Steam’s Summer Sale kicked off on Thursday amidst a „test“ denial of service attack by CyberTeam. Two products that have received discounts are the Steam Controller (70% off) and Steam Link (30% off) .
Valve has kicked off the 2017 Steam Summer Sale which will run until July 5. Lots of games have received discounts but so have a couple of hardware items which Valve sells, namely the Steam Controller and Steam Link. The controller has received a 30% discount down from $49.99 to $34.99 and the Steam Link has had a whopping 70% discount down from $49.99 to just $14.99.
The Steam Controller which is compatible with thousands of Steam games, has dual trackpads, HD haptics, and support for shared configurations. It’s described in the following fashion by Steam:
Meanwhile the plug ’n‘ play Steam Link, that can stream content from a PC or Steam Machine to a TV at up to 1080p at 60fps, is described with the following words:
The Summer Sale got off to a bit of a rocky start as the new hacking group on the block began a “test” attack against Steam before its main attempt. The attack claimed by CyberTeam, prevented some users making purchases while the servers were being hammered. It doesn’ t bode well for Valve which had been warned of an impending denial of service attack by the group.
Source: Steam
