MWEB GameZone writes: After the disappointment of Ghosts, Activision launched an aggressive advertising campaign to lure lost fans back to answer their Call of Duty in Advanced Warfare. A recent pre-order sales analysis from Cowen & Co, indicates that the Call of Duty franchise is in a cycle of decline
But, are pre-order sales figures an indication of success or failure? As we've seen with Ghosts, the CoD franchise has perhaps become "review-proof" and it will continue to break sales records, even though it could fail in the eyes of fans."
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.
IMO All that needs to happen is that a good game needs to be made. Nothing more, nothing less.
hope so. The gaming industry was a victim of CoD's success. All it did was influence others to flood the market with the same crap and the industry also became inflated. CoD declining is more of a good thing rather than bad.
I think Ghosts was a blight on the COD franchise. From the tournaments that we ran over the last year, you see a marked decline in the amount of competitors taking part. It was even to the point that some of the players after our final event actually broke the Ghosts disk...they were so relieved to be finally past it. At the same time, the players are quite upbeat about Advanced Warfare because it gets rid of some of the stupid game modes like Blitz and brings back the well liked Hardpoint and Capture the Flag. However, there will be those that played Ghosts not and are not prepared to give the new developer the benefit of the doubt, so I am unsuprised by the downturn.
We shall see, i wish AW the best of luck but wont grant it any leniency if it sucks.
We want zombies it's been three years now since we had zombies