Four years after Valve released its oddball Steam Controller, it's not making any more. The controller is on sale today for $5 -- that's 90 percent off its list price of $49.99 -- and a note in the Steam Store warns that there's a limited quantity re...
Amazon Daily Deals are a great chance for any tech enthusiast to buy discounted gadgets, electronics and more. Today, we’re taking a look at an All-in-One desktop PC that saves space for productivity addicts, a pair of earphones that make commuting easier and a gamepad that will make your weekends better.
1More Quad-Driver Earphones Make Commuting Enjoyable Again
No matter if you enjoy listening to music, podcasts or audiobooks, having a pair of high-quality earphones is a must today for the commuting community. Chinese audio company 1More, best known in some parts of the world for its partnership with Xiaomi on the Piston series of earphones, has recently launched an impressive product in the form of the Quad-Driver In-Ear headphones.
With three balanced armatures and a titanium dynamic driver, these 1More earphones are able to deliver crystal-clear sound regardless of the genre you enjoy listening.
At $169.99, which is how much these costs today on Amazon Daily Deals, the 1More Quad Driver In-Ear Headphones might not be the first choice of budget-oriented music listeners. However, given the top quality of the components and the attention to detail that the manufacturer has put into these, the 1More Quad-Driver In-Ear headphones will certainly delight audiophiles.
HP ENVY 34-a150 All-in-One Brings Design and Productivity Together
If you’re tired of routing cables between your desktop PC, monitor, and speakers, then an All-in-One desktop might be the best solution for you. However, if your criteria also include a 21:9 aspect ratio and a curved display, it might seem that you don’t have that many options to choose from. HP anticipated this need and created the 34-a150 All-in-One desktop PC which meets the above requirements and more.
HP Envy 34-a150 was launched back in March 2016, which might explain the huge discount available today only on Amazon. That being said, the technical specifications still make it a strong contender for anyone wanting to stay productive while saving space, not to mention that this device still holds the title of the world’s widest curved All-in-One.
With a resolution of 3440×1440, this AIO is great for work, but can also provide an immersive experience while gaming. The 34″ curved display is definitely great for both, and the horsepower is enough for running casual games. After all, the HP 34-a150 is powered by an Intel Skylake i7-6700T quad-core CPU that’s paired with 12GB of DDR4-2133Mhz memory and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A graphics with 2GB GDDR5 dedicated memory. As for storage, it includes a 1TB hard drive and a 128GB M.2 SSD where the system files are stored.
Ultrawide screens have gained a lot of ground in the past few years, and the r/UltraWideMasterRace sub-Reddit is definitive proof of that. If you’re looking to get into this trend yourself, Amazon sells the HP Envy 34-a150 today only for $1,499, down $500 from the regular price.
Have a Blast While Gaming with the Steam Controller
Valve’s Steam controller currently has nearly 2,400 reviews on Amazon, so there’s no question that this product is popular with gamers out there. This gadget is not exactly new, and went through a lot of revisions, but its popularity with gamers is proof that it’s a well-made product.
Amazon currently sells the Steam Controller with a considerable discount, meaning that you’ll only have to pay $34.99 instead of $49.99. Keep in mind that this is part of Amazon Daily Deals, so don’t waste any time and go buy it! Your gaming experiences will change dramatically with the little gadget, but only for the better.
If you've been wondering how many people bought into Valve's bid to redefine the PC gamepad, you've got an answer: about half a million. That's the number Valve gave today in the Steam Controller's June Update post. That's a lot of controllers, but n...
Even though it hasn’t been announced officially, leaked Beta code suggests that Valve’s Steam Controller is going to get yet another redesign, and the product isn’t even commercially available.
If you want to try out Steam’s Big Picture UI and you think that the Steam Controller is the best way to do it, welcome to the waiting game. Until Valve decides which design is more appropriate for gaming, you’re good to go with any wired or wireless gamepad out there. That’s valid not only if you’re running Steam on Windows, Linux or Mac, but also if you’re one of the brave ones who wants to get a taste of Steam OS.
The images suggesting a new iteration of the Steam Controller were found among the files from this week’s Steam client Beta update. The design itself is a mere update to the versions that were pictured earlier this year. In other words, 1 x analogue stick, 4 x main buttons, and 2 x touch pads don’t really represent a revolutionary type of input.
In an attempt to make PC games more console-like, Valve has first created an UI and then an entire OS around this idea. It has been a while since the Steam OS was first showcased (more than a year, as matter of fact), and gamers are still rocking keyboards and mice. Most of them wouldn’t even conceive playing a game with a controller (PC master race, anyone?), and that must be the reason while no one is crying out of restlessness to get their mittens on the Steam Controller.
In other news, Valve is preparing to lock games to the region they were purchased in. In a move that’s reminding people of region-locked DVDs, Valve forces people to buy games where they live (and if they’re in Europe, they definitely have a good reason to envy gamers from other regions). The way I see it, this looks like some sort of discrimination. Games should be offered at the same price across the globe, and that way publishers wouldn’t have to complain. Impose such restrictions and you’ll find out that more and more gamers turn to piracy to source their games. If you asked me, I’d tell you that Valve is not heading in the right direction…
Even though the Game Developers Conference only starts next week in San Francisco, Valve has decided to present the redesigned steam controller before the event.
Valve must have figured out that the world is not quite ready for touch screens on game controllers, even though PS4′s success might suggest that. In fact, it ditched that feature right after exposing the concept, as the first versions included some square buttons instead of the tactile displays. The new version (or rather versions, since Valve means to exhibit not less than 10 hand-built iterations of the redesigned controller at GDC 2014) features normal buttons and a D-Pad. This takes away a bit from the originality of the initial design, but attests the fact that Valve is receptive to its customers’ feedback.
The video game developer and distributor promises to not go unnoticed at this year’s Game Developers Conference: “For those of you able to attend GDC next week, please drop by our booth, as there will be some demo stations set up with the latest prototypes for play testing and feedback gathering. For those of you not able to attend GDC, for now we wanted to at least share a photo of the latest design changes.”
Steam Controller’s new design makes the device similar to the one found on Xbox consoles. Sure, the version including a touch screen seemed a bit ahead of its time and would have placed Valve at the top of the chart in terms of innovation, but most gamers still prefer hardware buttons. Mind you, the two touch surfaces from the sides are still there, so Valve didn’t give up entirely on its initial design.
In the middle of the controller there is a logo-emblazoned glowing home button that is flanked by a Start and a Select button. A bit lower are the D-pad on the left and the A, B, X, Y buttons on the right. While the current iteration looks more like what we call a controller, it might take a while until Valve settles for a design.
It’s a known fact that Valve will enable users to upgrade their Steam Machines once these become available. While this is a great idea that would help the company distinguish itself from other console makers, some people believe that creating a standardized hardware configuration for most if not all of the Steam Machines could help game developers figure out what gaming technologies to focus on.
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Four years after Valve released its oddball Steam Controller, it's not making any more. The controller is on sale today for $5 -- that's 90 percent off its list price of $49.99 -- and a note in the Steam Store warns that there's a limited quantity re...
If you've been wondering how many people bought into Valve's bid to redefine the PC gamepad, you've got an answer: about half a million. That's the number Valve gave today in the Steam Controller's June Update post. That's a lot of controllers, but n...
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