Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States who has been working with GameRant since August 2023 and self-publishing since May 2025. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has ...

If there’s one thing that developers absolutely must get right when designing a video game console, it’s the controllers. If they muck up the controller design by making it unwieldy, cumbersome, or ...

Is the $99 Steam Controller worth buying? Find out how Valve's highly customizable gamepad bridges the gap between PC and ...

From Xbox to Nintendo, gamepads tend to have a similar set of face buttons. A, B, X, and Y are the choice de rigueur. Early consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) used A and B buttons, ...

The Razer Kishi Ultra is essentially a modified Razer Wolverine V2 controller cut in half with an expandable middle section to slot in a phone or tablet. Its design reminds me a lot of the PlayStation ...

We have to hand it to Atari for keeping it simple but functional early on. A lot of competing consoles around now tried to get crazy with controllers, adding things like number pads and spinning dials ...

The GameSir G7 Pro 8K increases the polling on a top-rated controller, and while the price increase is minimal, the ...

The Ohsnap Mcon doesn’t just rethink the mobile gaming controller — it practically throws the old playbook in the trash, delivering one of the most flexible and genuinely portable ways to play on the ...