Grass is green, the ocean is blue, and EA is the biggest third-party game publisher in the world – these were some of the truths of the last generation of gaming. But then something happened. EA's game roster started to feel a little stale and their reputation amongst gamers plummeted with every callous franchise retread and double-handed money grab. Sure, they still pulled in phenomenal amounts of coin thanks to juggernauts such as The Sims, Need for Speed, FIFA and Madden, but the audience was expanding in new directions and EA was missing the boat. Thus, in 2007 Activision is set to overtake EA and become the biggest third-party publisher in gaming.
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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Activision seem to be making a lot of the mistakes that EA were making a few years back, just rolling games off the conveyor belt and pimping movie licenses left, right and centre.
As much as I hate the way EA have gone about a lot of their business, their upcoming game roster is brilliant. From Spore to Dead Space I'm totally keen.
They bring Road Rash and Desert Strike IP back. They seem back to their Amiga-like early quality gaming glory atm.
Quite respectable these days. I'd like to see less sports games developed internally, though.
This is the biggest third party out there and it's all just dandy for gamers that if these guys are on top, they are on that spot for pumping out quality product and innovation.