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There aren't many ports on an Xbox controller. Both the wired and wireless varieties come with a USB port at the top of the controller, which is used for either connecting your controller to your ...

Aaron McKinley is a writer, blogger, and video game enthusiast with over six years of experience in web content and many more in playing games until the wee hours of the morning. A passion for writing ...

Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...

Rare has teamed up with 8BitDo, not Microsoft, for a special edition Xbox controller. Rare has teamed up with 8BitDo, not Microsoft, for a special edition Xbox controller. is a senior editor and ...

Before the Xbox 360 arrived in 2006, using a gamepad on PC was a pretty annoying experience. You'd have to manually configure buttons, games wouldn't detect the controller or show the correct icons, ...

8BitDo unveiled the next generation of its flagship Ultimate controller series at CES 2026--and it now makes sense why the manufacturer hasn't released an Xbox version of the Ultimate 2. Officially ...

When the Xbox debuted in 2001 as competition for the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo consoles, it did so with a rather clunky, bulky wired controller that actually made the Guinness Book of World ...