In the wake of the successful Nintendo Switch and Valve Steam Deck, we have seen a wave of PC-based, Android-based, and even FPGA-based handheld gaming systems that can sometimes be hard to tell apart ...

Because of their traditionally larger size, trackball switches have seen slow adoption, at best, into high-performance portable and handheld devices�leaving designers with less-reliable, ...

In a nutshell: Atari is teaming up with retro gaming company My Arcade on one of the most peculiar handheld game systems in recent memory. The Gamestation Go, teased in an X post ahead of CES, is all ...

Whether you’re looking to reduce strain on your wrist or simply like the idea of whizzing through documents and websites with ease, choosing the best trackball mouse for you will depend on whether you ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Have you ever used a trackball? If you suffer from wrist ...

Like many ergonomic products, trackballs are an acquired taste—often, acquired by sheer painful necessity. It can feel strange to switch from using a mouse, which feels like an extension of your arm, ...

With the maneuverability of just one finger, joysticks have become a standard for four-, five- and nine-way navigation (up, down, left, right, diagonal, and enter). New designs are incorporating ...

For most people, the right is their most precise hand, and thus makes sense to do the knob twisting (steady on). Perhaps enough years of gaming with the joystick on the left might have trained the ...