The end of the year has been particularly exciting in the world of gaming  big announcements in the PC market for new hardware that will allow the platform to hit new benchmarks and allow for more development options, and the next generation of consoles have also arrived with both the Xbox Series X and PS5 being met with great early reviews and excitement for the few exclusives that have arrived with them. But it's mob

Mobile Gaming Continues to Break Records

Microsoft expanded its esports scope Wednesday, announcing the acquisition of tournament event platform Smash.gg.In a tweet from the MSN_Esports account, Microsoft wrote, "Big news everyone! @smashgg is joining us at Microsoft. Same great tournament organization features. Same amazing team. Even more support and opportunities. Get ready to play!"Smash.gg added on Twitter, "With this acquisition, the Smash

Smash.gg to be swallowed up by Microsoft

Microsoft promises business as usual after Smash.gg acquisition

Microsoft expands its esports network

New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI/PRNewswire): The elite list of '100 Most Admired BrandsInspirational Leaders' which features the epic journey of prominent brands and leaders across industries is out in the market and was revealed at the 8th White Page Leadership Conclave (virtual) held on 28 and 29 November 2020. This conclave also witnessed the release of 50 Marketing Marvels- The Best MarketingCommunications Professi

8th White Page Leadership Conclave - 2020

Epic Gaming celebrated a Fortnite milestone as its Galactus event peaked at 15.3 million concurrent players on Tuesday, easily surpassing an Astronomical event from earlier this year.

The Galactus event, which also enticed 3.4 million looking in on YouTube and Twitch, sent sailing past the 12.3 million concurrent Fortnite players watching in-game in Travis Scott's event in June.

"We defeated him!" read a tweet from Epic

Galactus event sets Fortnite concurrent-players mark

The Boston Uprising continued their offseason roster overhaul with the signing of tank player Seo "Stand1" Ji-won on Wednesday.

Stand1, 21, played for the Shanghai Dragons last season. The South Korean helped Shanghai win the May Melee and the Countdown Cup in the APAC region. The Dragons also reached the semifinals of the Overwatch League playoffs after leading the regular season with a 27-2 record.

Stand1 has also pre

Boston Uprising sign tank player Stand1

For the second day in a row, Team One rallied for a victory Wednesday, this time earning a spot in the DreamHack Masters Winter 2020: North America semifinals.

Mythic jumped in front, but Team One came back for a 2-1 victory in the Group B winners' match. Chaos Esports Club also nabbed a semifinal berth by sweeping Rebirth Esports 2-0 in the Group A winners' match.

The $70,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event has 

Team One, Chaos reach DreamHack Winter NA semis

Lausanne [Switzerland], December 3 (ANI): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that a joint delivery partners meeting, a coordination commission update and a joint steering forum, involving the IOC and International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Paris 2024 and its local stakeholders were organised remotely on Tuesday and Wednesday.
IOC, in a statement, said that this gave the organising committee the opportunity t

IOC, IPC praise engagement central to Paris 2024's plans

Gideon George scored 13 points and had a game-high 15 rebounds Wednesday afternoon as the Cougars used a series of second-half surges to beat St. John's 74-68 in a Legends Classic game at the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn.

Alex Barcello had a team-high 20 points and five assists for the Cougars (3-1), who had five players score in double figures as they bounced back from a 79-53 loss to Southern California on Tu

BYU rebounds by surging past St. John's

FURIA Esports and mousesports advanced to the playoffs out of Group B at the DreamHack Masters Winter 2020: Europe event on Wednesday.

Both won their upper-bracket matches by 2-1 scores, with FURIA defeating G2 Esports and mousesports pulling off a reverse sweep to defeat GODSENT.

In the Group B lower bracket, Astralis knocked out Team Liquid in a sweep and North eliminated Nemiga Gaming with a 2-1 win.

FURIA sandwiche

FURIA, mousesports advance at DreamHack Winter EU

Swedish prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged a player over match fixing in Sweden's top football league.The Prosecution Authority did not name the player but said that at the time of the crime he played for IF Elfsborg, a club in Sweden's top league Allsvenskan.The case revolved around a game played in May 2019 when the player was handed a yellow card."Shortly after the game, the player w

Swedish footballer charged with match fixing

California [US], December 2 (ANI): The search giant Google recently announced the best apps and games on the Play Store in India for 2020 along with the Users' Choice Awards 2020.
According to Mashable, Google also added a few new categories to its Best of Play picks, including "special picks for the best apps for personal growth and everyday essentials".
Google declared Sleep stories for calm sleep - Meditate with Wysa a

Google Play Store's list of Best Apps, Games in 2020

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 2 (ANI): Krikey, an Augmented Reality mobile gaming company, has launched Yaatra, a new augmented reality game in India, with Jio.
Jio also led the Series A funding round, taking the total funding raised by Krikey to $22 million, a release said.
It said that with just their mobile phone camera, players can step into the action-adventure story of Yaatra and join the quest to defeat a 

Krikey launches AR based game 'Yaatra' with Jio

The video game 'Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War', released in November 2020, offers the most insane Cold War plot line, featuring a Soviet spy named Perseus. Sounds like the usual hogwash, yet there's more to it than meets the night-vision eye.Russian bad guys are frequent foes in the Call of Duty shooter series, one of the top-grossing franchises on the planet. The first games revolved around World War II, but

How the new Call of Duty game reimagines Russian bad guys

Young people watching the rancor between political parties and among average Americans say they do not expect it to get better anytime soon."No one seems to want to listen to the other side, and it's halting any possible progress that could be made otherwise in terms of finding out how best to run the country and what would make the most people happy," said Christopher Charles Laverde, 22, who writes for the pop

Political Rancor Feels Old to America&#039;s Youth

Doha [Qatar], December 2 (ANI): The Supreme Committee for DeliveryLegacy (SC) on Wednesday announced that the inauguration of the stadium located in Al Rayyan will take place on December 18, which is also the Qatar National Day, exactly two years before the country hosts the FIFA World Cup final.
The stadium which will become the new home of Al Rayyan Sports Club -- is the fourth Qatar 2022 tournament venue to open follow

FIFA World Cup stadium to be inaugurated on December 18

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 2 (ANI/PRNewswire): Gupshup today announced the launch of a new IP-based messaging channel that will enhance the way businesses communicate with consumers. The Gupshup IP (GIP) messaging channel enables rich, interactive, conversational experiences on any device globally, without requiring an app download of any kind. This will accelerate the emerging trend of conversational messagin

Gupshup launches a new messaging channel

Dubai [UAE], December 2 (ANI): England's left-hand batsman Dawid Malan has attained the highest-ever rating points for batsmen in the ICC Men's T20I Player Rankings after showing impressive performance in the recently concluded series against South Africa.
Malan was adjudged as the Player of the Series for his performance against South Africa. The 33-year-old left-hander now has 915 points in T20I rankings and he is the f

England dethrone Australia at top of T20I rankings

Heroic advanced to the playoffs of the DreamHack Masters Winter 2020: Europe event thanks in part to a quadruple-overtime map win Tuesday, and Gambit Esports also booked a playoff spot.

In the upper bracket of Group A, Heroic topped Team Spirit 2-0 and Gambit got past Complexity Gaming 2-0.

Spirit face a losers-bracket matchup Thursday against Cloud9, a 2-0 victor over ENCE on Tuesday in a first-round losers-bracket con

Epic map win helps Heroic advance at DreamHack Winter EU

Team One and Mythic opened with wins Tuesday as their group began play in the DreamHack Masters Winter 2020: North America event.

Competing in Group B, Team One defeated Yeah Gaming 2-1, and Mythic knocked off the New England Whalers by the same score.

The $70,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event has eight teams competing. There are two four-team groups, with all matches in a best-of-three format. The top two team

Team One, Mythic post wins in DreamHack Winter NA

Stanford showed it can go toe-to-toe with one of the top programs in the country, losing by four points to No. 14 North Carolina in the Maui Invitational semifinals on Tuesday.

Now, the Cardinal (1-1) will look to build off what it learned when it faces Indiana on Wednesday afternoon in the third/fourth-place game of the tournament at the Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, N.C.

Stanford led by as many as eight point

Stanford, Indiana square off for third place in Maui Invite

An Iranian constitutional watchdog has approved a law requiring the government to suspend United Nations inspections of the country's nuclear facilities and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers if sanctions are not eased in one month.The Guardians Council approved the legislation on December 2, a day after it was passed in parliament in 

Iran&#039;s Guardians Council Approves Law To Harden Nuclear Stance

The electorate in Kazakhstan will sleepwalk through next month's parliamentary elections, which will be utterly dominated, as usual, by the Nur Otan ruling party.Turnout will be strong, because if there is one thing the authorities are effective at, it is press-ganging the masses into taking part in pseudo-democratic performances. But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment."We have no cho

Kazakhstan sleepwalks toward choice-free parliamentary election

Toxic waste and electronic waste (e-waste) is generated from a wide range of industries - such as health, hydrocarbon or manufacturing - and can come in many forms, such as sludges or gas. E-waste is used electronic items that are nearing the end of their useful life, and are discarded or given to be recycled. If these types o

Toxic waste dumping in the Gulf of Guinea amounts to environmental racism

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clearer than ever that we are at risk of losing control of our economies.Our institutions have increasingly struggled to meet the challenges of economic development before the crisis, and yet throughout the pandemic we've seen surging <a href="

Why we should rein in the big tech giants in 2021 - and beyond

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 2 (ANI/NewsVoir): Amidst the current scenario where businesses are trying to get back in motion, CFBP held the 32nd Jamnalal Bajaj Awards for Fair Business Practices at the Indian merchant chambers lifting spirits of the corporates on the evening of 1 Dec 2020.
Kotak Mahindra, VIP Industries Ltd., CRISIL Ltd., GSK Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and many other reputed companies were awarded in 

CFBP holds its 32nd Jamnalal Bajaj Awards

Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 3 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan participated as Chief Guest at the "Hygiene Matters" seventh WASH Conclave organised by UNICEF and the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR).
Addressing the participants at the 7th WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Conclave via virtual mode from Raj Bhavan on Wednesday, Andhra Pradesh Go

Ensure drinking water supply to all by 2024: Andhra Guv

Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the South Africa Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) marched to the Kempton Park police station on Wednesday to lay criminal charges against current and former executives and board members of South African Airways (SAA) and its subsidiary SAA Technical (SAAT).In the view of the two unions, this is due to the board members and executives during 

SAA unions lay criminal charges against board members, executives

Lahore [Pakistan], December 2 (ANI): Pakistan's Lahore on Wednesday ranked as the third-most polluted city in the world, as per data by IQAir, a Swiss air technology company.
According to IQAir, at the time of filing this report, Lahore's Air Quality Index was recorded five times over the upper limit of a good range, reported Geo News.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency regards air quality as satisfactory i

Lahore ranked as third-most polluted city

Passengers arrive at Terminal 2 building of the Shanghai Pudong International Airport in east China's Shanghai, Nov. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Delta Air Lines has resumed nonstop flight services on its Shanghai-Seattle and Shanghai-Detroit routes starting Dec. 2, according to the airline.These flights will no longer need to stop in Seoul-Incheon, providing more convenience

Delta resumes nonstop flights from Shanghai to Seattle, Detroit

SAN FERNANDO CITY, Dec. 1 (PIA) - To listen to them, talk to and provide support. Don't discriminate.These are what persons living with HIV (PLHIVs) need from the people around them.This was shared by JM Flores, a PLHIV from Pangasinan, during the Department of Health in the Ilocos' (DOH-1) initiated webinar dubbed: "Ending the Syndemics, Stop HIV! End TB!" as part of the World AIDS Day observance on Dece

DOH-1, local health offices lead World AIDS Day celebration

By Poonam JoshiLondon [UK], December 2 (ANI): Fugitive diamond dealer Nirav Modi, who is wanted in India for allegedly defrauding Punjab National Bank (PNB) of an estimated USD 2 billion, was re-remanded on Tuesday by a judge at Westminster Magistrate Court in London.
Modi's final extradition hearings in a UK Court is scheduled to be held on January 7 and 8.
Modi, 49, appeared via videolink from Wandsworth Prison in south

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