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"Valve has redesigned its Steam controller. Revealing the new design at its Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle, the controller will drop its central touchscreen and reposition the physical buttons.  Instead of the buttons being mapped around the outsides of the touch pads, they will be positioned underneath, similar to the D-pad and face button formation seen on the Wii U&amp;#039;s Pro Controller. Valve said a new &amp;#039;ghost&amp;#039; mode will replace the touchscreen, which will display the current keyboard button mapping of the touch pads. The Steam Controller is set to launch alongside the first Steam Machines, with Alienware set to release its hardware in September. The Steam Dev Days conference also revealed that third-party manufacturers can produce Steam controllers, and that Valve would phase out its Greenlight service. Steam Machines: Are they a missed opportunity from Valve? Watch a demonstration of Valve&amp;#039;s Steam Controller:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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