One of the funnier features included with Valve’s upcoming Steam Controller is its ping feature. If you can’t find your Steam Controller, you can use Steam to ping the controller, making it vibrate and produce a noise. That’s not funny, it’s useful, especially if this controller is going to be sitting in a living room near remote-eating couches. But what is funny is that when you ping the controller, it makes an old phone-ringing noise. This greatly amused me, and I made the controller ring many times. So I had to ask Valve about it. “Engineer Rich [Karstens] thought it was a good noise and fu
Why Valve's New $100 Controller Rings Like A Phone, Lacks A 3.5 Jack, And Isn’t Called The Steam Controller 2 - Kotaku… But it truly excels with the Steam Deck — connecting it to big-screen TVs, keyboards, controllers, and other accessories, along with super-fast ports for networking and storage. It’s a premium dock that suddenly costs less than most AAA games that you can play on the Steam Deck. …
Steam Steam Deck Steam Machine Valve By Zack Zwiezen Published April 24, 2026 | Comments 2 Valve is providing more data on Steam Deck performance to developers who have created and shipped games that are marked as Verified on the handheld PC. …
… As for compatibility, the hub works nicely with devices like Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and even USB-C iPads. …
… You might have noticed some of the recent updates we’ve made to the Steam Store itself have already been making it more gamepad-friendly, and we’re just going to continue doing that throughout the rest of Steam.” Valve also wants to make sure that features of Steam that have become more popular sin… …
… Valve told Kotaku it wanted the Steam Controller to contain all of the input options found on the Steam Deck. And it does. That means if you play Steam Deck games using a specific layout, it will just work on the Steam Controller. That’s the motto of the Steam Controller: It just works. …