Don't THROW AWAY your mouse and keyboard yet! - Arkade Blaster

**The Arcade Motion Blaster: A New Era of Gaming**

In the world of gaming, innovation is always pushing boundaries. From the humble beginnings of the mouse and keyboard to the evolution of controllers, we’ve seen countless advancements in gaming technology. But what if there was a device that could revolutionize the way we play games? Something immersive, exciting, and groundbreaking?

That’s exactly what the Arcade Motion Blaster promises to be. Designed as a motion controller shaped like a gun, this device is set to redefine gaming experiences across PC, mobile, and console platforms. The creators at Arcades claim that this isn’t just another gadget—it’s a game-changer that offers an unparalleled level of immersion.

### What Is the Arcade Motion Blaster?

The Arcade Motion Blaster is a cutting-edge motion controller that combines high-precision technology with intuitive gameplay mechanics. It boasts features like:

- **High-Precision Gyroscope**: Ensures accurate tracking of movements.

- **Low Latency Bluetooth**: Provides seamless connectivity for real-time gaming.

- **Haptic Feedback**: Enhances the gaming experience with tactile feedback, making every action feel more immersive.

- **Rechargeable Battery**: No need for constant charging—this device is built to last through long gaming sessions.

The Arcade Motion Blaster is designed to work with some of the most popular games on PC and mobile, including titles like *Doom Eternal*, *Call of Duty*, *Fortnite*, *PUBG*, *Valorant*, *Counter-Strike* (on PC), and *Fortnite*, *Modern Combat*, *Shadowgun*, and *Roblox* (on mobile). While it’s optimized for these games, the device is also touted as being compatible with any game, thanks to its versatile design.

### The Unboxing Experience

Getting your hands on the Arcade Motion Blaster feels like holding a piece of the future. It’s lightweight yet sturdy, with a sleek design that fits comfortably in the hand. The adjustable phone holder adds another layer of customization, allowing you to position your device for optimal gameplay. Whether you’re sniping from a distance or engaging in close combat, this controller adapts to your needs.

The physical buttons and joystick are strategically placed for easy access, making it intuitive to navigate menus and perform actions during gameplay. The abundance of buttons (labeled ABCDEFGH) offers flexibility, as they can be remapped to suit individual preferences.

### Setting It Up

Before diving into the games, you’ll need to pair your Arcade Motion Blaster with your device. Powering it on reveals a colorful RGB light show—a visual confirmation that the device is ready to connect. Once paired, you’re free to explore the gaming world.

For mobile users, games like *Shadowgun War Games* offer a unique experience. The controller’s motion tracking and haptic feedback make every shot feel more impactful. However, as one of the hosts discovered, mastering the aiming mechanics takes some time. “It definitely takes some getting used to,” they admitted, struggling with headshots in the game.

### Gameplay Experience

The hosts put the Arcade Motion Blaster through its paces, testing it in both *Shadowgun War Games* and *Fortnite*. The controller’s ability to track movements accurately was impressive, especially when looking around corners or strafing enemies. However, there were moments where the precision wasn’t quite on point—something that could be improved with further calibration.

In *Fortnite*, the device proved to be a mixed bag. While it handled movement and aiming well, the lack of direct correlation between physical movements and in-game actions was noticeable. “It’s more like a big joystick,” one host remarked, highlighting the need for better alignment between real-world motions and virtual actions.

Despite these minor hiccups, the overall experience was nothing short of thrilling. The hosts found themselves immersed in the game world, with every movement translating to on-screen action. It was clear that they were having fun, even if it took some time to get used to the controller’s quirks.

### Conclusion

The Arcade Motion Blaster is a bold step forward in gaming technology, offering an immersive and intuitive way to interact with games. While it’s not perfect yet—there’s room for improvement in terms of precision and calibration—it shows immense potential. For gamers looking to break free from traditional controllers and experience the next level of immersion, this could be the device they’ve been waiting for.

As one host aptly put it, “This is definitely a cool experience.” Whether you’re a seasoned gamer or just dipping your toes into the world of competitive gaming, the Arcade Motion Blaster is worth trying. With continued development and refinement, it’s poised to become a game-changer in the industry.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- A mouse and keyboard.A controller.These are the tools of the gamer,but is that really the bestthat we can do as a society?What if there wassomething that allowed fora more immersive andexciting gameplay experiencethan anything you'veever experienced before?What if that was a thing?Well, today we have that thing.Ladies and gentlemen, and other people,this is...the arcade motion blaster.It's a motion controller shaped like a gunbecause you can use itin games that have guns in them.The people at arcadessay that this thing canenable the type of immersive,you know,crazy, mind-blowing gaming experiencesthat you just can't get with a,with a mouse and keyboard.So we're gonna try it out todayand see whether...it's good.Brandon are you excited?- So excited.- Big gamer, huh?- Big, huge gamer.- You don't play games.- No.- But maybe if you had this thing.- Only if I had that thing.- If you had this thing maybeyou'd get all the head shots.- That's the qualifier.(gun banging noises)- Every time.How it works.Mobile, PC, and motion tracking.All three of those things.That's how it works, incase you were wondering.It's got a high, high-precision gyroscope,low latency bluetooth,haptic feedback, (buzzingsound) like that.Rechargeable battery, I should hope so.Works with the top PC and mobile games.Doom Eternal, Call ofDuty, Fortnite, PUBG,Valorant, Counter-Strike,that's all on the PC side.On the mobile side we gotFortnite, Modern Combat,Shadowgun, Roblox.Now that's what I'm talking about.Now, they have like,a certain amount of like, certified games,but they also say that it shouldpretty much work with any game.We'll put that to the test.All right, let's take it out.Okay, whoo.All right, I like the feel of it.Like it, it is light,but it also, I mean, I don't, it does,definitely doesn't have heft to it,but it, but it definitely,I think maybe it's just the structurethat makes it feel good in the hand.You got your phone holder here,Which you can loosen thatand adjust it to your,to your liking.Why would you want to putit all the way around?So they can stare death in the face as youdo a 360 no-scope ontheir, on their butts.You saw, you should have seen this coming.Um, so let's put that around there,that's probably where you want it.And you can also slide this all along.Yeah, so if you want to play,if you want to play right upin the game like this you can.I feel like I'm there.If you want to do that, you can,or if you want to haveit a little farther back.Maybe this is like the situationwhere you have it thereand you're playing a PC game and you'rereally looking at the monitor but,I don't know.We're gonna find out.Looking more at the physical device here,we got a joystick,X Y Z buttons over here,trigger here,and then you have these buttons,which I believe are the movement buttons.So I think this is gonna be forwardand this is gonna be back.And then this is strafingside to side, right and left.But I guess like, if you'reholding it like this,it's kind of like,that's your regular joysticklooking around on a controller.And then this would beyour, you know what I mean?The two sticks?Alright anyways,over here we got a wholeplethora of buttons.A plethora of buttons.Abcdefgh.So I'm assuming youcan, like, re-map these.Arcade has given me instructionsfor how to set this upbecause I don't think this is actually,fully out for anyone to just buy yet,so we're gonna, we'regonna test it out here.First let's get it pairedup to my, to this phone.So power button.Ooh, pretty lights.Green, work, and blue.RGB, baby.We are, what does that mean?Is that, oh that might mean it's pairing.And we are connected.Okay, Shadowgun War Games.Here we go.I'm gonna, I'm gonna start the game.Okay, they got some Fortnite,Fortnite dances. (laughs)Very cool, very cool.This seems like a game foryoung and hip, cool people.Okay, so yeah, indeed these,these buttons are back and forth,so you gotta get used to using those.I think I have to stand up, Brandon.Brandon I need freedom.- You need freedom?- Don't hold me back.Oh no, bad guys!Oh, okay I got a kill.Who the heck is that?Oh, it's Tracer!(laughter)It's not Tracer.I got killed.I got killed somehow,but I already got a kill with it, so like,this is, this is look around,but also the joystick is,the left joystick is also look around.So I guess that's how if you,if you like get, if yourmotion gets knocked off,then you can like correct it that way.So like, if I do this,now I'm looking straightbut my gun is looking down.But maybe I just deal with that, you know.Maybe it doesn't really matter.It definitely takes some getting used to.Like I will say, because Iam still getting used to it.Also, this mobile game,and a lot of mobile gameshave it set to like,automatically fire when you mouse over,or, you know your cursorgoes over a bad guy.So it's, it's a little confusingbecause I'm trying to to play thisand get some like, precision headshotsbut, you know, it's firing for meand I'm like don't fireyet I want to, whoa!What is this game?Is this a game that people play?Like there are people whoare good at this game.Maybe they're playing witharcade motion blasters tooand they have more practice.I would definitely like to seethem put in a little bit moredevelopment towards, like,making it one-to-one,because if you're playing a game,like the whole point ofhaving precision aim isso that you can kind of like do thisand have that track toyour movements in game.But right now it's like,it's more like this isjust a big joystick,where to go left you move it leftbut that doesn't translateto exactly 45 degrees,like the turn that you did.It's more like do this for a little bitand he'll turn left for a little bit.Okay, so that's enough of thatI'm gonna try Fortnite now, the classic.It's giving me, it's givingme the on-screen controls,like the touch controls.Sorry, but I don't need them. (gun cock)Lock and load.Okay, so now I have to press A to jump.It's the first time that I'm,I have to use a button.Oh gosh, I have to jump orI'm gonna be stuck in the party bus.I don't want to be thelast one to the party.You can also do it by like,recalibrating that way,'cause it's, it'sdefinitely not one-to-one.I'm, this might be a littlebit worse than War Games.Or uh, Shadowgun War Games.What am I doing here?(laughter)I looked down so farthat the screen reversed.I'm gonna die so fast.Oh, bad guy!Oh!(laughter)Okay, and I want to adjust my view a bit.Am I going the wrong way?I am.Like it's definitely cool.Like it's definitely, this isdefinitely a cool experienceand I'm enjoying it.It's more intuitive than, you know,a noob who would pick up acontroller for the first timeand just be like \"what am i doing?\"Like you look left, you lookright, that's how you do it.But it's still, you stillhave to spend some timeto get used to it.And honestly the biggestthing to get used tois the movement mechanics.Like left and right withyour thumb like this,and forward and back with your,like middle finger and pinky?Or maybe you can just like, adjust your,your grip like that?I don't know.I mean it's, it takessome getting used to.And see if I can getone more kill and then,or, or get killed myself.(laugher)Oh, Brandon I never thought Iwould get kills in this game,for real.That's amazing!I love Fortnite!Linus!I'm getting kills in mobile Fortnite!You know what?I take back what I said aboutthis being kind of janky,because I, who am acomplete Fortnite noob,like I played some PUBG.I played a little bit of Fortnite like,benchmarking for a video before,but like I have not playedmobile Fortnite at alland I have gotten, how many kills is that?Three or four kills?That's ridiculous.Okay, well, the verdict forFortnite is good for this thing.Okay time to try this thing on PC,but before we do that,I got to tell you about our sponsor.Displate Metal Prints.They have over 800,000 unique designsand their magnetic mountingsystem decreases the riskthat you're gonna damage your walls.And LMG even has some of our own designson the platform right now.So use code \"circuit\" to get15% off through the link below,today.Okay so what we just did,connecting via bluetooth,is the way that you woulduse this just with your PCwithout streaming it to your phone.But, if you want to streamthe game to your phoneso you can look at this.You're streaming your PC game to thisand you're like moving around all the way,360 like that,then you want to use theirspecial app called Space Disk.So, okay I'll try a PCgame without Space Disk.Here we go.See now this, I did,I automatically see that this is a problembecause I can only look one direction.I mean I guess I, oh I can do thisand scope all the way around, hmm.This might be betterthan I thought it was.I'm doing this and it'slike, it's like a mouse.- How's the latency?- I, there is almost zero latencyfrom what I can tell.I mean it's a bluetooth peripheral,so obviously there'sgonna be some latency,but like, I'm not seeing a ton.Die.Oh!What difficulty is this on?It's a bit awkward because, you know,I'm not aiming like where I want to aimbut that would be solved bystreaming the game to the phoneand then I could be likelooking where I'm aiming.So I feel like I want to do that.This is kind of interesting.It's like, it's basicallylike holding a mousethat you control by like,moving around like that.Aha!I'm not gonna talk aboutall of the technical issuesthat I just dealt with inorder to get to this point,but we're here I'm streaminga PC game to my mobile device.I'm controlling the mouse withthe Arcade Motion Blaster,so suffice to say, therewere some technical issues,They have a document tellingyou how to deal with them,but here we are, I justwant to play some games.So here we're, I'm just gonna do it.So now I'm, I can spin all the way aroundand I can see how this goes.Let's look for some bad guys.Brandon, what do I do?- Are you feeling latency?Are you feeling like...- There's definitely latency.There's definitely choppiness.Yeah there's just maybe a little too,there's just maybe a bit too many...- That soundslike too many vairablesthat would allow for a bad experience.- Yeah, there's too many variables.The motion blaster is connectedto my PC via bluetooth.The PC is streaming via Wi-Fi to my phone.This thing's not connected to my phone.I wonder if that would be better,if like, your, the blasterwas connected to the phoneand then that wasserving as the controllergoing through the Wi-Ficonnection for the game stream.Suffice to say that thisparticular setup wherethis is connect to the PC,your PC is streaming toyour phone via Wi-Fi,is not the best way to use this.Oh, and we got disconnected.So that's a good place to stop. (laughter)Guys, what to say about this?I mean it's definitely cool.PewDiePie backed it.I think PewDiePie haslike a special bundlethat you can get with this.It's definitely fun,like if you're the type of person to,to get something, and youwant to fiddle around with itand like tinker, and things like that,there's definitely a lot of potential herefor really cool experiences,but if I was to tell youthat it's something you canjust pick up and immediately have thebest experience with ever,that's not true.It definitely takes some fiddling.I will say with their suggestedgames that you try on,on Android, it's prettymuch plug and play.And I think the best time thatI had with this thing in thiswhole video was fortnight,right, I got like four kills dude.Yeah, at uh, at the end of the day,this definitely takes some workto get used toand I don't know whetherthe industry will want to,you know adjust to this.When we've got pretty decentmethod of control already.\n"