Brian Crecente, provided by Published 12:00 pm PDT, Thursday, April 25, 2019 Photo: Variety Photo: Variety Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Photo: Variety Astro Gaming’s Jump From Headphones to a Gamepad 1 / 1 Back to Gallery More than a dozen years after launching as a premier video game peripheral company, Astro Gaming is finally getting around to the impetus for its creation: creating a game controller. The spark that inspired Astro Gaming’s creation was born out of work done by design shop Astro Studios to help to create the iconic look of the Xbox 360. Related stories APOS: HBO Go to Launch in Malaysia Xbox Sees Increase in Revenue Despite One-Third Drop in Hardware Sales Following the launch and relative success of the original Xbox, Microsoft approached Astro to help them come up with a design language for both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox 360 controller. After helping to create the controller, the company spun off Astro Gaming with an eye toward making their own controller. “When Astro Gaming was first founded we thought we were going to go into the esports gaming community and make a new controller,” Thadeous Cooper, Astro Gaming’s… Read full this story
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