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The developer of Cozy Grove and Alphabear is leaving Netflix. Spry Fox is being sold back to its original founders, Game File reports, and will continue to work on its upcoming "cooperative village life sim" Spirit Crossing as an independent company. Unlike other shuttered Netflix games studios Team Blue and Boss Fight Entertainment, Netflix will remain involved with the studio as Spirit Crossing's publisher on mobile.As part of the arrangement, Spry Fox founders David Edery and Daniel Cook will be able to shop Spirit Crossing to other publishers for console and PC releases of the game. While reverting to being an independent studio is definitely a happier version of the typical studio closure story, it might not be without issues. Game File reports that layoffs at Spry Fox are still possible and the developer will need to find additional funding to continue long-term. Spirit Crossing may also need to be altered so that Spry Fox can continue to make money from the game after players purchase it.Netflix acquired Spry Fox in 2022, a little over a year after it acquired Oxenfree developer Night School. Spry Fox released its first game for Netflix subscribers, a sequel to Cozy Grove, in 2024. The studio formally announced Spirit Crossing in March of this year, as an ambitious attempt to fuse the cozy life simulation elements of something like Animal Crossing: New Horizons with the online social experiences of MMOs like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV. That pitch apparently no longer jives with Netflix's current game strategy, which changed when Epic Games' Alain Tascan took over from ex-EA executive Mike Verdu. Whereas Netflix Games under Verdu acquired studios, funded projects and licensed an eclectic collection of mobile games for Netflix subscribers, Tascan has refocused the company's games business around titles based on Netflix IP, social party games and known quantities, Game File writes. Spirit Crossing doesn't fit neatly into any of those categories, which might be one reason Netflix is parting ways with Spry Fox.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/netflix-is-getting-rid-of-another-of-its-game-studios-by-selling-it-back-to-its-founders-203645232.html?src=rss
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The White House is proposing to roll back vehicle mileage standards put in place under the last administration, President Trump announced on Wednesday. The standards in question, set by the Transportation Department, set minimum miles per gallon that automakers’ fleets have to meet. However, enforcement of the standards were recently gutted in the president’s Big Beautiful Bill: [...]
The EU is inching towards the introduction of its planned pan-European digital identity wallet, designed to give citizens access to public and private services within its single market. But as European institutions sort out the details of the EU Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallets functioning, policy experts are examining if the project could lead to a “Brussels effect” outside of the economic bloc – and whether Europe should collaborate with other countries on standards.EC invites public to comment on remote user onboarding to EUDI WalletThis week, the European Commission released a draft regulation on standards for remote user onboarding to the EUDI Wallet and invited public comments.The draft implementing act notes that user onboarding is a “crucial step” for verifying the identity of wallet users and binding their personal identification data to the device containing the digital wallet. The feedback period will last four weeks, from December 2nd to December 30th, 2025.Ronny Khan, senior advisor at the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, commented on the draft.“This is technology neutral and does not exclude, but rather includes, fully automated methods,” he says. “For now, this is about upgrading the existing eIDAS user base to the wallet, but may form the basis for starting from zero at a later stage.”ECDPM: ‘Brussels effect’ should be replaced by a ‘Third way’Europe’s decision to develop its electronic identification and trust services toward wallet-based digital identities could lead to another “Brussels effect:” EU identity standards could become global and force companies to adopt them even when operating outside of the continent.However, not everyone believes that the EU will be able to maintain its regulatory dominance, according to a paper from the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM).The ‘Brussels effect’ can only work if Europe remains a significant single market and EU rules remain an effective benchmark for countries that want to establish legal frameworks for governing technology. Recent developments, such as the European Commission’s unveiling of the Digital Omnibus package and its proposed changes to AI and data rules, have put that benchmark under question.The changes have also created divisions among those who believe the measures are an attempt at deregulation and those who praised it as an attempt to simplify the EU's complex digital rulebook.At the same time, a growing number of countries, including India, Brazil, and Japan, are developing their own digital regulatory frameworks, says the Netherlands and Belgium-based think tank.One solution for the EU is a multinational “third way” and working with other global players on defining digital regulation.“Shifting geopolitics requires a change in the European Union's approach – moving from regulatory dominance to one of partnership with other global actors,” says the paper. “The time has come for the Commission to scale this approach to build open protocols that help with the rollout of its regulatory framework.”
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