Grab a limited edition Kith x Backbone controller for Kithmas 2025

Today, Backbone and Kith have teamed up to launch the Kith for Backbone Pro Mobile and Wireless Gaming Device. You can check it out here.

With this limited edition collab, Kith brought its hallmark ability to elevate the everyday, and Backbone brought its mission to make gaming feel essential, intuitive, and part of the culture we already live in. The frost-clear chassis is designed as a nod to transparency in a world of closed systems, while the hardware–software integration makes it easy to play virtually any game, on any platform, anywhere.

For Kithmas, the two brands are offering something that appeals well beyond traditional gaming: a piece of gear that lives next to your headphones and hoodie, not tucked behind a TV. It’s built for anyone who loves games, even if they’ve never felt like a “gamer.”

And here's a message from the founder of Backbone:

When we started Backbone, the idea was dead simple: turn everyone’s phone into a console and bring gaming to everyone. Since then, players have turned mobile into the biggest gaming platform on earth, and the smartphone has quietly become the next Xbox. 

But the identity of gaming culture hasn’t caught up. For too long, the default image has been the guy in a dark room, RGB lights blazing, totally separate from the rest of culture. We’ve never believed that story. We’ve always believed gaming is for everyone, and that it should sit next to the things people already love: fashion, music, sport, film. 

That’s why this Kith collab matters so much to me. Kith has spent the last decade doing what we aspire to do in gaming: taking something people already love and elevating it with taste. They blur the line between streetwear, luxury, nostalgia, and sport in a way that feels effortless and earned. Backbone’s whole thesis is similar–our aim is to build hardware, software, and services as one unified system, so playing games feels less like a complicated enterprise and more like an essential.

For Kithmas 2025, we’re dropping a limited edition Backbone Pro with a frost-clear chassis that lets you peer into the circuits that power your gaming–a metaphor for openness in a world of walled gardens, and a way to highlight the craft while demystifying the tech. You can snap your phone in for handheld play, or switch to wireless and run games on basically any screen–TV, laptop, tablet, PC. Paired with the Backbone app, it pulls your games together in one place and lets you play virtually any game, any platform, anywhere. It lives in your bag next to your headphones and your hoodie, not hidden behind a TV. This run is extremely limited and will be available exclusively on Kith.com as part of the Kithmas collection. 

We’re building Backbone for the kid grinding ranked at 2am, the busy parent sneaking a match between meetings, the friend group spread across three cities who still squad up every week. 

We’re here for anyone who’s ever fallen in love with a game but never felt like they could identify as a “gamer.”

Since inception, Backbone has been about bringing the excitement and connection of gaming to everyone, and doing it with the same level of craft as anything else. Gaming left the basement a long time ago. With Kith, we’re just dressing it accordingly.

Maneet

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