iPhone getting game thanks to the iControlpad

[wraggster]

iPhone gaming aficionados -- your wildest dreams will soon be coming to fruition. Apparently, CraigX (one of the masterminds behind the Pandora project) is also busy whipping up a physical control pad add-on for the Apple device. The peripheral -- dubbed the iControlpad, of course -- will attach to the dock connector on the bottom of the phone and wrap around the sides, and is said to provide a PSX-like feel. The pad's site claims that compatibility is already built in to popular iPhone game emulators, and units are being sent out to other developers as well. The model pictured here is a prototype design -- but frankly, they had us at "Hello."

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/05/icontrolpad.jpg

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/23/iphone-getting-game-thanks-to-the-icontrolpad/

[IndianCheese]

THANK F*CKING GOD

I predicted the hell out of this. Hopefully the SDK will allow implementation of command button reception, and hopefully it will support the iPod touch as well. Why did they have to make it right-landscape instead of left-landscape (the default for quite a few apps)?

[-Xandu-]

That'd make it bulkier? Just like the bluky huge PSP!!

[Man]

I hope that the thing is resealed commercially rather that some DIY kit, that requires soldering or other sillyness, i would pay good money for one of these things.

[Kevin87]

it will be released commercially.