Lou Contaldi specializes in both reviews and the business behind gaming. He began writing about tech and video games while getting his Juris Doctor at Hofstra University School of Law. He is maybe the ...

Truth is that the design of a video game console isn’t nearly as important as the device you need in your hands to interact with it. The video game controller has gotten many iterations over the years ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Microsoft’s Xbox One Design Lab controller program is brilliant. It literally lets you make the ...

The Xbox Design Lab now will carry out orders for the new Elite Series 2 Controller. This comes just weeks after Microsoft unveiled the Elite Series 2 Core; a new, white model of the Elite Series 2 ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Xbox Design Lab is a neat tool for fans that want to create their own controller designs. Unfortunately, Microsoft is shutting down the service from October 14th through sometime in 2021. Xbox fans ...

Back in October, Microsoft put the Xbox Design Lab on hold while it focused on getting a pair of new consoles and an updated controller into the hands of gamers. Eight months later, the custom Xbox ...

Microsoft added the ability for people to design their own Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 in the Xbox Design Lab. Starting today, you can customize and order this kind of controller on Xbox ...

Xbox Design Lab returns letting players customize their own Xbox Series X controllers starting today. The Xbox Design Lab program is a service Microsoft offers that lets players create a custom Xbox ...

Microsoft has finally brought back the Xbox Design Lab once again for the first time since December 2024, allowing players to create and purchase custom controllers for their consoles. Using this ...

Alan is an experienced culture, commerce, and tech author with a background in newspaper reporting. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Paste Magazine, The Escapist, ESPN, PC Gamer, and a ...