GamesRadar - Remember the '90s? Bill Clinton was president, internet was accessed through a phone line, and video games actually launched complete and mostly bug-free (or remained broken forever). Sega and Nintendo were kings, clawing at each other for market dominance, Sony was the young upstart with something to prove, and the Phillps CD-i was and forever will be a joke.
We take a lot of our modern conveniences for granted, especially with our always-connected infrastructure pumping game demos, trailers, new content, and patches directly to our consoles and computers. It's easy to forget that, for much of gaming's infancy, we didn't have any of that stuff, so publishers had to find creative ways to shove their marketing into our faces. These are some of the stranger methods Nintendo, Sony, and Sega used to market their products. Some worked, some didn't, but all of them are a product of their era.
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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.
Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.
I loved PlayStation Underground and PlayStation Magazine, especially with the demo discs
I was expecting the "BLAST PROCESSING!" to creep in there but the Nintendon't one slipped in there instead. Equally amusing. :D
Back in the day when many purchases were based on box art, hah.
Some of the best gaming commercials came from the 90s. This was also the time when the companies had no barriers in direct marketing attacks against each other.
Ahh.... The good old days. I remember everything they listed. Not only that but I had every issue of OPM, was a member of PlayStation Underground, and was even a member of the invitation only Gamers Advisory Panel (GAP). The times...How they change.
Blast Processing, Play It Loud, SEGA!!!!!!! Nintendon't those days were brutal.