The Steam Controller Wilhelm Scream Easter Egg Is Incredible

Thanks to Reddit, one of the best little secrets of the Valve Steam Controller has been discovered. Now I can't stop dropping it, because it turns out it makes a Wilhelm scream if it does. I tested it, and can confirm. You don't even need the controller paired to anything to make it happen.

Throughout my several-week review of Valve's new game controller, I never knew that it made the infamous Wilhelm scream, a stock sound effect that has been used in hundreds of movies, when dropped. How would I know it did that? I don't drop controllers. Or I don't intend to.

But that's exactly what the controller does when dropped even lightly on any surface. I picked up and dropped the controller a bunch of times onto my sofa, from about 3 feet, and that iconic scream that my kids love happened. Check out the video below.

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