A hardware technician has opened, repaired, modified and tested more than 1,000 Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con controllers over ...

Analog sticks have become a core part of modern video game controllers. They also routinely fail or end up drifting, consigning expensive controllers to the garbage. [sjm4306] recently did a repair ...

Last week, I set up a Nintendo GameCube to play Suda 51’s cult classic Killer7 on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. I haven’t held a GameCube controller for years, but one small but important feature ...

“Stick drift” is right up there with other terms like “4K/60”, “raytracing”, and “teraflops” as one of the most-repeated phrases in the modern gaming world. Popularized primarily by the many accounts ...

No matter the system, analog stick drift is a fear for many gamers. Moments where onscreen characters start to move on their own, or vehicles begin to veer off to the side without any buttons being ...

Recently 8Bitdo added Switch support for its assortment of Nintendo-inspired Bluetooth game controllers, via a firmware update. Now 8Bitdo is adding some more Bluetooth controllers to the family, ...

If you go anywhere that sells games, you'll see endless kinds of analog stick covers. They've been around for quite some time, but their quality has ratcheted up dramatically over the past few years.

The Nintendo Switch is one of my favorite pieces of gaming hardware, but it’s not without its faults. Two-plus years after launch, my console has held up remarkably well, but the same cannot be said ...

Our controllers are bound to take a bit of a beating every once in a while. Whether it’s that boss on Sekiro that’s caused you to launch it across the room in a fit of frustration, or just hundreds of ...