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It’s been more than 10 years since the original Steam Controller, Valve’s take on a gamepad designed specifically for PC gaming. That controller only ever found a small cult following. Its most ...

Most of the hype surrounding the announcement of Valve's recent trio of new hardware was focused on its Steam Machine mini gaming PC, as folks hoped and assumed it would be as aggressively priced as ...

It was 10 years ago when a coworker placed a Steam Controller in my hands. I had no idea what I was holding. It was a foreign object to me, tossing decades of conventional wisdom to the curb in favor ...

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A decade ago, Valve tried to reinvent the video game controller as we know it. The first iteration of the Steam Controller aimed to bring a PC gaming experience to a gamepad form factor. It was, ...

I've used many gamepads across many platforms, and to date, only two have actively repulsed me due to their build quality. The first was the Ouya gamepad. The second was Valve's original Steam ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The official Steam Machine gamepad is here, and it works great on PC and Deck. But where do you sit on its $99 ...