iPhone getting game thanks to the iControlpad

by Joshua Topolsky posted May 23rd 2008 at 6:01PM

iPhone gaming aficionados -- your wildest dreams will soon be coming to fruition. Apparently, CraigX (one of the masterminds behind the Pandora project) is also busy whipping up a physical control pad add-on for the Apple device. The peripheral -- dubbed the iControlpad, of course -- will attach to the dock connector on the bottom of the phone and wrap around the sides, and is said to provide a PSX-like feel. The pad's site claims that compatibility is already built in to popular iPhone game emulators, and units are being sent out to other developers as well. The model pictured here is a prototype design -- but frankly, they had us at "Hello."

[Thanks, Andy]

Filed under: Handsets, Apple

Tags: add on, AddOn, apple, craigx, emulator, icontrolpad, iphone

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Daniel @ May 23rd 2008 6:20PM

First! I'm looking forward to this, it is sooo hard to play a lot of games with the touch screen alone. Especially fighting games like street fighter etc.

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carlo2 @ May 23rd 2008 6:32PM

Perhaps because it wasn't originally BUILT to play games with... I dunno.

Yet another way to make the phone less of what it was made to be, and more of what it originally should have been made to be.

But that is a cool add-on, I'll give it that so as not to appear to be a troll or something.

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