Kirk Hamilton

And we are back for one more thing.

I'm going to go first.

My one more thing is a piece of hardware that I teased on the stream last week.

It is the Steam Controller, the new controller from Valve.

Valve sent me one of these, I should say, so I've had it for about a week, even though it just came out on Monday.

And I've had a chance to play around with it with a few different games and kind of put it through its paces, though I have not been as thorough as some of the reviews that are out there.

If you look around on YouTube, you will find no shortage of reviews of people who have really tested this thing out because it is a kind of deceptively simple piece of hardware.

It's actually quite complex.

There's a lot that you can do with it.

I really like the Steam Controller.

I think it's very, very cool.

That shouldn't come as a surprise.

Anyone listening to this show will know I love the Steam Deck, and I love the controls on the Steam Deck in particular, the way that the Steam Deck allows you to reprogram and reimagine the controls for any game.

There are two touchpads on the front, which are also on the Steam Controller, and Valve has created a software overlay Steam Input that allows for really...

complex and you know you can really get deep on designing you know multi-touch options and building macros in and using the combination keyboard and controller like it's an incredible software interface built to support this hardware so i really like it and that shouldn't come as a surprise but um i figured i'd talk about it a little bit just because i've been using it and it's new and exciting

So yeah, to explain it to people who have never seen a Steam controller or a Steam Deck or anything, it feels basically like a PlayStation controller.

It has the parallel thumbsticks, two triggers, shoulder buttons, face buttons, the usual.

And then it has two trackpads, these little square trackpads that are below the thumbsticks that you can slide your thumbs down onto.

And it has four underbuttons, which are four little buttons you press with your middle and ring fingers on each hand.

No wonder you love it.