LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter. It was love at first play. Since then, she has ...

The blue Sky Cipher controller also ships in new environmentally friendly Xbox packaging. The blue Sky Cipher controller also ships in new environmentally friendly Xbox packaging. is a senior editor ...

Microsoft knows it’s aging millennial audience perfectly well, because if there’s anything us nostalgic ‘90s children get all frothy about, it’s brightly colored, translucent technology. Announced ...

Remember in the 1990s and early 2000s when video game accessories and consoles came in transparent plastic shells? That stuff was so rad. And now, Xbox’s newest controller—launching in August—is ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Gamers looking for a new Xbox controller won’t have to wait much longer. Microsoft is releasing the Sky Cipher Special Edition controller in August 2024, with pre-orders starting on July 31st. The Sky ...

Ross Miller (he/him) is Polygon’s Senior Commerce Editor for the summer. He has nearly 20 years of experience in media and was a founding editor of The Verge. Intentionally or not, the new Xbox ...

The Xbox Adaptive Controller came into the gaming scene in 2018 after three years of conceptualization and development through Microsoft’s Inclusive Technologies Lab. Microsoft worked with ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A new controller for Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One consoles has leaked prior to an ...

Mark is a lifelong player of games and a longtime fan of the gaming industry. His favorite genre of game is Action-Adventure, and has been heavily into Souls-Likes since getting lost in the world of ...

While the controller that came with your Xbox Series X|S console will certainly do the job, you may be wondering if one of the many alternate controllers available would be a better fit. Some of the ...