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Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ampersandrew to c/games

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The leak comes as the devices are prepared for mass production, so these are coming soon.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Video game company that also owns the biggest video game buying platform in the world makes a new video game controller to play video games with

Mod: Nah, it’s hardly related to video games, the rules have to be updated

[–] Dremor 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yup, in retrospect my brain kinda betrayed me here.

The update I'd like to see here is to explicitly allow gaming hardware related topic in rule 1, to avoid having an overworked mod go on a moderation spree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This isn’t a great answer…

This is the best one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe instead of updating the public rules could use a checklist system to help reduce the cognitive load of moderating: like checking if the url is a reputable source such as the verge, and check for keywords like "valve" for if it's relevant to gaming.