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Thursday, December 4, 2025
TopicVideo games

Topic: video games

You can still socialise with friends during Covid, just plot to kill them online

From celebrity gamers live streaming it, to US politicians using it to encourage voting, Among Us is the new videogame taking the Covid-era by storm.

Dodge the virus, snap up sanitisers — here’s Covid game ‘Coroboi’ by a 13-year-old Manipuri

Ningthoujam Baldeep Singh developed ‘Coroboi’ when his school shut down on account of the Covid pandemic and he was left with a lot of free time.

Gaming skills come handy during Covid, grocery runs are like playing Bomber Man or Super Mario

Not everyone maintains six-feet of distance, so you must duck, dodge, dive, jump and snake your way out of pandemic-unfriendly proximity from other shoppers.

Video gamers have the last laugh as e-sports industry booms during Covid-19 lockdown

Social distancing enforced by coronavirus will increase the market value of the e-sports industry which is already estimated to touch $2 billion by the end of 2021.

AAP as Avengers & ‘Thanos’ Modi — Kejriwal party gives Delhi poll campaign pop-culture spin

From video game Mario to Avengers, AAP is tapping several pop-culture mainstays for voters who no longer ‘want to be given gyan’.

Indian cities are banning PUBG over fears the game is creating ‘psychopaths’

PUBG has become the most popular smartphone game in the world but nowhere has resistance to it been quite like in India.

PUBG players arrested: Overreaction by police or is addiction a public concern?

The Gujarat police arrested several PUBG lovers, many of them students, for playing the banned video game.

Google’s ‘Project Stream’ could be the Netflix of video games

Google's video game service, which launches Tuesday, is designed to allow users to play on a web browser or TV without a PlayStation and Xbox.

Modi dominates social media, here are four gaming apps starring him

Modi’s likeness and cartoons appear in a host of apps, ranging from gaming apps, selfie apps to those for WhatsApp.

On Camera

My grandmother saved her children in Bhopal gas tragedy—and sacrificed her own life

‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.