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New Xbox controller designs come and go, but few are truly iconic. Step forward Gordon Nicolson Kiltmakers (GNK), a Scottish tailor that has teamed up with Xbox to deliver one of the most unique, rare, and frankly gorgeous official pad collaborations yet.<\/p>\n
GNK, which partnered with the console to create a bespoke tartan for clothing and accessories, has wrapped just nine Xbox controllers in the fabric, and two of them are being given away for free in a global prize draw.<\/p>\n
The company, headquartered on Edinburgh\u2019s famous Royal Mile, was approached by Xbox to create an official tartan to celebrate two decades of the console\u2019s presence in Scotland. GNK got to work to create a design that used four colors \u2014 apple 13, viv green, black, and sc white \u2014 to channel Xbox\u2019s green, black, and grey palette, while also nodding to gaming with a \u201cmicro-sett pattern inspired by pixelated graphics.\u201d <\/p>\n
Each controller was handmade to ensure the pattern stayed properly aligned.<\/p>\n
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Each controller \u2014 a standard white Xbox pad \u2014 was disassembled and hand-wrapped by GNK\u2019s kiltmakers to ensure the pattern hugged the faceplate tightly, while crucially lining up perfectly to maintain the vertical and horizontal patterns across the curved surface.<\/p>\n
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Gordon Nicolson, director of Gordon Nicolson Kiltmakers, said he couldn\u2019t quite believe Xbox\u2019s initial request, and that the challenge of applying tartan to such a small pattern \u2014 and making it fit perfectly on the controller without affecting how it worked \u2014 \u201cpushed us in ways we\u2019d never imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had gamers, collectors, and people who\u2019d never have thought about tartan before getting in touch about this collection,\u201d he added. \u201cThe whole collaboration means so much to us as a small family-run business, and we\u2019re really proud of how it\u2019s all come together.”<\/p>\n
Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, where GNK is based, is one of the most iconic streets in the world.<\/p>\n
gettyHow to win a limited-edition Xbox tartan controller<\/p>\n
To be in with a chance to win GNK\u2019s tartan Xbox pad, head over to the website<\/a> and enter your details. Two lucky winners will get a controller, while runners-up will get either an Xbox tartan scrunchie or wallet. You can improve your chances by following, liking, and subscribing on various social platforms, too \u2014 but get your name in the hat before 11:59pm GMT (6:59pm ET) on December 8.<\/p>\n If you love the design but don\u2019t win, GNK also has a few other Xbox tartan-covered bits like wallets, hats, and \u2014 of course \u2014 a bespoke, made-to-measure kilt<\/a>, yours for just $900 (but currently on sale for just short of $700). If that\u2019s out of your price range, these Xbox tartan trousers<\/a> are around half that price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Xbox controller designs come and go, but few are truly iconic. Step forward Gordon Nicolson Kiltmakers (GNK),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,18376,170385,170382,170383,2577,170384,124700,102810,170381,105,7476],"class_list":["post-297427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-controller","tag-giveaway","tag-gnk","tag-kiltmaker","tag-microsoft","tag-pad","tag-rare","tag-scottish","tag-tartan","tag-technology","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}