DualShockers writes,
"The majority of us who grew up with gaming as our hobby of choice can easily remember the excitement we felt when we first heard and saw Nintendo's over-sized handheld, the Game Boy. Back in those days, the thing looked extremely high-tech and surpassed the expectations of many of its first buyers. Let's forget that it looked like a brick with a screen the size of a saltine cracker at the time - it was acceptable then. It was 1990, tech-toys were bulky as is, and people wore purple pants, orange shirts, and neon green cigarette-branded hats. The Game Boy was your "carry me around" toy that all your friends wanted to kill you for. The black pixels would impregnate the green-tinted screen with the sights of memorable titles like Tetris as we held the 15 pound gaming device while smiling to ourselves. I had man hands at the age of ten because of its exaggerated size.
About a year later, Sega decided to enter the realm of handheld gaming and released the Sega Game Gear – a monstrous device, larger than the Game Boy, which consumed more batteries than powered wheelchairs. But the Game Gear had one advantage over the Game Boy – it had color. But the competing mass was no competition for the Game Boy. As years passed, the Game Boy went through a couple of iterations and held it's throne as the king of handhelds. Color would soon embody the cumbrous gaming device – called Game Boy Color - as well as the welcoming of a game which featured a bunch of underage kids fiddling with tons of little balls and an unhealthy outlook at the possibilities of putting random creatures to beat the crap out of another for the sheer cause of competition and personal enjoyment – Pokémon – a game that sold extremely well on the Game Boy (and Michael Vick was a bad role model). Sony would later enter the market by releasing their modernized handheld game console - the PlayStation Portable (PSP) – while, at the same time, introducing their new optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), which became as useful as screen-doors on a submarine."
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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.
handheld gaming is relegated for use when a gamer cant get to a console, like flying or commuting on the train. If someone is home than they will typically play on their console of choice.
Handheld gaming did allow for an economical way to introduce younger gamers to games, just think of all the DS systems that touch young kids.
Neo geo Pocket along with TurboGraphix handheld were giant flops.
I have both the DSi and the PSP and I can say that I only own a handful of games for each. Not really a lot that appeals to me; thank god that my psp can play things like snes games and what not.