Steam Hardware
Why You Need Valve's Endgame Controller
One Controller to Rule Them All
Steam Hardware
Gaming
Ensuring Value with the Steam Machine (and the one thing everyone's missing)
In the giant frenzy over Valve's black box, we're overlooking one key ingredient.
Retrospectives
How far we've come
All this talk of new Steam Hardware has me very excited for the future of PC gaming. Not only because this first-party kit will act as a baseline for new games to target for years to come... but also because these devices ship as Linux-first machines. And I anticipate the
SteamOS
Steam Machines – Bring on the Clones
How does the new Steam Machine change things when people have already been making their own for ages?
Steam Hardware
Everything we know about the Steam Machine & Steam Controller
Since these devices go hand-in-hand, I'm gonna cover both of them here
SteamOS
The biggest PC gaming news of ALL TIME
Valve's six minute announcement video just changed PC gaming with the premier of three new PC gaming devices: the New Steam Controller, New Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.
Steam Hardware
Display-off downloads land in Steam Deck Beta channel
Coming out of nowhere, Valve has made Steam Deck an even more complete package with the addition of this long-awaited feature...
Developer Interview
Reclaim the Physical Era of Gaming: Interview with Kazeta creator Alkazar
Kazeta, the exciting new Linux-based gaming OS, removes the software abstractions and restores the physicality of the cartridge era of gaming.
Steam Hardware
12 Hidden Features of the Steam Deck
1 — Haptic Feedback Settings You can change the intensity of the haptic feedback. What’s haptic feedback? You might know it by its other name: rumble. But where other controllers have a rumble motor like this, the Steam Deck uses linear actuators closer to what the DualSense or Switch Pro
Emulation
The definitive guide to 3DS emulation on the Steam Deck (2025 update)
💡This article was originally published December 30th, 2024. It has been updated on June 3rd, 2025 since my original recommendation Lime3DS was merged with another emulator to form Azahar. The 3DS, one of my favorite handheld gaming systems. From the standard fare of Mario and Zelda titles to third party
Reviews
Here are the Best Controllers for Steam Deck (and PC) in 2025
If you've followed me for any length of time, you'll know that I consider myself a bit of a controller nerd. I even commissioned a custom desk with special cubbies designed specifically to display and charge my wide array of gamepads and peripherals. Every controller on
Steam Hardware
Steam Deck News for the week of Thursday May 22nd
This post is exclusively for paid subscribers! Includes video preview!