ICade Mobile and iCade Core: both the iPhone do PSP, from the iPad - slot machine

IGadzhetov opportunities to turn into full-fledged gaming console not only touch, but also with the physical control, there are already a lot. To do this, invented special accessories such as removable joystick BladePad for iPhone and iPod touch or 8-bitty iCade for iPad from the line.

Moreover, in the range iCade, new, very interesting hardware controllers, namely, iCade Mobile for the iPhone / iPod touch and iCade Core for iPad. According to TechCrunch, they cost a lot - $ 80 and $ 100, respectively, but at the same time provide a completely new experience and impressions of iOS-games.

iCade Mobile is a kind of cover, equipped with a joystick-type D-pad and gaming hardware buttons. "Layout" classical style on the PSP. That is, the controls are arranged on both sides of the display on which game action takes place. By the way, iCade Mobile can be used in landscape or in portrait orientation - depending on the game type.

The design of the manipulator for iPad, iCade Core, quite different from that in the above-described accessory. It is designed as a docking station for the plate, which is equipped with conventional arcade joystick and large round keys for controlling the game process. This accessory is bundled with the iPad resembles a real slot machine, familiar to many from his childhood, only in miniature.

Of course, the touch screen is good as a manipulator for a specific product category. But in the game in the genre of action in a race or adventure arcade is still more convenient to play with a physical joystick and buttons. I should add that the iCade Mobile interacts with the iPhone / iPod touch via Bluetooth. Both of the gadget supports 400 games, there are plenty to choose from.