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Extra buttons, customization, and Hall-effect for $50? Yep.

Hyperkin just announced that their premium gaming controller, The Competitor, is now shipping out across North America and select global territories. This controller, which somehow retails for just $49.99 comes packed with Hall-effect sensors in the sticks and triggers, swappable thumbsticks, and dual programmable back buttons. The Competitor's price brings it well under the MSRP cost of first-party controller offerings...

A $100 controller with Hall effect sticks and back triggers.

Another entry into the affordable yet "premium" controller landscape was just announced. SCUF Gaming unveiled their SCUF Valor Pro Wired Performance Controller for Xbox and PC. Featuring premium features such as Hall effect sticks, remappable back paddles, and dedicated audio controls this controller has a retail price of just $99.99.

The SCUF Valor Pro Wired controller will be available in a variety...

They will be some of the first officially licensed Xbox gamepads with Hall-effect sensors.

If you ever experienced stick drift on any of your gamepads over the years, you know just how annoying it can be. Thankfully, peripheral designer and manufacturer Snakebyte is trying to get rid of that annoyance once and for all with a series of new, officially licensed Xbox controllers with Hall effect sensors.

Hall effect sensors are the best sensor type that you can possibly get...

Those darned "supply disruptions" are also impacting controller availability.

We already knew about the supply shortages of things like CPUs, GPUs, and consoles over the past couple of years, but here's one thing you probably didn't think about being impacted: Controllers. Due to "supply disruptions" Xbox controllers are also in short supply with many major retailers being completely sold out for all of June.

Microsoft admits the issue to VGC, who says...

A great controller for those who love the color blue.

Today, Microsoft announced the new Aqua Shift Special Edition Xbox Wireless Controller. The company says that this special controller features "a surreal, color-shifting blue shimmer that you need to see to believe."

Beyond the cool blue shimmer effect going on, this controller is the first Special Edition Xbox Series X|S controller to feature "rubberized side grips with a unique dual color swirl on every...

The latest from NACON will be available on May 20 in North America.

NACON just announced today the world's first Xbox One controller that supports Dolby Atmos for headphones. This controller is called the RIG PRO Compact and is a customizable wired controller that will be made available to North American players on May 20.

Dolby Atmos offers up 3D sound to the listener. Some say that this allows the player to react more accurately. As someone who has used positional audio...

Valve just released a new set of charts today as a follow-up to their "Best of 2018" lists from earlier this week. Today's lists provide a look at some the best "controller-friendly" games that players enjoyed throughout 2018. In a weird twist, Valve broke down the games based on the controller that was used to play them: Xbox controller, PlayStation 4 controller, Steam controller, and the Switch Pro controller.

Valve broke each of the pages down into three...