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"Valve has unveiled the Steam Controller as its third and final big announcement of the week. The gamepad is designed to work with the company&amp;#039;s Steam Machines, which were revealed on Wednesday (September 25).  Steam Controller&amp;#039;s most distinctive feature is two large, circular trackpads instead of the usual thumbsticks on a console. The device also sports a high-resolution touchscreen which is clickable and enables both control and navigation. &amp;quot;Players can swipe through pages of actions in games where that&amp;#039;s appropriate,&amp;quot; the company writes on its announcement page.  &amp;quot;When programmed by game developers using our API, the touchscreen can work as a scrolling menu, a radial dial, provide secondary info like a map or use other custom input modes we haven&amp;#039;t thought of yet.&amp;quot; The controller comes with a total of 16 buttons, including two on the back, four on the corners of the touchscreen and three below. Steam Controller comes at the end of a week-long announcement run by Valve, which started with the reveal of its own operating system SteamOS on Monday (September 23). Watch G&amp;amp;T - Digital Spy&amp;#039;s weekly round-up of gaming and technology news with Hunter Skipworth, including our verdict on the new iPhones and FIFA 14 - below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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