Valve Announces the Steam Controller

Steam Controller

Steam ControllerValve revealed details on Friday for its very own gamepad — the Steam Controller, designed to work with the company’s Steam Box console. The device features two circular, clickable trackpads with a touchscreen in the middle. “Driven by the player’s thumbs, each one has a high-resolution trackpad as its base,” explains Valve. The company says that the new controller allows for higher fidelity than traditional gamepads, which makes it a better alternative to a mouse and keyboard for controlling PC-centric genres like strategy games and first-person shooters. Valve says that the Steam Controller was designed to work with the entire Steam catalog of games. “We’ve fooled those older games into thinking they’re being played with a keyboard and mouse, but we’ve designed a gamepad that’s nothing like either one of those devices.”

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