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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.
I still remember when Tomb Raider came out, it has to be the first video game that people want to watch you play, even people that don't play video games
I got TR a a 13 year old all those years ago, still best TR game out, followed closely by the rebbot IMO
Wow? 96? My friends across the pond have a much different view than I do. 96 might have been the best year of the decade, and to me that's a big might. The best year of the 90s, IMO,would be 1998
Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Daggerfall, Red Alert, Diablo.. pivotal year in gaming. It was also the year I got absolutely hooked on online gaming with Duke3d and the Total Entertainment Network.
And remind yourself of some of (my) highlights of the following years (I'll stop just before the year of the sequel 2004 - look it up just how many sequels there were in that year). Years are for PC / console release, not arcade release and generally European release.
1997- The Curse of Monkey Island
Quake 2
Tomb Raider 2
1998 - Banjo Kazooie
Ocarina of Time
Half Life
Resident Evil 2
1999 -
Crash Team Racing
Donkey Kong 64
Quake 3 Arena
Rayman 2
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Seaman
Shenmue
Silent Hill
System Shock 2
Tomb Raider : The Last Revelation
2000 - Banjo Tooie
Jet Set Radio
Perfect Dark
Timesplitters
American McGee's Alice
Crazy Taxi
2001 - Alone in the dark : The New Nightmare
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Devil May Cry
GTA3
Halo : Combat Evolved
Ico
Luigi's Mansion
Max Payne
Silent Hill 2
Sonic Adventure 2
Wave Race : Blue Storm
2002 - Eternal Darkness
Jet Set Radio Future
Kingdom Hearts
Metroid Prime
Resident Evil remake
Resident Evil Zero
2003 - 1080 Avalanche
Beyond Good and Evil
F Zero GX
Grabbed by the ghoulies
Gregory Horror Show (very niche).
Mario Kart : Double Dash
Max Payne 2
Legend of Zelda : the Wind Waker (very late 2002 in Japan)
Outrun 2
Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time
Rayman 3
Silent Hill 3
Viewtiful Joe
From 1996 to 2003 it was a truly great run of gaming years.
2004, the year of the sequel, arguably saw a shift to games companies playing safer and, after that there only seemed sporadic numbers of great games before the next generation e.g. Resident Evil 4 in 2005 and it took a few years, perhaps until Bioshock and later Uncharted 2, until we started to see the quality of those earlier years which were largely formed by the brief life of the Dreamcast, the early blossoming of the Gamecube and some artsy games on the PS2.
Looking at the above years, 96 may have had Mario 64, Tomb Raider and Resident Evil, the source of the future of gaming really, but how could you overlook 1999, 2001 , 2003 (or the years inbetween, smaller in great games but sometimes of very high quality)?