Do your kids like video games? Chances are, they my have drawn up a couple ideas of their own for new titles - which, up until now, would have stood very little chance of ever turning into a real product. But thanks to a team-up between Best Buy, EA, and the United Inventors Association, kids now have a unique opportunity to see their ideas made into gaming reality.
The three companies are co-sponsoring a contest called Invent A Game, which "challenges kids between 5 and 19 to come up with original, quirky and ground breaking ideas for an online game." Winners will recieve a $10,000 savings bond and have their game produced by EA. Entrants living in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia also stand to win a $1000 savings bond and a $100 Best Buy gift card if their submission is ranked as #1 in their state. The deadline for entries is March 31st. In addition, there's another contest called Game Active which encourages entrants to share their stories of games inspiring them to become healthy and improve fitness. Selected stories will be featured on Best Buy's website.
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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.
Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.
