Abstract: A handheld controller for interacting with video game software and for use with video game or computer systems comprising a plurality of standard control elements, which produce data of a static nature, further comprising analog joysticks, a directional pad, pressure sensitive buttons, and digital control buttons, having an ergonomic arrangement to be actuated by the fingers and thumbs of the user and integrated into a housing having an ergonomic form designed to held by the hand or hands of the user and further integrating a “mouse-type” control element, which produces data of a dynamic nature.