Dbrand is Making a Steam Machines Companion Cube Skin, Obviously

I'm definite determination are much than a fewer of you who conscionable assumed that Dbrand would beryllium making a tegument for the newly-announced Steam Machine that lets you crook Valve's caller console-shaped gaming hardware into a weighted Companion Cube? At least, I wasn't astatine each amazed erstwhile I woke up this greeting to find an email from Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz saying the institution would beryllium announcing the caller Portal-referencing tegument today.

"Even aft accounting for the removable faceplate and aerial intake requirements, we're assured it's afloat viable," Ijaz said. He added that the institution volition beryllium "refining details implicit the coming month, but are registering involvement present and mean to bring the merchandise to marketplace successful aboriginal 2026." I'd stake that'll beryllium earlier the Steam Machine itself. You tin leap connected a mailing database for the Companion Cube tegument connected the Dbrand website.

Have a look astatine the Companion Cube Steam Machine skin, successful each its glory:

Hopefully you don't take to incinerate it.

Now we conscionable request the institution to make a tegument that, I don't know, makes the upcoming Steam Frame look similar Gordon Freeman's face. Or possibly 1 that conscionable says "HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED" (it's not) crossed the beforehand solid oregon the apical of the caller Steam Controller? Just spitballing here. Ijaz didn't connection up further details astir the Companion Cube tegument successful his archetypal email, but I person asked astir terms and whether the institution has considered making 1 for the Nintendo GameCube – due to the fact that wherefore not? We'll update erstwhile we person much information.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.