Many of you have likely heard that some lucky people have managed to get a hold of CoD: Modern Warfare 2 early. Our venerable Australian contributor so happens to be one of those lucky people. (more…)

Yes, it is I, SAKY! I am alive and well, just short on funds and as a result short on coverage material. So donate if you can!

We got our hands on the early demo today and, as suspected, there is nothing new added in way of control options for the second installment of Left 4 Dead. I’m glad that Valve has added Legacy out of the box this year. If you recall the original was given Legacy via a patch over XBL. I WAS hoping for a little more from this year’s installment of frantic zombie slaying but it’s almost a given that little will come of hope alone.

As always, a screen shot of the stick options can be found at the end of this post. Note that the “Y” button toggles the Legacy controls, same as the original game.

Happy Gaming folks. (more…)

Some good news for all of you lefties – Borderlands sports the Southpaw* configuration. (more…)

The multi-player demo of Uncharted 2 gives the possibility to swap the left with the right stick. You can also swap L1 with R1 and L2 with R2.

Unfortunately full customization is not available - I would have liked to swap for example the jump button. But at least Uncharted 2 does improve from the first edition, which had basically no possibilities to adapt the controls, though the Legacy and Legacy-Southpaw schemes have been left out again.

I’m definitely looking forward to this game coming out on October 13 in the USA and October 16 in Europe. (more…)

Given that Halo 3: ODST is an expansion, I’m sure that none of you were concerned about the control options, though I did want to post a quick confirmation that this game offers the usual settings seen in past games from the series. (more…)

So it seems that I have some good news to report on for a change: the latest beta for Zipper Interactive’s MMOFPS, MAG, has included both Southpaw and Legacy controls.

The game is currently looking at an early 2010 release.

[Thanks, CyrusQ]

A2M’s WET will arrive on retail shelves next week, though a demo has been floating around on the Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Network for a while now.

Unfortunately, Southpaw and Legacy controls were not present in the demo. The options for the full game, in all likelihood, won’t be any different.

Sorry, folks. At least ODST isn’t too far off.

[Thanks, SouthpawMadness]

Today I was sent a link to a thread that one of our members started on the EA Forums requesting the inclusion of Legacy in Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

This is a good opportunity to add your two cents on the issue if you would like to see DICE offer the Legacy scheme, or better yet, completely customizable controls in this forthcoming FPS.

DICE has taken strides in the past to make their games more accessible by getting in touch with us directly for feedback on game controls, and by offering the Southpaw scheme in recent titles. Hopefully with a few gentle nudges from you folks, we’ll eventually see all four stick layouts in their products.

Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger, the FPS / RTS hybrid for the Xbox 360, does not offer alternate control configurations.

I somewhat expected Legacy to be left out, although I’m a bit perplexed about the omission of Southpaw, and this is an example of a game where players really could have benefited from full controller customization due to the strategy elements and dual perspectives.

I just downloaded the Section 8 demo and much to my happiness it offers 8 different control settings which include Legacy, Southpaw and Legacy-southpaw!

It seems like TimeGate Studios have pulled through for us so now we can all enjoy this decent looking game when it comes out at retail in a few days.

Hopefully this will make up for the lack of controls that the recently released Wolfenstein offered.