Mobile Games Hotspot: 'PUBG' Tournament to be Held Without Live Audience Amid Coronavirus Concerns

By Anita Bennett

Mobile Games Hotspot is a curated weekly roundup of the top stories in gaming on-the-go. Plague Inc., a game with a main goalof infecting and eliminating a majority of the world population through the spread of a virus, has introduced a new mode focused on curing diseases and stopping a worldwide pandemic.

Like the rest of the country, I’m starting to panic about coronavirus and the way it’s taking over our lives. For anyone like me who works for themselves, you have my full admiration and support right now.

Mobile Games Hotspot is a curated weekly roundup of the top stories in gaming on-the-go. As with a vast majority of the gaming industry, the coronavirus pandemic continues to thwart plans and conventions, including many of the events set for the months of March and April in Pokemon Go.

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By Denise Petski

“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will not be taping in front of a live studio audience, starting on Monday, as yet another television show grapples with how to continue production while the novel coronavirus spreads through the U.S.

TV’s late-night laughs will continue. But they will have to do so without live audiences to make them.

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