If you loved the latest iCade controllers for iPhone and iPad, you are going to want to have sex with their new iCade 8-Bitty, which has just been presented at NYC’s Toy Fair 2012. It’s a Nintendo-style controller with eight buttons.
Remember Apple’s first iPad 2 ads where folks are drooling all over the GarageBand app? Yeah, you’re still playing on a freaking iPad. But iCade just dropped a bunch of gear that lets you use the iPad to actually play instead of tapping a screen.
iPhone gaming’s great and all, but it’s still hard to get over the on-screen touch controls when the screen’s only 3.5 inches. Ion’s new iCade Mobile let’s you basically jam your phone into the body of a PSP and play without cluttering your screen with your own damn fingers.
Ion Audio’s new iCade peripherals look really cool. I’ve been playing with the iCade for months now, and it’s great in every sense except the game support. Until the awesome iMame retro arcade emulator came along, most of the games sucked.
Macrumors reports on Atari’s latest bit of hardware, which is set to take on the iCade in the iPad video game controller stakes.
I’m not good at video games. And while I don’t even attempt to figure out most of today’s crazy-ass console games, I can certainly appreciate some old school arcade-style button mashing. Ion Audio’s iCade brings that familiar satisfaction to your iPad.
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The iPad, the future of computing, touchscreen this, touchscreen that, yadda yadda, blahblahblah. BLAH. What about connecting it to a joystick to get an instant mini-arcade machine? That’s what Hideyoshi Moriya did, using Arduino circuitry and cardboard. Imagine the possibilities:
