SRK contest produces a 26-button Starcraft II arcade controller, probably won't stop

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/07/starcraft-ii-arcade-stick.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/06/srk-contest-produces-a-26-button-starcraft-ii-arcade-controller/)Almost as a dare, Shoryuken (SRK) challenged its fans to produce a fighting game-style controller forStarcraft II. Mauricio Romano took them up on that contest and won with a surprisingly polished arcade stick (http://www.engadget.com/tag/arcadestick/) of his own. Its cornerstone is a heavily modified Ultrastik joystick that's turned into an on-controller, two-button mouse. You didn't think a PC gamer would cling to a plain joystick, did you? In the process, the usual 101 keys of a typical keyboard have been pared down to a set of 26 buttons most relevant for Blizzard's (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Blizzard/) real-time strategy epic. Packaged up in a single, polished USB peripheral, the one-off prototype's design is good enough to imagine a Major League Gaming (http://www.engadget.com/tag/MajorLeagueGaming/) pro taking it out on the road. We'd put that idea on ice for now, though: as Mauricio shows in the video below, the learning curve is steep enough that most players won't be fending off diamond-league marine and zergling blitzes anytime soon.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/06/srk-contest-produces-a-26-button-starcraft-ii-arcade-controller/