As the Raspberry Pi supports both USB (four ports!) and Bluetooth, you can use just about any controller on it, including mouse and keyboard if needed, or the official Steam Controller. While obviously not the twitchiest of games, and thus free from any network-induced latency (reduced by going through Ethernet), it seems to provide results equivalent to Valve's hardware. Only five minutes of setup, and they were happily simulating cultists in Cultist Simulator. The official Raspberry Pi blog took a look at the Steam Link software in beta, and were very pleased with it. For those late to the party, Steam Link is a local streaming solution, letting you tunnel through your LAN or Wi-Fi to play games from your desktop via your TV in another room. Formerly released on Android (although not iOS due to Apple being grumpy gits), this new version is version 3B or 3B+ of everyone's tiny PCB powerhouse system, favoured by tech-tinkerers worldwide. On the whole, they seem relatively simple and the feedback so far for it has been very popular.The Link is dead, long live the Link! Valve's official Steam Link hardware may now be discontinued, but its software heart lives on, and now free on the Raspberry Pi. Just because we’re nice here at eTeknix though, you can visit the page in the link here! The instructions to convert your Raspberry Pi have been posted on the Steam forums. On the other hand though, Raspberry Pi’s are not only easy to come by, they are also cheap and remarkably easy to use for a variety of purposes. Well, as above, the chances are that if you really wanted a Steam Link, the only option for you to get one now would be in the semi-murky waters of 2nd hand retailers. The truth is that it’s probably better! Why? Well, apparently not, a user on the Steam Forums has shown a way in which you can get a Raspberry Pi to operate exactly as a Steam Link. With the product now officially removed from Steam, if you didn’t buy one, but wanted one, you may feel that you have missed out. It was, after all, no surprise to regularly see it heavily discounted in sales.

Despite it only having released about 3 years ago, the device (which was actually pretty decent) simply failed to catch on with consumers. Towards the end of November, Valve decided that it was finally time to put an end to the Steam Link.

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