Rediscovering Digital Nostalgia and Unlikely Fortunes

Google Play games are coming to Windows, while Microsoft was apparently willing to bend over backwards if Apple had let xCloud games into the iOS app store. Meta’s first tangible foray into the Metaverse. The English Football punters buying into NFTs. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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• Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022 (The Verge)
• MICROSOFT QUIETLY TOLD APPLE IT WAS WILLING TO TURN BIG XBOX-EXCLUSIVE GAMES INTO IPHONE APPS (The Verge)
• Meta opens up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds (The Verge)
• Football fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens (BBC News)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Pokémon and the First Wave of Digital Nostalgia (The New Yorker)
• Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump (The New Yorker)
• Amazon is making its own containers and bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes (CNBC)
• HOW AN EXCEL TIKTOKER MANIFESTED HER WAY TO MAKING SIX FIGURES A DAY (The Verge)
• Three Steps To The Future (Ben Evans' 2022 Slide Deck)
• On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke (The New Yorker)

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