Peter Grimm has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. Since 2011, he has channeled that passion into writing about games, culminating in his current role as a writer and editor for ...

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS directly from a USB drive, but is that the right approach? Here are the pros and cons.

Yeah, all USB gamepads and controllers that I'm aware of follow the USB HID (human interface device) standard, and so should work with Linux. The only exception is the Microsoft XBox controller, which ...

Sony published a kernel driver for Linux that will be used to support PlayStation hardware like the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller. The driver will allow Linux users to use Sony’s new controller ...

The “hid-sony” driver has been available on Linux for a while. According to Phoronix, Sony has released a new “hid-playstation” driver today to include support for DualSense controllers, as well as ...

Exhibit A: The Xbox One S controller, my personal pad of choice since it’s ridiculously comfortable and includes Bluetooth connectivity. Exhibit B: The rechargeable Nintendo Switch Pro controller, a ...

The upcoming Linux kernel release, version 6.15, will be arriving in the next month or so, and I'm already seeing previews of what to expect. One of them is recently merged support for several gaming ...

Academics say they discovered 26 new vulnerabilities in the USB driver stack employed by operating systems such as Linux, MacOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. The research team, made up by Hui Peng from ...