Grave Gamer News & Views — controller

Only 5,000 of you will get ahold of this Fallout controller

The Bethesda Store is holding a sale through Monday where lone wanderers can get 20% off shirts, trinkets, art books, and the like.

Additionally, running from today till Friday, the store will offer up super limited items, all Fallout themed. All are nifty items, sure, but tomorrow’s exclusive takes the radiation baked cake: a Vault Boy styled Xbox One controller (in all its glory, up above). Of which only 5,000 were made.

It’s too damn cool. A novelty no dignified Fallout obsessive can do without. I can’t even count myself among that crowd and I want one. If only there was a PS4 counterpart… (That’s a hint, Bethesda. I’m hinting you should make one).

UPDATED: She gone, folks. Mayhaps it’ll return to the store. Mayhaps Death Claws will roll over and die at the very sight of you. It’s not impossible (just very highly improbable).

Wii U’s New Fangled Controller Gets a Little More New Fangled

Hmm, look at this number.  There’s some slight shifting of buttons administered for the sake of comfort, but the best and most obvious improvement is the addition of analog sticks in favor of those bullshitty slider-nubs from the original design and currently tainting the 3DS.  I still don’t see how fighting games can be pulled off with ease (sorry, touch screen controls can’t silence my concerns) but overall, I’m interested in seeing what this puppy can do, and whether or not if it’s as indestructible as Nintendo products of yore.

I’d cross the Wii U off as a necessity if the company had Reggie Fils-Aime take the stage at E3, start a doodle of Mario on the tablet, stop, back a pickup truck over it a few times (four is a safe number – seven if you’re going for the “wow”), pick up the unharmed controller, and finish his drawing, signing it “Whazzup bitches?”

I’m a simple man with simple wants.

Where the hell was this when I needed it most?  Look at the ingenuity and convenience of the buttons spread all over the goddamn place.  Craftsmanship.