Sounds like peripheral company Performance Designed Products (PDP) is in trouble, and that in turn is affecting its sponsorship of fighting game outfit Team AfterGlowElite (Team AGE). Read… 7/17/13 12:30am 7/17/13 12:30am

Interesting moment of candor earlier today from Min-Liang Tan, the CEO and "chief gamer" of Razer, maker of peripherals, laptops and other gaming hardware. On Twitter, Tan offered that he was "dusting off my PS3" to play The Last of Us. That dust, he said, is the reason Razer doesn't make products for that console. Read… 7/06/13 5:00pm 7/06/13 5:00pm

Earlier this week, a coupon "generated by a third party to test our shopping cart" was made available on peripheral company Razer's UK store. That coupon offered 90% off products at the store. Read… 4/19/13 5:28am 4/19/13 5:28am

When they aren't busy making tablet gaming computers, Razer has been known to toss out the odd gaming peripheral. Today the company assembles a team of official collector's edition League of Legends peripherals that, despite my hopes, did nothing to improve my in-game performance. Read… 3/05/13 11:00am 3/05/13 11:00am

Japanese peripheral maker Thanko is releasing a wireless gesture controlled mouse that you can strap to your hand and, along with Thanko's Android-enabled TV converters, allow you to sit on you sofa and flick your finger around. Read… 11/02/12 7:38am 11/02/12 7:38am

There is a machine called the Retron 3, released last year by the gaming hardware folks at Hyperkin. That thing was a combo Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Read… 6/07/12 12:30pm 6/07/12 12:30pm

What the hell is this? A steering wheel? A jet fighter's yoke? It's certainly a peripheral for the PlayStation Move, with swing-wing handle grips out at the side. Why is that feature necessary? Read… 4/18/12 10:00pm 4/18/12 10:00pm

After a successful Facebook PR campaign, peripheral manufacturers Razer have announced they'll be making a left-handed version of their Naga mouse. Read… 4/02/12 12:00am 4/02/12 12:00am

What's the single greatest achievement of the current generation of video game consoles? While some might say motion control or the rise of online multiplayer, in today's Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Aikage is just happy to keep his hands under the covers. Read… 3/20/12 11:00am 3/20/12 11:00am

The University of Utah News Center reported today that their engineers are hard at work developing a new video game peripheral that stretches the skin on your thumbs. Read… 3/05/12 6:30pm 3/05/12 6:30pm

Those pretty plastic peripherals can be painfully pungent, as commenter Hongo found out after his recent purchase of a place to keep his PS Vita. It's Stink Up on Kotaku! Read… 3/01/12 11:00am 3/01/12 11:00am

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is the time for gaming peripheral makers to shine, and not many are quite as shiny as SteelSeries. They're doing up CES 2012 big with a tiny Bluetooth gamepad, some travel-friendly headsets, and mice, mice, mice. Read… 1/10/12 10:30am 1/10/12 10:30am

Nyko never met a console or portable it couldn't make a ton of additional crap for, and the upcoming PlayStation Vita is no different. At CES 2012 in Las Vegas the peripheral maker debuts its launch lineup of Vita accessories. Read… 1/10/12 9:00am 1/10/12 9:00am

Getting the most out of a high-end PC racing game normally involves a bulky simulated steering wheel and a pair of foot pedals hidden under a computer desk. As you can see, the Simraceway SRW-S1 Steering Wheel is anything but normal. Read… 11/17/11 11:20am 11/17/11 11:20am

As a trend, steampunk may be yesterday's fad. And, while this custom controller—created by the folks at MorbidStix— apparently been around for a while, it just popped up into view again. I love the combination of a real-life mechanical act—unlocking the controller with the key-to open up digital worlds. It's a nice… Read… 10/18/11 11:40am 10/18/11 11:40am

The kids at Hit Box got in touch over the weekend to show us this video of their custom fight stick in action. And as someone who sucks at fighting games, I am interested. Read… 9/12/11 4:30am 9/12/11 4:30am

While there have been adapters allowing you to use 360 pads on a PS3 for a while now (and vice versa), it's not often you see a controller released that promises to literally copy one platform's pad and replicate it on another. Read… 9/05/11 1:30am 9/05/11 1:30am

With swappable thumb sticks and directional pads, a special compartment for adjusting weight, and a cable that unscrews from the base when not in use, the Mad Catz Official Major League Gaming Pro-Circuit Controller is a serious controller for the serious gamer. Read… 8/22/11 9:30pm 8/22/11 9:30pm

Last year Microsoft updated the white and clunky original Xbox 360 with the slim model, a slick black beast of a gaming console. Suddenly peripherals for the old system looked like ass in comparison. Today Microsoft fixes that, introducing the gorgeous new Xbox 360 Wireless Headset with Bluetooth and Xbox 360 Media… Read… 7/26/11 10:40am 7/26/11 10:40am