{"id":47056,"date":"2012-11-08T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T08:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=47056"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T08:52:00","slug":"nvidia-nyko-bring-gamepad-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/47056-nvidia-nyko-bring-gamepad-to-android","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia, Nyko bring gamepad to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Nvidia and Nyko have teamed up to bring a console-like gamepad to Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>The Nyko PlayPad is an adaptor\/controller that connects to your Android smartphone, giving a level of control and precision when that touch scheme just doesn\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>The controller was co-created with Nvidia, and prioritised for games running on TEGRA 2 and TEGRA 3 chips.<\/p>\n<p>The PlayPad comes with Nyko\u2019s Playground app, which allows users to customise and tweak the controller layout.<\/p>\n<p>Features Include:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Easily control your favorite tablet games with console like precision<\/li>\n<li>Optimized HID protocol for Tegra 3 based devices and games<\/li>\n<li>Includes Nyko\u2019s free Playground app with the ability to customize controller layout and download game profiles for older titles<\/li>\n<li>Playground supports the following controller input: Keyboard Mapping, Mouse, Touch Event Mapping<\/li>\n<li>HID, Keyboard mapping, mouse emulation, and touch mapping support make PlayPad Pro compatible with 100s of titles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Nyko Playpad is currently listed on Amazon for $34.78 (R300).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bUKACWCiy0U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nykoplayground.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Nyko Playground <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46386-benq-launches-gaming-focussed-monitors-in-sa.html\">BenQ launches gaming-focussed monitors in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/45672-free-assassins-creed-iii-with-evga-geforce-gtx-650-ti-in-sa-pricing.html\">Free Assassin\u2019s Creed III with EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti in SA: pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44968-nvidia-next-generation-of-consoles-will-be-the-last.html\">Nvidia: \u201cNext generation of consoles will be the last\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/43023-best-priced-graphics-cards-in-south-africa.html\">Best priced graphics cards in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/43295-google-nexus-7-tablet-pc-review.html\">Google Nexus 7 tablet PC review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android gaming just got a lot more control<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":47058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,7631,7632,7633,1163,45,4830,7630],"class_list":["post-47056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-android-controller","tag-android-gamepad","tag-mobile-gamepad","tag-mobile-gaming","tag-nvidia","tag-nyko","tag-nyko-playpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}