Tag Archives: Mouse and Keyboard

Geoffrey Tim

Nobody plays shooters with a mouse and keyboard anymore!

February 18, 2013 at 1:30 pm | 92 Comments

Since Halo’s come around, nobody plays shooters the way they used to, and nobody uses a mouse and keyboard for first person games any more. That’s the bold claim from Halo and Destiny developer Bungie’s co-founder Jason Jones. A claim, I’m sure, many of you will take umbrage at.


Geoffrey Tim

Blizzard fuelling Diablo III’s console fire, says controls are better than PC

September 22, 2011 at 11:30 am | 22 Comments

Blizzard’s main staples have increasingly become PC only. While Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo have all graced consoles before, their newest iterations are all chained to the click-centric mouse-and-keyboard confines of the PC. Real-Time Strategy games are undoubtedly best using a mouse and keyboard; analogue thumb-sticks aren’t particularly well suited to panning over maps at speed - but Diablo’s different.

As a click-heavy action RPG, it could actually be even better on consoles, something even Blizzard considers.

LittleBigPlanet 2 to have full Keyboard and Mouse Integration

Gavin Mannion

LittleBigPlanet 2 to have full Keyboard and Mouse Integration

May 12, 2010 at 7:30 am | 3 Comments

This seems to be a little golden nugget that many of us missed about the upcoming LittleBigPlanet 2.

While the Move controllers will be the perfect design tools for level creation there is another tool that you all have in your hands right now that will work just as well. Something that the PS3 also has always catered for.


Geoffrey Tim

BioShock 2 Proves PC Gamers are Whiny, Impossible to Please

February 15, 2010 at 2:30 pm | 8 Comments

When games are made with consoles primarily in mind – and let’s be honest, this is an increasing trend – PC gamers will launch into a tirade about how developers are pandering to the larger console market, forgoing their roots, dumbing down games and saying rude things about their mums. Doing their best to offset the PC gamer hate, BioShock 2 developers 2K Marin specifically tailored the game and its User Interface to meet the exacting standards of PC Gamers, and to better suit Keyboard/Mouse controls. In doing so, they nixed controller support from the game – inciting PC gamer hate.