Whipped and Steamy: Cosplay Café

Dbrand's Companion Cube case for the Steam Machine never had Valve's permission, and now the highly anticipated accessory is dead.

Your new Steam Controller screams if you drop it.

The new Halo: Campaign Evolved looks terrible on low-end hardware like the Steam Deck and Xbox Ally, with worse image quality than the older Master Chief Collection. If you want to play Halo handheld, you're better off with the older game.

Ever since the Steam Deck debuted in 2022, it's been one of my favorite devices. It was relatively affordable for a handheld gaming PC, but still powerful enough to play pretty much anything I would realistically play on the go. And while I still love the thing, the recent price increases make it almost impossible to recommend to anyone looking for a budget gaming handheld right now.

Just a few weeks after Dbrand revealed its Companion Cube was a lie (or rather that it didn't get permission to make it), the company is back with some new wraps for Valve's little cube-shaped gaming PC. They include nine fun new skins with matching Steam Controller options, among plenty of other options.The new skins can make your Steam Machine look like a basketball, black or white dice, a brick wall, a dusty old PC, the planet Earth, and a shabby old shipping package. In addition to those, there are also many familiar skin designs that Dbrand has sold for other products over the yea