Dbrand Is Now Taking Orders for Its Steam Machine Companion Cube Case, Ships in "Late July"

The "luxurious and expensive" Companion Cube volition diagnostic rear and bottommost ventilation, beforehand panels for accessing your small Linux gaming PC’s ports, and adjacent a slot cutout to fto the Steam Machine’s glowing LED portion radiance done the front.

The full beforehand sheet is magnetic and, therefore, easy removable for cleaning the Steam Machine’s beforehand grill. The backmost sheet is besides removable for accessing the ports backmost there, too.

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The Companion Cube is disposable successful 2 tiers. There’s a $129.99 “Companion Cube” mentation that comes successful a peculiar variation container that includes a fold-out "test chamber," a "cake-themed suede cloth," a reddish fastener basal stand, and an orangish and bluish Portal-themed Steam Controller skin.

As you whitethorn already know, the Companion Cube is from the Valve's critically acclaimed idiosyncratic puzzle platforming crippled Portal.

For $99.95, you tin bargain the “Poverty Cube” version.

It’s the Companion Cube successful a brownish cardboard box. That’s it.

The Companion Cube variation ships "Late July," portion the Poverty Cube mentation "ships eventually."

While the Steam Machine was initially expected to travel retired astatine the opening of 2026, the AI-fueled RAM situation caused Valve to deed the brakes backmost successful February.

Now, whenever Valve's Steam Machine does yet comes out, truthful you tin really usage that Portal-themed case, it's apt that it's going to person a higher terms than we initially thought it would.

After all, it wasn't agelong agone that the Steam Deck had a steep terms summation of its own, and that handheld is importantly weaker than Valve's promised mini gaming PC.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine places similar Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge.

This communicative contains contributions from Robert Anderson and Jackie Thomas.