I've recently been playing with the Gamepad API and implementing it in Rawkets (gamepad stuff isn't online yet, sorry!). Up until a few days ago this was a Firefox-only feature but I'm glad to say that builds of Chrome are now out with gamepad support. Here is a quick video of Rawkets with the Gamepad API working in Firefox and Chrome.
I'm looking forward to this functionality maturing and getting supported by the other browsers. For now you can play with this today in experimental Nightly builds of Firefox or download the Chrome Dev build for Windows support, or Chrome Canary for Mac support (Linux coming soon).
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Ian Brennan
Really awesome stuff Rob.
Ross Hadden
I can’t wait to see where the gamepad + webGL combination goes. Though I much prefer WASD -_-. Still, it will open an entirely new arena for game development companies—and even console giants like Microsoft and Sony as well.