The Steam Machine is finally here! Despite its extremely high price, the console could be compatible with a whole range of accessories. So far, the brand dbrand had actually prepared a stunning skin as a tribute to Portal.
This Companion Cube skin quickly became the brand’s second-fastest-selling product upon its release on June 22. Unfortunately, the celebrations were short-lived, as Valve immediately intervened to have the accessory pulled from the market.
In fact, dbrand had not sought permission from the American company to use the Portal franchise. All customers who had purchased the product will therefore be refunded. The team behind the Companion Cube issued the following statement.
“Over the next seven months, we poured our souls into this project. More than a thousand hours went into engineering from our industrial design team. Forty-four sets of injection molding tools were developed, one for each of the cube’s sub-components. The entire product was redesigned from scratch more than once, just to get the way it cradles the console exactly right.
We literally rented out a university campus to film the launch video. By the end, we were losing money on every $99 Poverty Cube sold, but it didn’t matter. This had turned into a passion project for the entire organization.”
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Author: 360 Technology Group
