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ESRB, PTA Launch New Education Initiative
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) and the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) have launched a nationwide initiative to educate parents about game ratings, parental control technology on consoles and online gaming. — Next Generation

NASA Offers Educational Online Gaming Opportunity to Developers
NASA Learning Technologies sponsored a workshop to present its concept of delivering NASA content through a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) educational game to interested development partners. Designed to enhance learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), such an online educational game would draw players into a synthetic environment that can serve as a powerful “hands-on” tool for teaching a range of complex subjects. — NASA

Oberon Media Unifies Publishing Division under New I-play Brand
Oberon Media, a leading multi-platform casual games company, unveiled a new brand identity that communicates the scope of the company’s newly integrated publishing division. The consolidation around the new I-play brand affords developers, licensors, and content partners looking to introduce or expand their intellectual property, access to a single, multi-platform publishing powerhouse. — Ad-Hoc-News