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… One last note, P2CE doesn’t play super nicely with Steam Input at the moment, and some players report issues on Steam Deck. That said… Portal 2 is great on Steam Deck The original version of Portal 2 , released 15 years ago, works wonderfully on the Steam Deck. …
… 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. …
… 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… …
… PC and retro gaming handhelds are feeling the RAM crunch Due to the recent increase in storage component costs, prices across many Ayaneo products will be rising soon,” read the email announcement from the portable console brand via Steam Deck HQ . “At the same time, some models may be temporarily … …
… Sure, nowadays you can easily play a pitch-perfect version of Doom on your PC or Switch 2 or Steam Deck, but, what if, Linden asked himself, he didn’t fix Doom by putting it on a new, more powerful system, but went back and fixed the SNES version instead? …