Musk takes on Flint water crisis, the Overwatch League’s grand finals will be televised, Jam City is taking Harry Potter to Asia
Overwatch League Finals to Air on ESPN
Walt Disney Co. will air video game competitions for the Overwatch League playoffs on ESPN and Disney XD starting this month after signing a multi-year agreement with Blizzard Entertainment, the Business Journals reports.
Jam City’s Harry Potter Mobile Game Heads to Asia
Jam City Inc., a Culver City mobile game developer, launched “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery” game in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Socaltech reports. The game is already popular in the United States, but will appear in localized traditional Chinese on the Google Play and iOS app store. The game was developed in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Inc., and Portkey Games, a Warner-owned studio dedicated exclusively to producing Harry Potter games.
Billionaire and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, fresh off his unsuccessful attempt to rescue a lost soccer team in Thailand with a tiny submarine, now has a new plan to fix Flint, Mich.’s contaminated water. The local water supply in Flint hasn’t been drinkable since 2014, and Musk responded to a critic on Twitter saying he will “fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has contamination above [acceptable] levels.” ArsTechnica reports the state of Michigan has already started supplying water filters to residents, but Musk evidently believes his involvement with Tesla and SpaceX can accelerate the cleanup.
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