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 ...

If you’re a console gamer or generally prefer playing with controllers, you probably recognize the term stick drift. This horrifying phenomenon plagues almost every first-party controller from brands ...

The Hyperkin Competitor was first teased back in 2019, but now it’s finally official and with a Hall effect upgrade. The Hyperkin Competitor was first teased back in 2019, but now it’s finally ...

There’s no shame in missing the chonky controllers from the 90s and early aughts. To fully appreciate Hyperkin’s DuchesS name for its controller in development, we have to take a brief stop to revisit ...

As Snakebyte mentions, stick drift with conventional analog sticks is caused by wear-prone potentiometers and mechanical friction. In contrast, Hall effect sensors operate completely contactless, ...

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Why it matters: Joystick drift has plagued Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation gamepads for years, but third-party vendors have started transitioning to alternate technology to solve the problem.

Xbox released its February update, the highlight being touch control support for consoles streaming games. The update also allows the user to calibrate the thumbstick to alleviate stick drift, ...

It is far too often the case that failed hardware components lead to unnecessary disposal. That means another expensive purchase for you and more stuff sitting in landfills for the Earth. Thankfully, ...