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The video game industry has a COVID hangover
The video game industry is suffering from a COVID hangover even a bottle of Pedialyte and a bacon, egg, and cheese can’t fix. After explosive growth throughout the pandemic, game sales are finally plummeting back to Earth. Both Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SONY), two of the world’s leading game companies, revealed this week that their gaming divisions saw year-over-year revenue declines, as soaring inflation takes a toll on the industry. It’s not just hardware and games sales that are taking a hit. Gamers are also spending less time playing than last year. Both Microsoft and Sony reported less engagement on their respective online gaming services, Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus.…
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Beijing city bans in-restaurant dining as China’s Covid controls tighten
As part of the latest Covid controls, China’s capital city of Beijing banned in-store dining as a five-day holiday kicked off, prompting restaurants to sell food outside. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — Two months since China’s latest Covid outbreak began, many businesses in the country’s two largest cities by GDP face new or existing constraints on operations. Over the weekend, the capital city of Beijing closed theme parks and banned dining in restaurants to control Covid — just as a five-day holiday got underway. During the holiday last year, domestic tourism revenue nationwide had more than doubled from the prior year, according to official…
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Freeport-area schools limit spectators for indoor sports due to COVID spike
A gym without spectators during the Freeport Yarmouth boys’ basketball game at Freeport. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer Spectators will be limited in indoor sporting events at the Regional School Unit 5 gym this winter due to concerns surrounding COVID-19. The guidelines, which were determined at Wednesday’s school board meeting, sets limits of six spectators per home player, four spectators per visiting player and a 40-person student-fan section. Regional School Unit 5 serves Freeport, Pownal and Durham. Basketball is the only sport that is held at the gym in the winter. The gym’s total capacity is around 700. “We are struggling throughout RSU 5 right now with our COVID cases,” said Superintendent…
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TCNJ Releases Indoor Sports COVID Policies, Masked Fans Welcomed
Story Links EWING, N.J. – Fans of TCNJ indoor winter sports teams will have the ability to cheer on the Lions in person as the institution has released its COVID-19 indoor sports policy. In accordance with The College of New Jersey campus policy, the rules below must be followed to attend indoor winter sporting events for the 2021-2022 season. These rules are in effect immediately and will be enforced beginning with the men’s basketball tip-off tournament on Nov. 12-13. The policy applies to all on-campus events for men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and wrestling. · Masks must be worn at all times…
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Hawaii water sports community grapples with confusion, inconsistencies in COVID rules
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Confusion over COVID rules and late decisions are creating chaos in Hawaii’s water sports community. On Oahu, a surf meet scheduled this weekend recently got approval from the city while approval came too late for a Hui Waa paddling race. There hasn’t been a full Hui Waa race schedule for more than two years. But over this past weekend, the organization finally received the go-ahead. However, six days notice wasn’t enough time to get crews back in the water. “On the 27th (of September), they (government officials) said we can go, which is great because we couldn’t understand why we couldn’t go,” said Hui Waa race director…
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Is it safe to attend sports games during Covid pandemic? Fauci advice
It’s an exciting time to be an American sports fan, from the U.S. Open tennis tournament and college football to the upcoming NFL season and MLB playoffs. Plenty of venues are either at capacity or expected to sell out soon. But now isn’t the time to prove that you’re a diehard fan. Rather, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, it’s too soon for fans to head back to full stadiums for in-person games. “I don’t think it’s smart,” the White House chief medical advisor told CNN’s “New Day” on Tuesday. Bringing tens of thousands of people together, even outdoors, prolongs the pandemic because it opens the door for the virus to spread.…
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