Yup. You read the title right. You can use an Xbox 360 controller with your Android phone (take that iOS)! With a simple little USB OTG cable that you can buy for under $10 on Amazon, you can connect your Xbox 360 controller to your Android (4.0 and up) phone or tablet and start playing some of the best mobile games without even having to set anything up. How does it work? I’ll show you:

First, you get yourself an OTG cable (available on Amazon). Then, you connect your Xbox controller (with the USB dongle part attached) to it. Finally, you plug it in to your phone and let Android do its thing. On some phones, like the Samsung Galaxy S3 which I use in the video above, you’ll get some kind of notification. On other phones, you won’t. But as long as your phone has Android Ice Cream Sandwich and above, and your phone’s microUSB supports OTG cables, you should be good to go.

Note that not all games work out of the gate. For example, almost all of the Gameloft games I’ve played thus far don’t support external gamepads (like the Xbox 360 controller). There is a way around it if you have root access, but we won’t get into that here. What games do work? I can’t really tell you as there are way too many games out there, but the ones I’ve personally tested to work myself are GTA 3, Max Payne, Shine Runner, Dead Trigger, and much, much more.