These games are often designed for phones or tablets, so playing them on a touchscreen PC feels like a natural extension of what you'd do on your smaller devices.

Sean Hollister is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. With Windows 8 ...

The Razer Kishi V2 now supports a Virtual Controller Mode that allows you to play touchscreen games with its physical controls. The new mode comes through a software update for Razer Nexus and a ...

The controller doesn't work outside of Steam, including on Windows' touchscreen keyboard, and installing drivers and launching games for the first time can be a pain.

For example, on a Windows 11 PC with a touchscreen, you can: Swipe up with one finger from the bottom of your screen to see the Start menu. Swipe with one finger from the left edge of your screen ...

Educational games are an obvious use for Windows Touch technology and ItzaBitza has quickly made this clever drawing tool for the under 5s. Kids can use the drawing recognition system to draw ...

Lenovo (the world’s largest PC maker) and Ubisoft (the maker of Assassin’s Creed) are preloading touch-oriented games such as Air Hockey on the Table PC, an all-in-one Windows 8 computer that ...