Dbrand’s Steam Deck case is fixed — and there’s a ROG Ally version now

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A portable gaming PC with joysticks and buttons black
The Asus ROG Ally handheld PC in a Dbrand Killswitch case. | Images: Dbrand

Your Asus ROG Ally gaming handheld is brilliantly white, and that will not stand: you’ve decided your gadgets must be black. Or... maybe you just want a rugged case that’ll survive a drop or three? Either way, Dbrand thinks it’s got what you need — a $60 Killswitch case like the one it makes for the Steam Deck that’ll ship early next year.

“But wait,” I will pretend to hear some of you thinking, “Didn’t Dbrand royally screw that up? Didn’t The Verge trigger a million-dollar recall when you folks discovered it interfered with a Steam Deck fan?”

Yes — but Dbrand did rapidly recall them, admitted its mistake, then shipped a replacement Killswitch 2.0 that I’ve been testing for months with no issue. It’s still an impressively rugged,...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23924719/dbrand-killswitch-asus-rog-ally-steam-deck-update

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