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China is further limiting video game play time for minors

Efforts to curb gaming addiction in the country reach extreme measures.

China now forbids minors from playing video games for more than an hour on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, Forbes reported Monday. Meaning anyone under 18 years old can only play for three hours a week. 

These new rules are even tighter than the previous ones, which allowed minors to play video games for a total of 1.5 hours per day. All of this is part of an ongoing effort by China to curb video game addiction in minors, and video game companies like Tencent have to abide by them. 

“Minors will be restricted at the account level using the existing real name registration and anti-addiction system,” Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst at Niko Partners, said on Twitter. “For reference, there are around 110 million minors in China that play video games today.”

Ahmad also claims that roughly 2.6 percent of Tencent’s players are younger than 16 years old, so these rules likely won’t affect the actual gaming companies too much. Even though that’s still a lot of people under heavy restrictions.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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Saints scaling back Superdome attendance limits due to COVID-19

The New Orleans Saints have been forced to scale back attendance limits at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome due to a surge in COVID-19 numbers.

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A continued surge in positive coronavirus cases has forced the New Orleans Saints to backtrack on their attendance limits for home games at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, with the head of the New Orleans Health Department, Dr. Jennifer Avegno, recommending that the venue be limited to 4% of its total capacity — totaling no more than 3,000 fans. The neighboring New Orleans Pelicans are being held to the same standard, with an audience of just 750 expected for their Dec. 27 home opener at the Smoothie King Center.

It’s a step back from the Saints’ last home game, which hosted 6,000 spectators for Nov. 22’s matchup with the Atlanta Falcons. The team was working with a phased plan expanding attendance figures up to 15,000 for upcoming kickoffs on Dec. 20 (against the Kansas City Chiefs) and Dec. 25 (versus the Minnesota Vikings), but at this point they’ll be scaling back as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to expand nationally.

The Saints are hopeful that they will be allowed to welcome larger numbers into the Superdome for January’s playoffs, but that remains to be seen. It’s just another sacrifice we’ll have to make so long as the positive test rate remains too high.

Other NFL teams are giving up significantly more. The San Francisco 49ers had to move operations to Arizona just to continue working, practicing, and playing games as local officials in the Bay Area take greater action against the spread of infections. While vaccinations are on the horizon, it doesn’t appear that the 2020 season will resume normalcy before the pandemic can be better controlled.

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Anglers nabbed with 173 fish over the limit; charges pending

Two anglers in Texas face multiple charges and civil restitution after being caught with 173 crappie over the legal possession limit.

Two anglers in Texas face multiple charges and civil restitution after being caught with 173 crappie over the legal possession limit.

Texas Game Wardens in Upshur County, acting on a late-November tip pertaining to a giant pile of fish that had been cleaned and dumped at Lake O’ the Pines, found two men in possession of the gross over-limit.

Wardens seized 350 crappie fillets and donated the fish to “multiple families around the area,” according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

Crappie, in the sunfish family, are popular among recreational anglers in Texas. The daily catch and possession limit is 25 fish per person.

–Image showing confiscated crappie fillets is courtesy of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department