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Mad Catz launches GameSmart — universal peripherals for smartphones, tablets, PCs, and TVs

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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GameSmart

If you’ve ever tried to get a single video game controller to work with your smartphone, tablet, laptop, and TV, you’ve probably come away frustrated. To deal with that, game peripheral maker Mad Catz Interactive has proposed its GameSmart initiative to make it possible to use wireless peripherals across all major platforms.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.