That's the spirit!

Nice. Sorry for being such a tease.

I'm confused. Does flashburn work for Valve or Apple?

I think he's a game programmer, not sure for who though. We have companies that program Madden and Hannah Montana around these parts so, I'm going with Hannah Montana.

I know, but don't want to say unless flashburn wants to.

Also, we should just stop talking about Macs, since I'm pretty sure Mac and Gaming shouldn't even be mentioned together.

I'd rather not say. I may be Hannah Montana though.

The one on the right is better looking.

But can your tongue unlock an iPhone 5S?

Depends on how good you are at using it...

The Steam Controller.



What. The. Shit.

O+O = SteamController

http://store.steampowered.com/living...eamController/

Very interesting.

Did you read the article or just look at the picture?

Well... that's pretty ambitious.

Not sure why they bothered though, no way I'm going to be playing a game like Civ with a controller, no matter how it's designed. Not sure how a controller like that would be good for typical console style games either.

It is cool to see someone take a chance when it comes to designing a controller.

Seems like something you need to try to get a feel for, but I think it looks terrible and seems like it would be more confusing for the average gamer.

that is bizarre as shit, but if it is what bridges the gap between playing PC games from a computer chair to playing from the couch, it might work.

That sure is different. Definitely something I'd want to try out and see how it feels.

This is what scares me:



That looks confusing, especially considering I played Portal 2 on a computer. The only keys I was using on my keyboard were A, W, S, D whereas on the mouse all I had to use were left and right buttons alongside the scroll wheel.

Maybe when using it the controller feels natural, but we'll see.

Right now, there's slightly more than 142K people in the beta. I think if anyone was going to sign up for the beta, they already did it by now. There might be a last minute push towards the end of October, but as it stands, we all have a .2% chance of winning a beta Steam Machine.

So it's hackable and has a screen in the center? That can't be a cheap controller. Still if it makes Starcraft playable without a kb+m I'm game.

To me it seems like something interesting and useful for existing PC gamers that customize their controls and try different layouts, but not so much for the average console gamer that's used to a certain layout. If that's the solution to get in the living room, i'm not sure how well casual gamers would respond.

As long as there are good default controls I don't see it being a problem. I think this format holds tremendous promise, though I do agree the ABXY buttons may prove tedious.

that does look pretty complex, but i'd assume it's far more intuitive than that.

Analog pads instead of sticks? could be interesting...

What's scary? WASD is mapped to the left pad, mouse movement to the right, and the triggers are the mouse buttons. The bumpers are the zoom in/out of the mouse wheel. Seems like the same mapping you'd expect and what all of we console (or controller) players used in Portal 2.

I hate trackpads, so this controller having two of them (instead of sticks, which would have made a shit-ton more sense, IMO) makes me hate it.