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Guitar Hero co-creator ventures into mobile gaming peripherals

Red Octane co-founder Charles Huang has launched a new company called Green Throttle Gaming, with the intention of turning your mobile into a proper big screen gaming device.

Green Throttle has two main products - an app and the Atlus controller. The Green Throttle Arena App allows users to connect mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to an HDTV, then play using the Bluetooth-powered controllers. It acts as a connection hub for your existing hardware, eliminating the need for a whole new console.

Green Throttle will be developing games in-house for the system, and has opened its SDK to other developers.

Huang has plenty of experience with peripherals to back up the company; he was one of two founders of Red Octane, which co-created Guitar Hero with Harmonix, mainly supplying the hardware side at first. The company was later later purchased and then shuttered by Activision. He's joined by ex-Palm Pre lead Matt Crowley and former Palm Pilot electrical engineer Karl Townsend.

Thanks, Joystiq.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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