The XBox 360 controller is really one of the best gamepad ever made for any console out there. The best part is it works on computers as well, where past efforts by various companies to produce a good gamepad has always fell short. You can’t fully realize the XBox 360 controller’s potential just yet on the PC though, as full support won’t arrive until Windows Vista. The current PC drivers can’t take advantage of all the buttons, and has trouble dealing with several of the input axis (getting analog stick & the paddle trigger to work, for example, is an exercise of frustration).
Of course, Microsoft isn’t offering a driver for the Mac. However, just as SteerMouse provides an excellent third party solution for enhancing your mouse on the Mac, there are third party driver for getting the XBox 360 controller to work on your Mac as well. Spotty game support is more of an issue, but I’d imagine most of us will just be playing emulator games with that controller anyway.
Take a look at the Mac driver for the XBox 360 controller here.
According to Wired, Multiverse has signed a deal with Fox, securing the right to make a MMO based on Firefly. I’m holding cautious enthusiasm right now, since Multiverse has not to this date, produced any games on their own. Instead, Multiverse’s business plan so far has been providing the platform (some may say “game engine”, but there platform is a more appropriate phrase, because the background infrastructure is much more massive compared to say, a FPS game) for developers to make their own MMO’s. I’m a bit unclear if Multiverse is planning to make this themselves, or maybe they’re going to license it to one of the game developers currently using their platform.
Read more about the deal here (Wired).
Apparently, the guy who brought us Napster is also going to be bringing us a whole new social network for World of Warcraft. The software will be called “Rupture”, and unlike wowhead, thottbot and the likes, it will be able to pull data directly from WoW servers instead of being an externally managed database. Sounds interesting. Read the whole story at WoWInsider.
Read the whole story here.
