Forbes - I’ve been reading about this recent rather fantastic Twitter trend among the gaming crowd, #1reasonwhy, over the past few days. It was sparked by Luke Crane of Kickstarter who asked why there were so few female game developers in the 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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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.
Oh Lord, when will it end?
There certainly IS sexism in the game industry, but it is aimed at BOTH genders. ANY entertainment medium ANYwhere is going to use stereotypes and tropes in order to create characters that feel familiar or realistic. And as such, you will ALWAYS have character qualities that may come off as "sexist" because, hey, these are stereotypes based on real people, which is why we can relate to them.
But then again, you don't hear me crying and saying "bawww bawww Max Payne was written as a drunk, pill-popping, insensitive, murderour jerk! That is sexist to men and that offends me!" Nope.
Heck, I can't think of many women who are offended by games, either, unless they simply have an axe to grind. Most of this talk about "oversexualization" in video games is being brought up by White Knights and women who already have an agenda.
You know what? I'm going to write article after article about how chick flicks are sexist against men. You have that loyal nice guy but then the main woman breaks off their engagement and runs away with her "childhood sweetheart". That's sexist! Oh wait. Since I'm a man, I'm not allowed to be offended by stuff like that. Okay.
I just don't know why this always transforms into a feminist discussion. It's not gender-specific. Contrary to popular belief, scantily clad women are not inserted into games to exploit women. It's to try and attract a few shallow sales from their target demographic...men.