Valve’s hardware graduates from side-quest to full-blown ambition

2026 is meant to be a key year for Valve's ambitions in the hardware space, and next week, the first piece of the puzzle falls into place. Reviews for the Steam Controller – the compan's redesigned gamepad, a decade on from the original's troubled debut – are in, and they're good. Remarkably good, in fact: a chorus of near-universal praise from outlets that you might expect to pick apart the idiosyncrasies of a $99 controller with far more relish. Read more