Truth is that the design of a video game console isn’t nearly as important as the device you need in your hands to interact with it. The video game controller has gotten many iterations over the years ...

Jeff has been hopping on Goombas and collecting Triforce shards since the late NES era. Today, he appreciates all things console games - with a slight favoritism towards his Nintendo franchises. He's ...

I'm not typically one for customization. When an RPG gives me the option to retool my character—his face, his size, his shape, the color of his nose hairs—I just hit the "randomize" button and take ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

A new Fallout controller option has arrived on Xbox Design Lab today. The Fallout skin features Vault Boy in many different poses and there are button color presets that represent the colors of the ...

Back in October, Microsoft put the Xbox Design Lab on hold while it focused on getting a pair of new consoles and an updated controller into the hands of gamers. Eight months later, the custom Xbox ...

Xbox Design Lab is back with the ability to make up your own custom controllers, this time for the new wireless controller that launched alongside the Series X / S. Ever since Microsoft launched the ...

Microsoft added the ability for people to design their own Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 in the Xbox Design Lab. Starting today, you can customize and order this kind of controller on Xbox ...

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Microsoft is bringing back its custom-controller webstore after taking some time off to retool it. Xbox Design Lab is available now, and it uses the updated Xbox Series X/S gamepad. This newer ...

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You can head to the Xbox Design Lab right now to design your own Xbox Elite Series 2 controller starting at $149.99. The Xbox’s latest Elite pro controller just got some more flavor. Microsoft ...