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Rec Room teams up with NFL in latest partnership for Seattle gaming startup

GeekWire

Over the course of the last six years, both Rec Room and its player community have created thousands of pieces of virtual clothing for avatars to wear, such as hats, suits, T-shirts, and carried accessories. A new pop-up shop in the Rec Room app lets users purchase licensed NFL hoodies and hats for their avatars to wear.

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Analysis: Microsoft’s regulatory concessions in Activision deal may tamper Xbox ecosystem growth

GeekWire

(Activision Blizzard Image) Microsoft may end up controlling a shocking amount of the most popular, beloved video game franchises in modern media if its $69 billion bid to buy Activision Blizzard passes regulatory scrutiny. The EU will require Microsoft to automatically license “popular” Activision Blizzard games to competing cloud services.

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The Rise of OER and Digital Textbooks in Higher Education

Kitaboo

Digital media can now be accessed on multiple devices, including smartphones, thanks to digital textbook platforms like KITABOO , which have revolutionized the way educational content is consumed. However, considering the power of DRM, it is best to check specific licenses like the Creative Commons licenses for re-use permissions.

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Meet 6 women of color-led startups that pitched their businesses in Seattle

GeekWire

” The company uses virtual, augmented, and mixed reality along with AI to create interactive learning experiences. The company aims to scale through a digital course and by licensing its intellectual property, Pham said. Reetu Gupta.

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Here’s why so many video game developers are suddenly abandoning the Unity engine

GeekWire

(Unity image) In the wake of a controversial policy change by game engine developer Unity , dozens of small independent video game studios have announced they’ll abandon the engine and/or have called upon Unity to reverse course. As widespread as it is in console/PC gaming, though, Unity is used virtually everywhere in the mobile space.

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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ in 2023: Wizards of the Coast reveals ‘Planescape’ revival and more

GeekWire

A few weeks later, that ended with Wizards publicly walking back any plans to change those rules, as well as releasing the basic rules for fifth-edition D&D for free, under a Creative Commons license. We want this to be an ‘everyone game,’” Stewart said at the media summit.

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How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day

The Verge

She uses her iPhone and consumer software to make her videos, and I’ve got to say, she has one of the healthiest relationships with the social platforms of maybe any creator I’ve ever talked to: she thinks of them purely as marketing channels for the video courses she sells elsewhere. I have Google Sheets courses as well.

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