{"id":3161,"date":"2022-03-23T16:35:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/weekly-news-205-riot-animation-super-nintendo-world-dr-disrespect-nft-audi-vr-ontario-esports-scholarships-loco-42m-raise-ea-lootbox-win-gamestop-mess-sxsw-snub-toddler-gaming-chair\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:21:56","slug":"weekly-news-205-riot-animation-super-nintendo-world-dr-disrespect-nft-audi-vr-ontario-esports-scholarships-loco-42m-raise-ea-lootbox-win-gamestop-mess-sxsw-snub-toddler-gaming-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/weekly-news-205-riot-animation-super-nintendo-world-dr-disrespect-nft-audi-vr-ontario-esports-scholarships-loco-42m-raise-ea-lootbox-win-gamestop-mess-sxsw-snub-toddler-gaming-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly News #205: Riot Animation, Super Nintendo World, Dr Disrespect NFT, Audi VR, Ontario Esports Scholarships, Loco $42M Raise, EA Lootbox Win, Gamestop Mess, SXSW Snub, Toddler Gaming Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest weekly news and podcast after-show (sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yougov.com\/gaming-esports\">YouGov<\/a>), we discuss\u00a0Riot Games investing in the animation studio behind <em>Arcane<\/em>, a Super Nintendo World theme park coming in 2023, the Ontario Government setting aside $1 million for collegiate esports scholarships, Dr Disrespect launching gaming NFTs, Loco raising $42 million, Audi introducing VR capabilities in its cars, Dutch courts ruling in favor of EA on the subject of lootboxes, Reggie Fils-Aime commenting on his departure from GameStop\u2019s board of directors, Activision-Blizzard being uninvited by South By Southwest, VTech developing a gaming chair for toddlers, and so much more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessofesports.com\/2022\/03\/23\/weekly-news-205-riot-animation-super-nintendo-world-dr-disrespect-nft-audi-vr-ontario-esports-scholarships-loco-42m-raise-ea-lootbox-win-gamestop-mess-sxsw-snub-toddler-gaming-chair\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly News #205: Riot Animation, Super Nintendo World, Dr Disrespect NFT, Audi VR, Ontario Esports Scholarships, Loco $42M Raise, EA Lootbox Win, Gamestop Mess, SXSW Snub, Toddler Gaming Chair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}