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Heroes star, iPhone app developer to auction video chat session

Greg Grunberg knows how to stay busy. In addition to starring as Matt Parkman in NBC's Heroes, he's also getting ready to launch an iPhone app as a co-founder of Yowza!!. When he's not at work, he also plays drums in the TV star charity cover band Band from TV, which he also-co-founded. Now, he's got another charity project on his plate: he's auctioning off 30 minutes of video chat time to benefit the Epilepsy Foundation of America.

The auction will be held March 26, 2009 on humanety.com, a web site that auctions video chat sessions with people that would otherwise be hard to meet. Listed among the "humanetarians" who have also offered one-on-one chats are The Guild writer, producer and actress Felicia Day; GizWiz founder and MAD Magazine writer Dick DeBartolo; Wine Library entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, and others.

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

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.

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just_looken1d 17h ago (Edited 1d 17h ago )

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
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Flame of Valhalla is a Nordic Fantasy MMORPG Up for Pre-registration

Leniu Games has started taking pre-registrations of its Nordic fantasy open world MMO, Flame of Valhalla. This game features the War of Gods erupted in the mystical realm of Asgard, known as the land of gods as seen in various movies and TV series. The game is expected to release in first half of May 2024.

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Indie hit Dredge is getting its own movie adaptation

Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.

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