Novint ties-in wacky Falcon gaming peripheral with GLaDOS

You won’t catch me using Novint’s freaky-loo Falcon controller, which promises to let you feel weight, impact, recoil and inertia in the games it supports. I’m not getting burned on another PowerGlove, thank you very much. But you’ve got to hand it to Novint: they really do know how to package this thing to really tickle a gamer’s g-spot. Doubtlessly noticing that their Falcon controller looked quite a bit like a certain Aperture Science portal gun or one of GLaDOS’ ascetic, streamlined nodules, Novint has teamed up to package their Falcon controller with The Orange Box. It comes with an attachable pistol grip and ships for $189.99, yet offers the Falcon in black as well, somewhat squandering the genius Portal tie-in.

Truthfully, if anything were ever to get me to buy another flash-in-the-pan “revolutionary” controller, this would probably be the deal that would get me to do it… if I already didn’t own the Orange Box. Slather it in art-deco oxidized crud and tie it in to Bioshock, though, and I’ll throw caution to the wind.

Falcon Orange Box Package [Novint via Crunchgear]

1. [strider_mt2k]

   This is a triumph…

2. [John Brownlee]

   I’m making a note here…

3. [Enochrewt]

   HUGE SUCCESS!

4. [Tensegrity]

   So what would the special controller for adult interactive software look like?

5. [Lonin]

   C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

6. [Parkingtigers]

   Tensegrity, for you there will be no cake.

7. [Keneke]

   I can’t figure out how this works.

8. [Gia]

   GLaDOS! yay!
   I loved the Orange box! Valve!!

   CAKE!

9. [Enochrewt]

   #7: Actually, I can’t figure out how it works either. I didn’t say anything because I wanted to sing instead.

10. [Anonyman]

    Device in-use:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx7XJtcfYU4

11. [eustace]

    Ask YouTube, Tensegrity, and you will find:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfrMalBiXuY&NR=1

    NSFW

12. [Agent 86]

    Eustace, I dream of a world where that is SFW.

13. [eustace]

    Oh, me too, but I’d settle in the short term for having BB available at work. ‘Course, less work would get done per unit time…

14. [Anonymous]

    yeah I guess it’s going to depend on how many games they get.. EA and Valve are signed up afaik, maybe 1 or 2 more heavy hitters will prevent it from going the way of the PowerGlove (rofl that the author actually bought one of those)

    I saw it at GDC… apparently it’s a robotic arm and uses haptic technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic, so it’s pretty high-tech the pistol grip was sweet