Valve Announcement Three is for Steam Controller

<p>The third and final announcement from Valve this week is <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;livingroom&sol;SteamController&sol;">for a new &&num;8216&semi;Steam Controller&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;a>&period; A controller for SteamOS and Steam Machines that Valve says they spent a year developing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The controller will work with all Steam titles &lpar;old&comma; current and future&rpar; and claims to offer a &&num;8216&semi;vastly superior control scheme&period;&&num;8217&semi; It contains two circular&comma; clickable trackpads&comma; a touch screen and a new form of &&num;8216&semi;rumble&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The Steam Controller is built around a new generation of super-precise haptic feedback&comma; employing dual linear resonant actuators&comma;&&num;8221&semi; reads the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;livingroom&sol;SteamController&sol;">page for the controller<&sol;a>&period; &&num;8220&semi;These small&comma; strong&comma; weighted electro-magnets are attached to each of the dual trackpads&period; They are capable of delivering a wide range of force and vibration&comma; allowing precise control over frequency&comma; amplitude&comma; and direction of movement&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;valve-announcement-three-steam-controller&sol;controller&lowbar;bindings&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-53687"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-53687" alt&equals;"controller&lowbar;bindings" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;09&sol;05154337&sol;controller&lowbar;bindings&period;jpg" width&equals;"625" height&equals;"342" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Steam Controller has also been designed to be hackable&comma; with Valve planning to give it&&num;8217&semi;s community the tools needed to make the controller better as time progresses&period; In the case of different games and controller inputs&comma; the community will also be able to create and share new control schemes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;In order to support the full catalog of existing Steam games &lpar;none of which were built with the Steam Controller in mind&rpar;&comma; we have built in a legacy mode that allows the controller to present itself as a keyboard and mouse&period; The Steam Community can use the configuration tool to create and share bindings for their favorite games&period; Players can choose from a list of the most popular configurations&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It should be noted that this new controller will be different from the one provided with one of the 300&period; The beta controllers will lack a touch screen and will not be wireless&period; It will&comma; however&comma; work with any version of Steam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;