It seems it’s now the law. Once, a keyboard was a simple tool acting as the interface between you and your computer. That was deemed simply not enough.
Now, from the humble computer keyboard, you need one-touch buttons to control much of your computer’s talents. Music? Check. Web access? Yup. There’s even a thing called F-Lock [...]
Hardened gamers who want to use a gamepad with their PC will happily tell you that the best route is to get an adapter that allows a PlayStation 2 pad to be used in a USB port. Still, that would perhaps be unfair on the nicely evolving range of Logitech pads, which do offer a [...]
A few years ago, the Swedish car company, Saab, unveiled an experimental prototype car that featured a joystick instead of a steering wheel. Little has been heard of it since. For playing games on your PC the common or garden joystick is unbeatable for general-purpose versatility. But if you’re seriously into car racing games or [...]