Phantom Blade Zero's peripheral lineup gained a second licensed partner in September: controller maker Flydigi is running an officially licensed collaboration with the game, and it launched two collab pads at once — the Direwolf 4 Phantom Blade Zero Edition and the 八爪鱼6 Pro Phantom Blade Zero Edition (the flagship model's Chinese product name; an official English name was not part of the announcement coverage as of this writing). Both went on sale on September 16 at 7:30 p.m. local time. The Direwolf 4 gift box is a straight sale at 249 yuan, while the flagship collab edition opened as a presale at 899 yuan.
The collaboration moved fast. Flydigi announced the partnership on August 12, opened reservations for two unpriced controllers on September 12, showed the design on September 15, and put both prices and sales arrangements on the table during its product launch event on the evening of September 16. Both pads are licensed wireless controllers aimed at the game's melee combat — one at an entry price with the full accessory set, one at flagship price with the game's weapon design worked into the shell. This article collects everything confirmed so far: what each collab pad is based on, what the gift boxes contain, the hardware underneath, the current buying status, and how the pair relates to the GameSir controller that has been on sale in China since mid-September.
Two collab controllers, from announcement to shelves in one month
Flydigi's partnership with Phantom Blade Zero was made official on August 12 under the slogan "刀锋所向，即是江湖" (roughly, "where the blade points, the jianghu follows"). At that stage the company only said the collaboration would focus on control and handling; the product itself stayed unnamed. On September 12, reservations opened for two licensed pads: the 八爪鱼6 Pro Phantom Blade Zero Edition and the Direwolf 4 Phantom Blade Zero Edition. Both carry the game's official licensing, and both were scheduled to go on sale September 16 at 19:30 — with prices still unannounced during the reservation window. A reservation without a price is an unusual setup, but it fits the reveal structure here: demand locks in first, and pricing lands a few days later at a launch event.
Around the time reservations opened, some retail stores had already received physical units and posted unboxing videos. In those early hands-on images, the Direwolf 4 collab keeps the basic silhouette of the standard model while working Phantom Blade Zero's visual themes into the shell; product images of the flagship collab edition were also circulating, with the note that the final mass-produced look would follow the official release.
The full design reveal came on September 15, when Flydigi published an official video showing the collab's design details for the first time and confirming the 八爪鱼6 Pro as the flagship model of this collaboration — still without a price. Pricing and sales details landed the next evening during the launch event for the 八爪鱼6 series. From announcement to shelves, the whole collaboration took a little over a month, and it lands more than a month before Phantom Blade Zero itself releases on PS5 and PC on October 29 — the peripherals arrive first, right inside players' pre-launch preparation window.
Direwolf 4 gift box: 249 yuan with the full accessory set
The cheaper of the two collabs is the Direwolf 4 Phantom Blade Zero Edition, sold as a limited gift box at 249 yuan. Inside the box are the controller itself plus two exclusive accessories: a custom charging dock and custom thumbstick caps. Visually, the pad uses a crimson-and-black color scheme, a lion dance motif at the center of the face, and custom move-symbol keycaps on the ABXY buttons. The launch-day reports add that the thumbstick caps use game-themed design elements and that the charging dock is styled around the collab's look, so the whole set reads as one piece rather than a pad with generic add-ons.
The collab is built on the Direwolf 4, a model Flydigi first released in September 2025 at a starting presale price of 189 yuan. Its hardware list includes an adjustable-tension lever-style stick, force-switchable triggers, a rotating-axis d-pad, low-noise silicone ABXY buttons, and lockable macro back buttons. For connectivity it supports wired, Bluetooth, and 2.4GHz dongle modes; inside there is an 800mAh battery, a six-axis gyroscope, a 1kHz polling rate, and a fine-tuned vibration algorithm. Based on the published information, the collab's changes concentrate on looks and bundled accessories — the custom dock and stick caps in the box are its most direct difference from the standard model.
On pricing, 249 yuan matches Flydigi's previous IP gift box: the Arknights: Endfield collab set for the same controller was priced at 249 yuan, while the base Direwolf 4 started at 189 yuan in presale. The 60-yuan gap roughly corresponds to the custom dock and stick caps added to the box. Within the two Phantom Blade Zero controller collabs, this is clearly the budget option.
One naming note for readers searching internationally: IT Home's September 17 report romanizes 冰原狼4 as "Direwolf 4," and that is the name to use when looking for this collab on global storefronts and communities. The 899 yuan edition, by contrast, is easiest to find through Flydigi's own storefront listings and the collab tags retailers attach to it.
The flagship collab edition: 899 yuan, a weathered weapon with four-motor haptics
The 八爪鱼6 Pro is Flydigi's current flagship controller line, and the collab edition on top of it costs 899 yuan. The reveal happened during Flydigi's 八爪鱼6 series stream on the evening of September 16, where the new standard models and the collab prices were shown together, and the collab edition opened for presale at the same time. According to Zhongguancun Online's report, Flydigi says the collab edition will reach buyers before the game itself launches. The marketing slogan "四驱触觉，劲随刃动" (roughly, "four-motor haptics, force following the blade") and the design theme "执刃破局，快意交锋" (roughly, "grip the blade, break the stalemate, trade blows freely") are both pitched at the game's high-speed combat, and the company frames the pad as pairing Phantom Blade Zero's dark wuxia style with a more immersive feel in hand.
"Four-motor haptics" refers to the X-Haptics feedback system the collab edition carries: four wide-frequency voice coil motors (VCM), placed at the left and right triggers and the left and right grips, each driven independently. Per Flydigi's explanation, actions like slashing, parrying, and taking a hit differ in rhythm and force, and the voice coil motors can separate them through different waveforms and different positions — a contrast with the single rumble of a traditional rotor motor that suits action games better. This feedback hardware matches the standard 八爪鱼6 Pro, so the collab edition keeps the flagship line's published configuration.
The exterior is where the collab actually departs from the standard model — and from the printed-artwork approach of most licensed pads. The shell gets a weathered finish with scratch and wear marks; the design draws on 黑魔殇, the main weapon of the game's protagonist Soul (transliterated here; no official English name has been confirmed), and the stated intent is that the controller should read as a used weapon rather than a new product. The official design video from September 15 filled in more details: a black-and-red two-tone body with red dominating the left side and black the right, scratch-style marks on the d-pad and ABXY button area, and the "影之刃零" title printed at the top center of the face. Packaging takes the form of a collector's gift box, with an elite controller pouch and a custom dock among the bundled accessories.
This is not the 八爪鱼6 Pro line's first game tie-in: miHoYo's Zenless Zone Zero previously partnered with the line on a collab gift box containing a charging dock, a carry pouch, and swappable stick caps. For Flydigi, the Phantom Blade Zero collaboration is its second collab with a domestic action game IP after Black Myth: Wukong.
Where things stand: prices, presales, and unknowns
Both controllers' sales started at 19:30 on September 16, but the wording differs across reports. The 249 yuan Direwolf 4 gift box opened for sale that evening — IT Home's September 17 report describes it as released, while a Tencent News piece the same day calls it a presale opening; with the two descriptions coexisting, the official storefront status is the deciding signal. The 899 yuan flagship collab edition is a presale, with Flydigi saying it will arrive before the game's October 29 launch, and the shipping schedule beyond that is in the company's hands.
That delivery promise is the practical anchor for buyers: the flagship edition is advertised to arrive before October 29, so the delivery window — not a posted shipping date — is the detail worth watching until Flydigi publishes one. The sequence so far runs reservation on September 12 (unpriced), design reveal on September 15, prices at the launch event on September 16; the one date still missing from that chain is when the 899 yuan presale actually ships. As of September 20, overseas release plans, storefront stock, and shipping batches for both pads all lack further official details. The GameSir collab is the reference point for how this tends to go: its Chinese edition launched first, and the global edition's name, date, and price arrived only in a separate reveal.
How this sits next to the GameSir edition
Phantom Blade Zero now has two officially licensed controller collabs, and both GameSir and Flydigi announced their partnerships on the same day, August 12. GameSir's take is a special-edition route (see the site's coverage of its teaser stage); after the official reveal, the product's Chinese edition is named 天王星8K《影之刃零》联名款 and the global edition GameSir G7 Pro 8K PC Phantom Blade Zero Edition, on sale in China since mid-September at 549 yuan with PC, Steam, and Switch compatibility. Flydigi instead split the price range into two tiers — a 249 yuan gift box and an 899 yuan flagship presale, revealed together with both prices on launch day.
The three collab products occupy three price tiers — 249, 549, and 899 yuan — with the table below and each product page covering the specifics. Beyond controllers, Phantom Blade Zero's licensed peripherals include Viture's Phantom Beast XR glasses, which opened preorders at USD 599 and are scheduled to ship with the game on October 29 (also covered earlier). Each collab pad's device compatibility and firmware support should be checked against its own product page, since those details live with each vendor rather than with the game.
| Direwolf 4 collab gift box | Flagship collab edition | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 249 yuan | 899 yuan |
| Status | on sale since September 16 (reports differ on presale vs. release wording) | presale, to arrive before the October 29 launch |
| Box contents | controller, custom charging dock, custom thumbstick caps | controller, elite pouch, custom dock, in a collector's gift box |
| Base model | Direwolf 4 (September 2025, presale from 189 yuan) | 八爪鱼6 Pro flagship line |
| Signature design | lion dance motif, move-symbol keycaps, crimson-and-black shell | weathered finish, scratch marks, four VCM haptics |
| Overseas release | not announced | not announced |