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Arkade is a PC Peripheral That Transforms Every Modern Shooter Into a Light Gun Game

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Arkade is a PC Peripheral That Transforms Every Modern Shooter Into a Light Gun Game

If you miss the days of Time Crisis, Virtua Cop, or even Duck Hunt, then Arkade Gaming Gun is a PC peripheral that should be firmly in your sights. At this week’s Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2026, I managed to get a short hands-on demonstration with this motion-controlled gun controller that’s due to release sometime in 2027 and came away with a strong first impression despite taking a few moments to wrap my head around its unique control setup.

What’s great about the Arkade Gaming Gun straight off the bat is that its proprietary technology doesn’t require a webcam or Wii-style sensor bar to make it work with your display. It’s completely plug and play, you connect its charging dock up to your PC via USB-C, and it doubles as a wireless receiver for the gun itself. A device manager allows you to customise its button layout and calibrate the tracking performance, and away you go.

You basically cradle the Arkade in a two-handed grip. The D-Pad or WASD-style movement of your character is handled by a thumbstick jutting out the side of its chunky barrel – which pulses with customisable LED graphics like a billboard in a Blade Runner skyline – with a pair of buttons on the other side used for other moves like jumping, and controls at the rear for weapon-switching.

Otherwise the actual aiming is handled by physically pointing the gun itself at your target, and that’s where things became initially disorientating during my brief hands-on.


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