Video game arcades are fast disappearing from the scene. Roger Sharp, director of marketing for game machine manufacturer WMS Gaming (formerly Williams), says:
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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.
I remember when the first Soul Calibur was released in the Arcade at Peter Piper Pizza. I must've only been about 5 or 6 years old. I probably wasted at least 50 tokens on that game. I miss it...:(
I remember I used to go to my local chip shop to play Street Fighter when I was like 8, great times...... wish they still had them I would go out and play on one now.
Well here in Phoenix we have Gameworks and Dave and Busters...These places don't really have the newest games though and they love to rape you on the price per game. Some costing almost 4-5 dollars a game. F that. Arcade could make a comeback if they weren't ridiculously expensive and such a stale experience here in the states.
There's a little hole-in-the-wall place in downtown Austin where nothing is more than $.50; there's a little mix of old and new.
Though, whenever I go to the boardwalk in New Jersey, 75% of arcades full of claw machine. It blew my mind. There were even claw machines offering Wiis and 360s.
Does not matter to me. I have 5 Arcades in my home. If you wanna see them let mek now and I will send you the link to my photobucket account.