The majority of Americans are currently under some form of stay-at-home order, meaning we're all spending a whole lot more time getting reacquainted with our couches. And with that extra down time, more people are turning to video games — especially as they look to distract themselves from the tragedy outside their doors.
Look no further than the record number of people simultaneously using Valve's massive Steam gaming platform for proof that gaming is offering people a needed outlet to pass the time and stay in contact with friends and family.
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Alex Ovechkin, Wayne Gretzky to test scoring skills in video games
Alex Ovechkin is just 188 goals away from tying Wayne Gretzky's career record of 894. And while the NHL season is on pause, fans will get the chance to see who truly is the greatest goal scorer -- in video games.
Gretzky and Ovechkin have agreed to square off in EA Sports' NHL 20 next Wednesday. The one-night event, played on Xbox, will be a best of-three-series and will be streamed on the Capitals' Twitch channel. All proceeds raised will go to the Edmonton Food Bank and Monumental Sports & Entertainment's Feeding the Frontlines fund, which supports coronavirus relief in the D.C. area.
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Top 10 sports video games to play in quarantine - The Spectrum
Each passing day reminds sports fans that both the NHL and NBA playoffs should be starting on April 8 and 18, and the MLB season should have started already. With all sports seasons on hold for the foreseeable future, video games have filled a huge void for fans. Twitch's peak daily users reached 22.7 million in March and Verizon reported that U.S. video game usage increased 75% during the first week of quarantine.
With everybody stuck inside, it's the perfect time to dust off that Nintendo 64 that's been sitting in your garage for 15 years and get ready to take a nostalgic trip down memory lane. We've compiled the top ten sports video games –– released during or after 1996 –– for you to play while stuck in the house. (And while'80s classics like "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" and "Tecmo Bowl" likely deserve a spot on this list, it's best to not invest in any super retro stuff if you don't need to.)
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Why games like Animal Crossing are the new social media of the coronavirus era | MIT Technology
If you'd told Areeba Imam a month ago that she'd become obsessed with Nintendo's Animal Crossing, she wouldn't have believed you.
"I've never played video games before," says the 23-year-old college student, who is currently hunkered at her parents' home in northern Virginia as the pandemic tightens its grip on the US. "The only game I knew about was Mario Kart on the computer, because my sister used to play it. I didn't even know there were different consoles."
Educators turning to video games amid covid-19 pandemic - The Washington Post
Kevin Péloquin, a history teacher from Montreal, hoped to take his high school students of Collège Saint-Hilaire on a trip to Greece. His mixed class from grades 10 and 11 would visit historical sites like the Parthenon and record their observations for a project they would later share with their classmates. Then the covid-19 pandemic scrapped their educational itinerary.
By March, the government of Quebec, like many other administrations across the globe, ordered school closures and the cancellation of school trips. Later came travel bans and border shutdowns, all to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus that had infected 2 million people around the world as of Wednesday.
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