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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced the creation of Xbox Labs, a new team within the organisation to “turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience.” The unit is a “a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists,” drawn from within the business, charged with rapid development, iteration and testing of…

The Indigenous Arts Initiative, which includes partners from the University of Kansas, will bring two distinguished Indigenous artists and educators to Lawrence this September for a series of free public workshops exploring art, culture, storytelling and filmmaking

Comic books are a hard hobby to get into. Long-running superhero comics especially have borne this stigma for decades, always being the subject of memes and jokes about how insanely convoluted reading comics is. I genuinely think this criticism is overblown. Comics can seem imposing, yes, and it’s definitely intimidating to know that there are…

— NFT trading platform TroveNFT has announced the launch of a global expansion initiative aimed at strengthening its international presence through intelligent trading technology, localized market services, creator partnerships, and global community development.

Note: An earlier version of this story ran in 2025. The article has been updated with new information for 2026.

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During its DC Next Level panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the publisher announced two high-profile ongoing series starring fan-favorite Black superheroes: a landmark Vixen title and a long-awaited return for Static.