XPadder emulates a mouse and keyboard with the buttons and directional thumbpad of your game controller. It supports multiple profiles, rumble feedback, and chorded input, which allows for more ...

8BitDo's Ultimate Bluetooth Controller is built to avoid the scourge of stick drift, and it's a quality gamepad in most of the other areas that count, too.

Just not necessarily very well. Through a long iterative process, the Steam Controller ended up with a thumbstick and ABXY face buttons, a disappointing hybrid of a better gamepad and a real PC mouse.

This week at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, a small group of hackers figured out a way to reverse engineer a Wii U GamePad to allow PC game streaming directly to the controller.

Premium controllers are a risky proposition: what if I fork out AU$350 on a fully-featured gamepad only for the analog sticks to start drifting, or the face buttons to start sticking?