Microsoft’s new Xbox controller borrows great ideas from Stadia, Steam, and Sony

Microsoft’s new core gamepad, codenamed Sebile, may become the new default Xbox gamepad in May 2024. | Image via court documents, text removed by The VergeNew Xbox for 2024! New hybrid Xbox for 2028! But can we just appreciate Microsoft’s leaked Sebile controller for a sec? The $70 pad could arrive in 2024 chock-full of the best parts of Sony’s DualSense, Valve’s Steam Controller, Google Stadia, and — here’s hoping — 8BitDo. Image: FTC v. Microsoft“Sebile — The New Xbox Controller.”Obviously, it’s taking the Sony DualSense’s “precision haptic feedback.”Right, here’s hoping! It’s the thing I’m most excited about because it seriously does add a new dimension to some of Sony’s games, which just aren’t the same when you take it away.Check out our DualSense X-ray below, versus this one of an Xbox pad, to see the difference in their haptic motors:V…

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Microsoft’s new Xbox controller borrows great ideas from Stadia, Steam, and Sony

Local LLMs perform so much better when you teach them to ask before they answer

I replaced my desktop with a Snapdragon X2 Plus laptop, and the only thing I missed was the GPU

I stopped treating Claude like a chatbot, and it became my best co-worker

These PC building “best practices” are costing you money and doing nothing for your rig

I ditched cloud smart home devices for local control, and my house finally works

Picking a Linux distro is the wrong first question — here’s what you should ask instead

The man behind the legendary MPC, Roger Linn, stays focused with a single browser tab

Rockstar is in no hurry to release GTA 6 on PC, and leaked numbers explain exactly why

I ditched LM Studio for llama.cpp, and my local LLM doesn’t feel like a downgrade anymore

Most gamers aren’t actually using DLSS 4.5’s new transformer model — here’s why and how to fix it

Linux on the desktop isn’t winning, but Linux on my handheld already has

Record Club is trying to be Letterboxd for music nerds

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