GoKawiilis a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.
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Steam Machines have returned: all the news about Valve’s new hardware universe
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.
He says Dbrand will now have to destroy every single cube it manufactured, and it won’t even get to throw them in an incinerator for thematically appropriate fun.
Here’s the good news: I took up-close-and-personal photos of the (likely) copyright-infringing gadget for posterity on June 19th, before the lawyers struck. You can wistfully imagine what could have been, or use them as an outlet for your schadenfreude at Dbrand’s incredibly embarrassing mistake... or both! I won’t judge.
Here are all my photos in roughly chronological order:
You can blow up any of these photos larger by tapping on them once or twice.
The barcode reads “THE CAKE IS A LIE”.
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