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By Jane Wakefield
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David Baszucki, is about to become a very rich man, as his video-game platform, Roblox, floats on the New York Stock Exchange, valued at a cool $30bn (£21.6bn).
Already, he has bigger ambitions for the game, which he hopes can become the centre of the so-called Metaverse - an online world not just for gaming but for work and learning, too.
But what is the appeal of a title whose audience mainly consists of the under-12s?
And can its future lie beyond games?
Gaming marketplace
Roblox is already the world s largest user-generated games site. Players use core building components to create and share online worlds that anyone can explore.
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Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and share them with Urban Milwaukee readers. They are national (or international) links, sometimes entertaining and sometimes absurd, but hopefully useful.
Cities shrinking because nobody’s moving in: In 2020, the number of people who left cities was not significantly higher than previous years. The number of people moving in, however, did drop almost twice as much as the size of departures according to research from the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank. To fix this, policy should all be in service of targeting the inhabitants who have not yet arrived. (