{"id":128440,"date":"2015-06-05T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=128440"},"modified":"2015-06-05T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:45:12","slug":"valve-unveils-the-steam-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/128440-valve-unveils-the-steam-controller.html","title":{"rendered":"Valve unveils the Steam Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has unveiled its Steam Controller, which it hopes will get PC gamers playing their favourite titles from the comfort of the couch.<\/p>\n<p>The controller features dual trackpads for your thumbs, haptic feedback, dual-stage triggers, back-grip buttons (so you don&#8217;t have to take your thumbs off the device while playing), and customisable control schemes for different games.<\/p>\n<p>Valve said the controller provides the\u00a0&#8220;high-fidelity input required for precise PC gaming in the living room&#8221;, and that even Dota 2 can be played using the device.<\/p>\n<p>Limited quantities of the controller will be shipped from 16 October, in advance of the official launch on 10 November.<\/p>\n<p>The Steam Controller is shown off in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fs2Yh1PFwM?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Steam<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/128162-steam-now-gives-refunds-on-games.html\">Steam now gives refunds on games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/127296-steam-online-video-game-store-getting-rand-support.html\">Steam online video game store getting rand support?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/123392-alienware-alpha-steam-machine-gets-sa-pricing.html\">Alienware Alpha \u201cSteam Machine\u201d gets SA pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has revealed its Steam Controller, which aims to let PC gamers play comfortably from the couch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":128442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36,30812,22957,18208],"class_list":["post-128440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-active","tag-pc-gaming","tag-steam-controller","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128444,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128440\/revisions\/128444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}