The announcement o f new franchises always gets a gamer's attention and it looks like Electronic Arts will be doing just that very soon.
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.
Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
I am betting on a skateboarding game...I believe I saw it on GameSpot or something.
By the way, It will be hardly the game Tony Hawk has become after eight years of doing them, (great).
MGS, Halo, GTA, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Madden, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo...these are pretty much the biggest franchises in gaming history. considering EA own's Madden, and already has a worthy racer, that leaves the following genres: action/espionage, action/horror, rpg, open-world action sim, or an fps.
They wont try and rival GTA coz they already did with Godfather, it wont be a racing game coz they already publish Burnout and need for speed so they wont wanna lose sales, It wont be a FPS as they already publish Half Life 2 and the Timesplitters series and I assume they will also publish Haze from the same developer, my guess is a platformer to rival Mario or possibly a fantasy action adventure similar to Zelda! A survival horror game a la Ressy evil is possible but I think they would recognise that Capcom and Konami own this genre and everyone else who has tried to immitate it has pretty much fell flat on their face!