cnn.com: Julie Uhrman needed $950,000 from Kickstarter in less than a month to make her dream of an affordable, free-to-play gaming console a reality. She got it in eight hours and nearly $8 million more after that. And so was born Ouya, a $99 console that's shaped like and is just a hair bigger than a Rubik's Cube. It runs on Google's Android operating system and requires developers to offer a version of their games for free.
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
AMD has long been the best value option if you're looking for a new GPU. Now even their latest Radeon RX 7000 series is getting cheaper.
In the past yes but last gen amd has gotten cheaper and there new cards are on the horizon making 6k even cheaper.
The arc cards are no longer made by intel but asus/asrock has some the next line battlemage is coming out prices tbd.
Do to the longer software development its always best to go amd over intel if its not to much more money even though intel is a strong gpu i own 2/4 card versions.
the thing I don't like is they say 99$ for the console but u need to spend 50$ for a controller, so they should say 150$ for it and not 99$ , y buy a console when u cant play it without a controller.
"I remember growing up, playing with my sister ... I feel like we've lost that. I want to bring back the world of TV gaming."
It's almost as if the 360, Wii, and PS3 haven't sold roughly 250m units combined. You can't "bring back the world of TV gaming" if it never even left. It's still there and it's bigger than ever.
Anyway, for me personally, the Ouya is a waste of money for gaming. I already have an Android phone and tablet that are both just as powerful as the Ouya, and they let me play all the Android games I want. The only use I'd have for it is that for $99 it's a really good media player for Netflix, Youtube, etc. as my Tablet doesn't have an HDMI-out. But since it doesn't include the controller ($50) for that price, I'll just spend the $150 on a much better media hub.
Ouya will fail because it doesn't have this mans support
nah It seems like a cool alternative for gamers.
... and there goes ouya, the failed gaming console.
Ok, I havent been following this thing. I think I know why now.
Please, I'm not trolling it, (I know, people are always trolling when they say theyre not trolling.)
I just want to make sure I got all this straight.
Its android based but doesnt play the games in the Google store.
Its got the same processor as my phone, but less RAM.
Someone had to point out it needs an Ethernet and USB port.
The games need to be specifically designed for it and likely wont end up on any other consoles so devs really need to be sure they want to make this game.
You wont see any games on it that are on other consoles. The same franchises maybe, but they will be Ouya versions and will need to run through a Cloud service if they are console quality games and not simple phone games.
The games will either be free or have demos.
Devs will either have to make money by ads in the games, or by making a game say, like a shooter with a pistol, but then if you want a shotty you have to buy one.
I'm sorry, I know I'm sounding really negative, but the console sounds really unappealing to me. I can see a real problem with 3rd party support, which I assume is their olnly party unless they have bought inhouse studios.
I cant see why any devs would want to go to the effort of making games on this, and even if they did, I cant see why I would want to play them.
The whole thing sounds like someone was just drinking with mates and said, dude, what if we made our own console, and thanks to Kickstarter they did.
Oh well, good luck to them, they'll need it, as does everyone and they certainly are brave. We'll see how it turns out.