If you have Steam installed on your PC, you can utilize its built-in controller support to turn your gamepad into a mouse. However, note that this feature will be disabled when you launch a game ...
It feels like a distant memory at this point: Before the Xbox 360, using a gamepad on PC was actually kind of a pain in the butt. You'd have to manually map buttons, games wouldn't detect your ...
Apart from the price and game availability, there's a whole debate whether a keyboard and mouse for consoles is a good idea.