Check out this mini Xbox controller which has been designed just for Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming service, and totally looks the part!

Nintendo has today relaunched its popular miniature NES Classic Edition, with 8BitDo also announcing that it has a new wireless controller ready for the new micro console and it’s available to pre-order right now.

With mobile gaming on the rise, it makes perfect sense that consumers are going to want to accelerate their gaming expertise by leaving the fiddly small-screen behind in favor of a dedicated gaming controller targeted toward mobile devices. With the release and continued success of the Apple TV 4, which comes with its own App Store and therefore is ushering in a new era of mobile gaming, there’s now an even bigger onus on picking the right gaming controller for your gaming habits. For those that are looking, the SteelSeries Nimbus Wireless is one of the best controllers out there, and to add to that fact, it is now available at a 30% discount.

For quite a while now, rumor and speculation have suggested that Apple could be planning to release its very own gaming controller for iOS. Third parties, if you’ll excuse the pun, seem way ahead of the game in this respect, with many vendors and developers already supporting the traditional physical peripheral, but if Apple were to go ahead and bring its own official offering, it could be a real game-changer. According to mutterings at WWDC, the Cupertino is plotting exactly that, but not on its own, and with some documentation for iOS 7 pertaining to a Game Controller having just popped up on the dev site, official physical gaming controller support is about to become a reality starting from iOS 7.