Our latest coverage of COVID-19.
Last week’s COVID-19 outbreak at PAX East 2022 has unfortunately already claimed one victim. Dawn “Deestar” Wood, a PAX Enforcer, reportedly returned home sick after the convention and died a few days after on April 30th. Wood’s sister has setup a Gofundme campaign for the bereaved family. “We know that many others had also come home sick (myself included) and [...]
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A gentle reminder to everyone that COVID-19 is still around and precautions should still be taken even though things seem to be going back to normal. Pandemonium Books & Games, one of the vendors during last week’s PAX East 2022 in-person event, reported on their COVID Tracker page that at least three of their employees who manned their booth at [...]
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Since the beginning of the year, numerous tech and gaming conventions and events have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic that’s claimed more than 200,000 lives in the US and over 1 million across the globe. Most event organizers have tried to hold on to their plans until the last minute before deciding to pull the plug or go [...]
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its deadly course, numerous video game companies and development studios have already opted to cancel events and conventions that were supposed to be held this year. The latest one to be pulled is Square Enix’s annual North American Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival which was scheduled for November in San Diego, California. FFXIV Producer and [...]
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Here’s today’s dose of COVID-19-related MMO and gaming news. Eighteen game companies, including Activision Blizzard, Riot Games, Unity, and Twitch among others, have teamed up with the World Health Organization to launch the #PlayApartTogether campaign in an effort to combat the spread of the deadly virus. “It’s never been more critical to ensure people stay safely connected to one another,” [...]
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Here we are again with your daily dose of COVID-19-related gaming news. More and more video game companies have transitioned to a remote working setup as an increasing number of countries and states are put under strict lockdown to try and put a stop to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These companies include Hi-Rez Studios, Rockstar Games, Jagex, ZeniMax [...]
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Starting the week off with COVID-19 news as per yoozh. Steam concurrent player numbers hit an all-time high this weekend at over 20 million players thanks to the quarantines currently in effect all over the world. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive also reached record-breaking numbers at one million concurrent players, the shooter’s highest player concurrency since it launched seven years ago. Other [...]
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In light of the Entertainment Software Association’s decision to cancel E3, several video game companies have begun looking at alternative ways to showcase their wares. According to IGN, Ubisoft and Xbox have recently announced their plans to host their own digital events instead. “E3 has always been an important moment for Team Xbox,” tweeted Xbox Head Phil Spencer. “Given this [...]
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Another round of video game companies have announced the cancellation of their events in light of the COVID-19 global outbreak. First up is Swedish video game developer Mojang. The Minecraft developer has decided to cancel this year’s Minecraft Festival in Florida. The decision to postpone the event wasn’t a direct result of the outbreak, but because the planning had to [...]
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The gaming industry continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 virus as six more gaming and tech companies announce the cancellation of their events as a precaution against the novel coronavirus. Epic Games has cancelled Unreal Fest Europe 2020 in Prague; Riot Games abandons their planned Valorant hands-on event this month; Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2020, which was [...]
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