great story bro

I honestly do not value a lot of work of Kotaku with high regard. Will give this a more thorough read but I am expecting a lot of vague suggestions and only kotaku-is-da-best-website-evar comments

It would have to be $20 or less for me to be willing to try it. I hate trackpads.

It seems good, except for one fatal flaw - You're still only using 4 fingers.

On a keyboard and mouse you get to use at least seven fingers - All five on the left and two on the right.

On a controller you're limited to two thumbs and two index fingers on the shoulder buttons.

I don't understand in what ways would it be hackable

Like, how would you hack it and what would you gain from hacking it? :|

Tommy, programmer from TeamMeat - creators of Super Meat Boy(known for its tight controls)

It's ugly but as long as it works nice I don't really mind. I'll leave my opinions to when I get to use one.

WARNING: Link is to Kotaku.

EDIT: YAY! You added my warning Hillary.

It's strange how people miss the fact they can get a PC instead of overpriced garbage :)
And yes you can use controllers with your PC if you are not old enough to know what the letters mean on the keyboard.

'If you were to ask me to choose between Steam Controller and a 360 controller, I would choose 360. Don’t take that as slight to the controller though because it’s more about the comfort of familiarity over functionality.'

Pretty much no reason to switch to it, exactly what I was expecting.

All the advanced trackpad haptics in the world won't save you from my mouse+Kb headshot.

"[...] We configured the controller to play like an Xbox controller. So the left circle pad was once again used for the directional buttons, and the right circle pad was used as A, B, X, Y buttons in the orientation that you find on an Xbox Controller [...]"

This, coming from Team Meat, combined with earlier comments in the article about the "uncanny" tactility of the circle pads (feeling like actual buttons or trackballs or whatever -- totally feasible if they have the precision haptics that it sounds like they do), does a lot to assuage my worries about the controller. The physical AB button placement is awful without this knowledge that the controller can be used in this way.

Edit: From the paragraph following that quote though, sounds like Refenes still prefers the X360 controller, mostly for the physicality of the buttons.
And what I'd really love to see is Valve bringing in top notch fighting game players -- to me, that type of game is the biggest test of a controller.

Edit 2: Looks like Surfix helpfully linked Tommy Refenes's full post on the controller earlier. :)

It looks cool. That's why I want it. Thought it would end up gathering dust... I prefer mouse and keyboard precision :)

Meh... Looks next- gen, im just gonna stick to mouse and keyboard.

I have never used a gamepad, could be the first gamepad I'll use.

Hey, Hillary. Can you use your political influence to help us get into GabeCube beta?

PS3 gamepad is much better.

Do you think they will be good for controlling your drones Hilary ? ;)

Dunno if someone already stated this, but how on earth am I supposed to keep moving left or right and press the buttons near the left track pad at the same time w/o letting go of the direction ??

Like I already said in some places but apparently not here (yet), I need dis!

It could be a good compromise for playing FPS and RTS with a controller, it could be nice to be able to sit in your lounge and play these games on a controller that isn't completely useless, but it'll still never replace the mouse+keyboard on my desktop setup.

Saw this photo of you in the paper and it reminded me of you, you sexy thing. That is all.

tweaked?