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Corded-only. Changes are essentially cosmetic. There's an odd quirk about the Xbox controller. Its general layout is so successful that it has not only gone essentially unchanged since the very first ...

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Chris Dickinson was stunned after he took an impromptu tour of an air-traffic control tower in Sydney, Australia. Controllers there worked 36-hour weeks on average and seemed happy, rather than ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For the last couple of game console generations, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries have taken over. Sony's DualShock and DualSense ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Xbox lineage kicked off all the way back in 2001 with the release of the first Xbox console. Now, well over 20 years later, the line of ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...