Destructoid writes: LucasArts explored porting "games like Monkey Island" to the iPod. Weak software sales numbers and a company repositioning prevented the titles from being developed.
Speaking with us about Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, the game's producer Craig Derrick said the game took anywhere from over three years to nine months to finish. It's all perspective: three-and-a-half years ago, Derrick's first project was to find ways to put classic games on different platforms. One of those select platforms was the iPod.
"Depending on how you look at it, it took either 3 ½ years or 9 months," Derrick told us via e-mail. "My very first project at LucasArts was exploring ways to bring games like Monkey Island to new platforms, including porting it over to the iPod."
"At the time, though, there wasn't a big market for games on iPod and the company was beginning a large push towards new IP, so I transitioned into our incubator group. However, I never forgot about Monkey Island or how cool it would be to revisit it one day. Luckily, that day came last summer when I had the opportunity to pitch the Special Edition idea to our new president, Darrell Rodriguez, and the rest as they say is history."
Interesting stuff. Reliving classic LucasArts titles via an iPod isn't something we've considered. One thing is for sure, though: finding the hidden brick in Maniac Mansion would have been even more of a bummer on a smaller screen.
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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.
That'd be a great idea. The DSi would also be a good option for point and click games.
iPod? How about PSN first. I want the MI remake on the PSN. Yes I could get it for the PC but I would love to buy it on my PS3.