// THE VERGE — GAMING
The cube was a lie: up close with our Dbrand Companion Cube before it gets destroyed
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Dbrand will destroy them all, but we took some photos first.
Dbrand will destroy them all, but we took some photos first.
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Dbrand is the company that shipped a product that told Nintendo’s legal team to “go fuck yourself,” and the company that had a second set of lawyer-dodging PS5 plates ready when Sony threatened to sue over the originals. But on June 29th, the company finally ate some serious humble pie, canceling its Portal-themed Companion Cube external shell for the Steam Machine after Valve lawyered up.
I couldn’t believe it. Surely Dbrand had to have seen this coming. There must be a plan B, right?
“There is no further plan. We fucked this one up,” Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz now tells me.