Oh, that pesky vibrating controller. Still causing trouble after all this time. Today a U.S. court ordered Sony to stop selling its Playstation console and pat $90 million dollars in damages to Immersion, a company that develops haptic technologies. Immersion has brought a suit against Sony claiming patent violation.

Read the Reuters news feed.

Read the Japan Times article.

This refers not just to the trance vibrator, but to the dual-shock technology used in both PSOne and PS2 controllers. Sony is appealing the ruling.