One of the funnier features included with Valve’s upcoming Steam Controller is its ping feature. If you can’t find your Steam Controller, you can use Steam to ping the controller, making it vibrate and produce a noise. That’s not funny, it’s useful, especially if this controller is going to be sitting in a living room near remote-eating couches. But what is funny is that when you ping the controller, it makes an old phone-ringing noise. This greatly amused me, and I made the controller ring many times. So I had to ask Valve about it. “Engineer Rich [Karstens] thought it was a good noise and fu
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