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Rubik’s Cube gets a $299 update, complete with IPS screens and its own apps

culture, gaming, puzzles, Rubik's Cube, Toys / Rejus Almole / October 9, 2025

The Rubik’s Cube has been reinvented with more games and many more screens for much more money.

What has long been cherished as a simple toy yet complex puzzle requiring nothing but a healthy amount of twisting, turning, and patience has been rebooted for the 21st century. Naturally, that calls for a few dashes of technology.

Differing from the original Rubik’s Cube, which has six faces that each contain a 3×3 grid, the Rubik’s WOWCube, made available for preorder today, as spotted by The Verge, has six faces with 2×2 grids.

Rather than a solid-colored sticker, each of the toy’s 24 squares is a 240×240 IPS display. The cube itself is composed of eight “cubicle modules,” as Cubios, the company behind the toy, calls them. Each module includes three of those IPS screens and a dedicated SoC. As a Cubios support page explains:

Our patented magnetic connectors allow the modules to maintain perfect electrical contact and seamless data flow between them, no matter how the cube is rotated. This ensures that data can be transferred between autonomous modules on the fly, enabling data sharing and distributing low voltage power across the WOWCube …

Each of the 24 displays can be set to show a solid color for solving a simpler, but still captivating, Rubik’s puzzle. Alternatively, the screens can be twisted and turned to play dozens of different games, including Block Buster, Space Invaders, and Jewel Hunter.

The WOWCube weighs 11.29 ounces. Credit: Cubios

Also part of the toy is a gyroscope, 6-axis accelerometer, and eight speakers. Cubios claims the integrated battery can last for up to seven hours before needing a recharge.

In order to add games or other apps to the WOWCube, you must download the WOWCube Connect iOS or Android app, pair the toy with your phone over Bluetooth, and then use the mobile app to download games onto the WOWCube.

Currently, the WOWCube’s online app store lists 47 games; some cost money to download, and some aren’t available yet. The WOWCube runs its own operating system, dubbed CubiOS, and Cubios (the company) offers a free DevKit.

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The Talos Principle: Reawakened adds new engine, looks, and content to a classic

Are humans just squishy machines? Can an artificially intelligent robot create a true moral compass for itself? Is there a best time to play The Talos Principle again?

The answer to at least one of these questions is now somewhat answered. The Talos Principle: Reawakened, due in “Early 2025,” will bundle the original critically acclaimed 2014 game, its Road to Gehenna DLC, and a new chapter, “In the Beginning,” into an effectively definitive edition. Developer commentary and a level editor will also be packed in. But most of all, the whole game has been rebuilt from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5, bringing “vastly improved visuals” and quality-of-life boosts to the game, according to publisher Devolver Digital.

Trailer for The Talos Principle: Reawakened.

Playing Reawakened, according to its Steam page requires a minimum of 8 GB of RAM, 75 GB of storage space, and something more than an Intel integrated GPU. It also recommends 16 GB RAM, something close to a GeForce 3070, and a 6–8-core CPU.

It starts off with puzzle pieces and gets a bit more complicated as you go on. Credit: Devolver Digital

The Talos Principle, from the developers of the Serious Sam series, takes its name from the bronze-made protector of Crete in Greek mythology. The gameplay has you solve a huge assortment of puzzles as a robot avatar and answer the serious philosophical questions that it ponders. You don’t shoot things or become a stealth archer, but you deal with drones, turrets, and other obstacles that require some navigation, tool use, and deeper thinking. As you progress, you learn more about what happened to the world, why you’re being challenged with these puzzles, and what choices an artificial intelligence can really make. It’s certainly not bad timing for this game to arrive once more.

If you can’t wait until the remaster, the original game and its also well-regarded sequel, The Talos Principle II, are on deep sale at the moment, both on Steam (I and II) and GOG (I and II).