game was back in July 2006 on the day that the whole Sven Goran Eriksson project collapsed in defeat to Portugal in Gelsenkirchen. It was the game that was supposed to signal the beginning of the end for Beckham but, three years on, the man who just will not quit is likely to start a World Cup qualifier for his country at the age of 34.
Tonight against Andorra, cap No 112 for Beckham promises to be a starting place in the centre of the England midfield proving that even at this ripe old age for a footballer he can still reinvent himself as easily as he once switched hairstyles. Yes, he is there by default because Gareth Barry is suspended and Michael Carrick is injured but even so when Fabio Capello is in charge, nothing is done on the basis of sentimentality.
If Capello picks Beckham to start it will be only the third time he has done so in the 14 games he has been in charge and the first time in a competitive match. Beckham in a central holding role is not new in terms of England. He was played there for a two-game spell in September 2005 when Eriksson, in consultation with his players, was searching for a way to shoehorn Beckham into a 4-5-1 formation in the aftermath of a dreadful 4-1 away defeat to Denmark a month earlier.
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This week already, we've learnt that the global economy is on the rocks and that under the coalition, the poorest of our society have got even poorer while the richer have got even richer and food banks are seeing ever increasing numbers of visitors.
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Millions of people will buy this single, not because it's very good (and to be fair, it's not actually all that good) but because they don't want to be seen to the heartless bastard who didn't buy it.
Our local radio station (yes, KLFM I'm looking at you) have been playing it every bloody hour. I don't seem to recall them holding a listener poll to deduce whether we wanted it rammed down our throats repeatedly all day. As if that wasn't bad enough, this morning they told us that they'll be doing it, "so we understand what it's all about".
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I think the radio station are missing the point entirely, it's them that don't understand what it's all about: – It's one big publicity stunt and they can all claim they made it to be Christmas No 1 this year. Still, makes a change from another X-Factor offering I suppose.
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Nope. Sorry.
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