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Valve’s Steam Controller Sold Out in 30 Minutes. Buy These Instead.

Miss out on the Valve Steam Controller? Buy one of these gamepads instead if you can’t wait.

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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You know Valve. If you grew up in the late 1990s, then their seminal title Half-Life defines the modern first-person shooter in a way that Doom pushed the ball forward only a few years earlier. But if you weren’t already gaming by the time Y2K rolled around, Valve is tied up intrinsically with its Steam platform, which revolutionized digital game distribution.

Now everything is Steam-branded. Hell, now there’s even a Valve Steam Controller, which was so eagerly anticipated by PC gamers that when it debuted for sale on May 4, 2026, it sold out in just 30........

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