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Jacob Ridley

How grip sensing was added to the new Steam Controller is a 'typical Valve story' involving a passionate employee moving desks

Valve's new and improved Steam Controller during a visit to Valve's HQ in Bellevue, Washington.

Valve has packed the new Steam Controller with multiple ways to control a PC game from the comfort of your sofa. It has standard thumbsticks (phew), a pair of trackpads, and gyro controls. Three for the price of… well, we don't know the price of the Steam Controller yet. Though I hadn't considered gyro controls for my gaming PC prior to actually using the Steam Controller.

"So, there's a whole community of gamers who really are into gyro aiming," Steve Cardinali, a Valve engineer working across the Steam Controller and Steam Frame Controllers, says.

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