Commodore Gaming

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Commodore Gaming PV

Type	Public
Founded	As Commodore Gaming 2007, beforehand Commodore International 1954
Headquarters	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Key people	Bala Keilman, CEO
Industry	Computer hardware
Products	Desktops
Website	www.commodoregaming.com

Commodore Gaming are a manufacturer of high-end gaming specific PCs, which feature a process called C-Kin (pronunced Skin) which allows users to customise the outer case with a range of unique artwork.

The Commodore brand was re-launched in 2007 as a manufacturer of high-end purpose-built gaming computers. The line was rumored to be named Amiga, after the systems that Commodore International had previously manufactured since 1985, however, the product line revealed at CeBIT computer exhibition in Hanover, Germany on 21st March, 2007, did not include this branding. As of April 2007, Commodore Gaming will begin selling their line of high-end, home gaming PCs.

The company is based in Hessenbergweg, Amsterdam, and was founded in 2007 by its current CEO, Bala Keilman.

1 History
2 Competitors
3 C-Kin
4 Products
- 4.1 Desktops
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was an American electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. The company is also known under the name of its R&D operation, Commodore Business Machines (CBM). Commodore developed and marketed the world's best-selling desktop computer, the Commodore 64 (1982). The company declared bankruptcy in 1994, but since then, there have been several attempts to revive its Amiga systems.

[edit] Competitors

Commodore Gaming's main competitors are Alienware, who is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, and VoodooPC which is now part of Dell's biggest competitor, Hewlett-Packard.

[edit] C-Kin

C-Kin is the name used by Commodore Gaming for its design of individual PC cases. The company has a library of almost 100 designs that consumers can have painted on the case of their machine. Eventually it hopes to encourage customers, artists and others to submit designs that can be painted on PCs.

These designs can be changed by the consumer at any time. A spokesman for the company said there would likely be limited edition machines to go with new launches of games.

The company officially launched the range at CeBIT 2007^[1].