Joshua Mobley of VGU.TV rants about why he hates April fools day in the gaming industry.
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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Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.
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Shen Long was the best and only April Fools joke worth mentioning. There were people who claimed, long after EGM showed how they created the prank, that they had fought Shen Long.
I wonder how many quarters were lost in pursuit of him.
Wii Tuu and iPlay is among the two I've came across today.
There are some April Fools that are actually funny, because they're just totally non-sense (like the "Starcraft Kinect" http://www.youtube.com/watc... , Assassin's Creed for Kinect http://www.youtube.com/watc... or Alpine Legend http://www.youtube.com/watc... ), but some "jokes" are so much elaborate they actually feel real and you don't know if you should believe it or not.
That is even more disturbing when, like the article says, there are legitimate news you may not believe in because of April Fools.
Here in Motherland, there is a story about April Fools in the videogame industry. A renown website spread the news of a barely believable game (something about figure skating), but the news was so much elaborate that concurrent websites duplicated the story without checking if it was a hoax.
Of course, the original website revealed it was a total joke and the other websites felt ashamed for falling in such pathetic trap.
What I mean is, during April Fools, it can be possible to be fooled and to spread false informations based on flat jokes. So I totally agree with the article, April Fools suck when its anywhere related to journalism and informations.
Guild Wars 2 is doing something pretty cool to mark the occasion.