

For those who are interested in attempting to stream games from their PC now, you can give Moonlight a try.

Those who have Samsung Smart TVs or an NVIDIA Shield will already be able to stream their games from their PC running Steam. It's unknown just how well it works yet, but thanks to the nature of Android it also means that you should, in theory, be able to also stream the games to your Android TV.

This opens the door to a huge amount of games you can play on your phone, and while it may be a niche for some, others will find that it will become one of the best ways to play games on Android. With a Steam Controller, however, there's nothing stopping you playing the likes of Portal 2, Grand Theft Auto, Civilisation V, and more.

You won't exactly be playing high-octane games on your phone either, with slower pace games such as Game Dev Tycoon or Scribblenauts being better suited to a touchscreen. The BLE Firmware Update for the SC is strictly to make pairing easier for use with the Steam Link App.Of course, a major drawback is that you won't be able to play over your LTE connection, but that's fine - not only will bandwidth be an issue for many, but latency as well will be a problem. And we can't currently run a native version of Steam on mobile devices. Unless Valve changes the firmware config - or allows users to alter it - these are the only bindings that we will ever have unless Steam is running on the device. Touchpad is the mouse cursor, Right Trigger (Full Pull) is like tapping the screen where the cursor is, and Left Trigger (Full Pull) is like pressing the Android Back Button. Remember that the Steam Controller only has one native config: Lizard Mode - which consists of Arrow Keys (joystick), Escape (B or Start), Enter (A), Tab (Back/Select), and Mouse Left/Right (Right Trigger/Left Trigger Full Pull).Īndroid Lizard Mode is a bit different from Desktop Lizard Mode. This usually amounts to "how can I get the SC working with X emulator." There currently isn't any way to get the SC working as an XInput device for native Android applications. Now that the Steam Controller has Bluetooth support and can connect to Android devices, many people are assuming that they can use it as a standard input device on their mobile devices. I've seen this pop up a lot so hopefully this can get stickied so the questions stop appearing.
