# Gaming
Fireworks at the Candidates as Nepo and Fabi Fight for First
The Candidates, the tournament which pits the strongest chess players in the world against one another to find the challenger for the world champion, has completed six rounds. Grandmasters Ian Nepomniachtchi and Fabiano Caruana have not relinquished the top two spots since the first round, though the other six candidates have shuffled position since then.
American Caruana Aims for Carlsen as Ding Stumbles at FIDE Candidates
The most dominant world champion since Bobby Fischer offered his prediction as to who would win the 2022 Candidates prior to the start of the double round robin event. Kasparov named Ding Liren as his very educated guess for who would challenge Carlsen for the world championship.
Garry Kasparov Predicts Who Will Win Candidates
The strongest chess players in the world will soon gather in Madrid, Spain to battle it out to see who will challenge World Champion Magnus Carlsen. As in 1975, the Candidates has heightened stakes in 2022. In ‘75, Grandmaster Bobby Fischer ultimately decided not to defend his world championship. The result was that the title fell to the winner of the Candidates, Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov.
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(VIDEO) Inside San Francisco's Antique Arcade: Musée Mécanique
With over 300 coin operated arcade machines, Musée Mécanique is one of the world's largest privately owned collections of it's kind. Located in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf this museum attracts over 100,000 visitors every year.
Casual Games for our Strange Pandemic Life
2020 Game Screenshot(mine) For game version of all the wild things we've experienced in pandemic life, try the browser runner game 2020 Game. Well, it’s mostly a runner, but as the year gets stranger, there are more platformer challenges, more objects to dodge and everything just gets harder and harder, from all directions.
Activision Blizzard operation is “moving fast”, Brad Smith says.
The President of Microsoft, Brad Smith, has claimed in Belgium that the company’s proposed acquisition of ATVI is going relatively quickly. The deal was announced in January that Microsoft intends to acquire Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal, this is the biggest operation in the modern gaming industry by distance, surpassing the $7 billion operation cost by Bethesda by a lot, and Microsoft said at the time that it hopes to complete the deal in the first half of 2023.
FIFA To Launch Its Own Football Game
After the separation from Electronic Arts, FIFA is working on its games and announcing a World Cup expansion for EA's 23 games in advance. Electronic Arts have just announced that its football series will be called EA Sports FC from 2023 - and no longer FIFA. This very organization has announced that it is working on several of its projects.
The Raleigh resident who became a billionaire this year
In March, I wrote an article on the three billionaires who live in North Carolina. Last week, however, a fourth person joined them. When Forbes released their annual list of billionaires, a new name was on the list.
Why I prefer Arcade Games
Teenagers are getting more addicted to arcade games and they are spending a lot of time playing these games. Arcade games have been around for decades but their popularity has increased over the years. These games were created with simple rules, graphics, and sound effects. The players can choose from different options which include shooting, racing, puzzle-solving, and many other things. There is no need to buy any additional equipment or software to play these games. All you need is your mobile phone and you will be ready to play.
YouTube streamer says sorry for shouting at woman to "go do your husband's dishes"
A gaming YouTuber who has 7 million followers recently apologized after a video of him shouting at a woman playing the same game and using expletives surfaced on social media. Darren Watkins has said that he is now a different person and that he has changed since that video was filmed.
Amazon PS5 Restock Today
There is a craze surrounding the Sony PlayStation 5 console and Xbox Series X. These products are a challenge to find. The resale values were at peak levels in 2021. Some claims suggest a PS5 got resold for about $1,000 on Black Friday weekend. That is a sizable amount of money.
Minecraft gamers can now earn Trilium from the Alien Worlds metaverse
The bridge will open the door to play-to-earn gaming and the metaverse for Minecraft gamers. Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history engaging more than 170 million players, will be able to earn Trilium, the native cryptocurrency in the Alien Worlds metaverse. Alien Worlds is one of the largest play to earn (P2E) blockchain games and NFT metaverse.
Independent artist lands a feature on NBA2k
Independent artist, Tevin Sumblin, known by the name E.R.A has heightened his music career with a feature on the 2022 NBA basketball video game. If you have already or plan on purchasing NBA2k22, you will have the privilege of hearing the Virginia native artist's single, "The Come Up."
A Look Into The Strange Hoards Of Gamers
Skulls, cheese, potatoes, potions, troll fat?! You may be asking yourself what do any of these things have in common, and the answer is simple. They are just a few of the things you may find sitting around in what I like to call "The gamer hoard." In a world that gave us such games as The Sims and Animal Crossing, where decorating is key to your character's success, it's no wonder that many have expanded their skills to include games that, in factual sense, are not meant for such things. Skyrim and Fallout specifically have seemed to develop a sub-culture of home decorators or collectors of random, seemingly useless objects that, as we do in real life, they have developed an unexplainable attachment for.