100,000 People Pre-Ordered This Case. Then It Vanished.

Dbrand cancelled its Companion Cube case for Valve's Steam Machine after racking up more than 100,000 pre-orders.

The accessory everyone wanted, killed in days

Dbrand first showed off the Companion Cube mod more than six months ago.

The mistake: build first, ask later

In a Reddit post that was unusually candid for a company in damage-control mode, Dbrand admitted the truth: despite all the work that went into designing and manufacturing the case, it had never…

Why this keeps happening to fan-made hardware

If you have followed the accessory and modding world for any length of time, this story rhymes with a hundred others.

The classy part: Dbrand did not blame Valve

Here is where the story gets more interesting than a standard corporate cancellation.

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