Critical Gamer writes: "I've always looked on with envy at the movie studios who can wheel out actors to promote their latest release" Capcom's head of UK marketing Stuart Turner told trade weekly MCV (issue 567, December 11th 2009). "Our talent are the programmers, artists, producers and other members of the development team, who can talk about their games at depth, but don't have the appeal of an actor".
What Turner means by that last statement of course, is that members of a development team don't have appeal for members of the public in general. People with a passion for gaming are often very interested in what these people have to say, particularly if it's something about an as – yet unreleased game. People with only a casual interest in gaming however couldn't care less what the developers have to say. They don't know or care who they are.
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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.
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It would be good if the industry did produce celebrities in this way - so long as it didn't stop the best developers from developing.
Yeah it would be awesome to hear more from Developers about there new games than getting the information from a press release
I must admit, I know what you mean about gaming having a lot of niche celebrities. March in to one circle of people and mention Gabe Newell, and everyone can easily spark up a conversation about Valve, Steam and Half-life. Walk in to a different crowd just a few inches away though, and they could just as easily all look at you sideways having no idea who or what you are talking about.
We definitely need some more celebrity types in the industry. Miyamoto is probably the most high profile, and listening to him talk about the development of a game is really interesting.
I agree with scruffy bear would love to see that in the gaming industry!