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

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American football fans who use the Rec Room social gaming app can now grab their favorite team’s gear for their in-app avatars, just in time for the NFL playoffs. A new pop-up shop in the Rec Room app lets users purchase licensed NFL hoodies and hats for their avatars to wear. (Rec Room Image).

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Makers of the original video promised that a second installment would premiere Tuesday, and promoted it at least 887 times on Facebook, from pages with hundreds of thousands of followers. The fact that the new video was likely to be taken down became part of the marketing campaign around it. So what happened after the video went up?

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Seattle entrepreneur Todd Hooper raises cash for mysterious new startup Aardvark Labs

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Hooper, who previously led virtual reality startup Vreal and also founded Zipline Games and Napera Networks, is listed on the filing. Hooper and Dutta also worked at Unity Technologies, the video game software giant based in San Francisco that has an office in the Seattle region. It raised a $11.7

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No more Zoom weddings in New York after Cuomo lifts executive order

The Verge

Virtual weddings, one of the more endearing traditions to emerge during last year’s pandemic-related lockdowns, are no longer legal in New York now that Gov. So in order to keep Zoom and other virtual weddings legal, new legislation would be necessary. Zoom weddings soared during the pandemic | Illustration by Grayson Blackmon.

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IntelliDyne’s ITAC Published Top 10 Tech Trends In 2015 For Government Enterprise Infrastructure Management

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LPTA Vs. Best Business Value – With Shared Services and Pay-Per-Use licensing, LPTA decisions will be judged on business metrics such as business impact, network efficiency and real-time reporting as part of a new evaluation paradigm.

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23 video games debuting this year with ties to the Pacific Northwest

GeekWire

19, as both a virtual-reality adventure on the Meta Quest 2, and a 2D first-person game that’s available on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, and Epic. Earlier games in the series were a peculiar balance between managing your characters’ social relationships with one another and simple but unforgiving tactical/strategy action.

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