{"id":923,"date":"2013-10-01T00:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ectnews.com.feedsportal.com\/c\/34520\/f\/632001\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/l\/0L0Slinuxinsider0N0Crsstory0C790A720Bhtml\/story01.htm"},"modified":"2013-10-01T00:11:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:11:47","slug":"valve-releases-steam-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/valve-releases-steam-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Releases Steam Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxinsider.com\/rsstory\/79072.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxinsider.com\/images\/rw612203\/valve-steam\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"7\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Valve Software on Friday announced the Steam Controller, the third part of its trio of initiatives designed to bring Linux-based gaming to the living room. Valve dubbed the controller &#8220;a different kind of gamepad.&#8221; It features dual circulator trackpads driven by the player&#8217;s thumbs; each has a high-resolution haptic pad at its base. These pads are clickable, allowing the entire surface to act as a button. They are meant to offer higher fidelity than traditional handheld controllers. <img width='1' height='1' src='http:\/\/ectnews.com.feedsportal.com\/c\/34520\/f\/632001\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/mf.gif' border='0'\/><br clear='all'\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/1\/rc.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/1\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/2\/rc.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/2\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/3\/rc.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/3\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/a2.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/a2.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve Software has announced the Steam Controller, the third part of its trio of initiatives designed to bring Linux-based gaming to the living room. Valve dubbed the controller &#8220;a different kind of gamepad.&#8221; It features dual circulator trackpads driven by the player&#8217;s thumbs. Each has a high-resolution haptic pad at its base, which is clickable, allowing the entire surface to act as a button.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ectnews.com.feedsportal.com\/c\/34520\/f\/632001\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/mf.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/1\/rc.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/1\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/2\/rc.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/2\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/3\/rc.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/sc\/23\/rc\/3\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/a2.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/a2.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/176967231250\/u\/197\/f\/632001\/c\/34520\/s\/31e5d4b6\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3749z-eT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalknow-how.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}