MasonicGamer: Since 1999 gaming has evolved drastically. Some of these changes have helped our industry blossom and some are fettering it.
Since the emergence of online gaming — PSN, Xbox Live and the like — the personal camaraderie of gaming seems to have all but disappeared. Remember games like Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64? Gaming was more social back in the day; we had more fun, we talked trash, we had beers, we socialised.
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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Anybody miss blowing the N64 cartridge?....... It had to be said.
I don't miss paying $60-$75 for my N64 games. Thats not too much now, but considering 96-99 as a teenager in sports and school, $75 before tax was not always easy to come up with. And people complain about $60 a game today considering the 90's also had SNES and Genesis games going for $75 with Virtual Racing costing me $100. Oh don't get me started on the Neo Geo carts, only system I wanted but couldn't afford to buy the software until the CD version.
I miss having some awesome non-Mario 3D platformers (Spyro, Crash, Banjo, etc), instantaneous load times on N64, and splitscreen MP.
Miss 4: Buying a Game, the Whole Game and Nothing but the Game
Amen to that! Whoever started the DLC craze should be shot!
In the old days we unlocked characters (not buy them for $5), we unlocked extra maps, secrets were uncovered during exploration, games of the past had more bang for your buck.
To bad those days are gone cause DLC is unfortunately here to stay.
I disagree with number 4 on don't. gaming in my opinion was better when it was a hermit hobby because developers did not have to worry about making games that appealed to the masses.