Onimusha 3 Controller Review We check out Nuby's newest game-themed pad. Nuby Tech has been focusing on videogame character licenses for a while now. This has sort of become the company's trademark.

Dubbed "The Onimusha 3 Soul Controller", this sleek sword-shaped device is easily one of the sharpest-looking peripherals we've ever seen.

Onimusha 3 unsheathes katana controller Capcom licenses a Samurai-sword-style device for use with its with hack-and-slash actioner. By Tor Thorsen on January 16, 2004 at 6:07PM PST 3 Comments ...

Remember the Onimusha 3 "Soul Controller"? Course you do - there aren't many other wireless katana peripherals doing the rounds (more's the pity, really).

But if you hook up a nice gamepad to your PC (like Microsoft's Xbox 360 controller), you'll be able to play Onimusha 3 using the solid, responsive control scheme that was originally designed for it.

2004's "Onimusha 3: Demon Siege" was a popular PlayStation 2 game from Capcom, a hack-and-slash action title from a company that had a long history in that genre.

Onimusha 3 is due out over here before the end of 2004, and there's no word on whether we'll get the Soul Controller at this stage, but the Japanese model should work fine as long as it doesn't do ...