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‘MLB The Show 22’ Will Release on Nintendo Switch
After launching from San Diego Studio on Xbox last year, 2022’s installment on MLB The Show will include an expansion to Nintendo Switch. This year’s installment will include new features and more difficulty options. Nintendo Switch players can also face off against Xbox and PlayStation owners in the baseball game’s cross-platform multiplayer mode. Via cross-platform integration, players can earn and save any content across platforms and generations and transfer it to a different console. Los Angeles Angels player Shohei Ohtani, who has been nicknamed “Shotime,” is the cover star for MLB The Show 22. Last season, Ohtani hit 46 home runs and had 100 RBI’s and 26 base steals. In the announcement, Ramone Rusell, Head of Product Development Communications at San Diego Studio, credited Ohtani w...
Sony Acquires Original ‘Halo’ Developer Bungie
Sony will acquire Bungie, the developer behind Destiny and the original creator of Halo, in a deal worth $3.6 billion USD. Bungie will become the latest addition to the Sony Interactive Entertainment team, which also includes Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games, Sucker Punch Productions, Bluepoint Games and several other studios. Bungie will continue to lead its franchises and develop content for various platforms outside of its deal with Sony’s PlayStation, while also pursuing multi-media entertainment opportunities outside of gaming. “We will continue to independently publish and creatively develop our games,” CEO Pete Parsons wrote in a blog post. “We will continue to drive one, unified Bungie community. Our games will continue to be where our community is, wherever ...
Rich DietZ Set the Tone for Huge 2022 With Must-Listen House Banger, “Work Song”
After closing the book on a breakthrough 2021, Rich DietZ have kicked off the year with a brand new single called “Work Song.” In typical Rich DietZ fashion, the track is a house music stroke of genius. Arriving ahead of the spring season, “Work Song” isn’t a breezy poolside track, but a banger designed to induce noodle-flailing pool riots. Cover art for Rich DietZ’s new single, “Work Song.” One of the more coveted unreleased tunes from their repertoire, “Work Song” interlaces hip-hop-inspired samples in its arrangement, which beautifully blends elements of tech and G-House. Rich DietZ first debuted the single last year at EDC Week in Las Vegas, where they dropped it during a rip-roaring performance at Élia Beach Club cl...
Bad Bunny Adds New Dates to 2022 “World’s Hottest Tour”
Bad Bunny’s “World’s Hottest Tour” is living up to its name. Due to “overwhelming demand” for tickets, the Puerto Rican rapper and singer has announced additional stadium shows in six cities: Miami, New York, Houston, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The new dates are as follows: August 13th at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium; August 28th at New York’s Yankee Stadium; September 2nd at Houston’s Minute Maid Park; September 18th at San Diego’s PETCO Park; September 24th at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium; and October 1st at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. See the updated tour itinerary below (new dates are in bold). Pre-sale tickets for the newly announced dates will be available starting Wednesday, February 2nd at 12:00 p.m. local time via Ticketmaster (using pre-sale code CALIENTE). A public on-sa...
Influencers Try to Cancel Leatherface in Trailer for Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Watch
Threatening to “cancel” Leatherface hardly seems like a wise move, but that’s one influencer’s approach when facing off against the iconic serial killer in Netflix’s new trailer for Texas Chainsaw Massacre. “Try anything and you’re canceled, bro,” the influencer says to Leatherface, while recording the short-lived showdown on his phone. Undeterred, the mass murderer revs up his signature chainsaw and takes out each person on the party bus one by one. The 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre marks the direct sequel to the original 1974 horror classic and centers around the idea of young people revitalizing a ghost town in Texas. Naturally, bratty teens along for the ride aren’t happy about the idea in the first place, and their hesitance is proven to be right when a certain chainsaw-wielding m...
Michael Ealy on The Woman in the House, The Devil You Know, and Singing Taylor Swift
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Michael Ealy sits down with Kyle Meredith to talk about The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window, the new satirical limited series on Netflix that also stars Kristen Bell. Related Video The actor takes us through the process of making a satire of psychological thrillers and the challenge of playing his role in a sincere way, as well as the musical preferences of his character, whom he describes as ”an NPR guy” who would be prone to singing Katy Perry and Taylor Swift with his kids. Advertisement Ealy also talks about his upcoming role in The Devil You Know, which also finds him executive producing. ...
The New York Times Buys Wordle for $_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Wordle, the viral word game which offers players six chances to puzzle out a five-letter word, has been purchased by The New York Times to bolster their ever-expanding collection of brain-teasing games. The New York Times Company left a blank space in place of the actual price, though they did say the purchase involved a number “in the low seven figures.” The invention of Brooklyn engineer Josh Wardle, Wordle (yup, it’s a pun) rolled out last October. It had less than 100 users per day on November 1st, but by the middle of the month that number had ballooned to over 300,000. Advertisement Related Video Today it’s played by millions, with many choosing to post their results online using colored boxes to indicate the progression of their guesses — black or grey for misses, yel...
Kanye West Announces He Currently Has No Plans To “Do a F*cking NFT”
The artist formerly known as Kanye West publicly declared that he currently does not have any interest on creating an NFT. Taking to Instagram to make the announcement, Ye shared a handwritten note stating that his “focus is on building real products in the real world,” which includes real food, clothes and shelter. “STOP ASKING ME TO DO NFT’s I’M NOT FINNA CO-SIGN,” he wrote in the caption. “FOR NOW I’M NOT ON THAT WAVE I MAKE MUSIC AND PRODUCTS IN THE REAL WORLD.” West is currently in the process of creating and releasing DONDA 2, which is set to drop on February 22. Producer Digital Nas recently revealed Ye’s “directives” for the new album: “If it cannot be played at a funeral, childbirth, graduation, a wedding, it will not be on our record.” He added, “We learned a lot from Donda ...
Nirvana Hits Back at Spencer Elden (Again) in Nevermind Cover Lawsuit: ‘This Case Must End’
Nirvana has filed another motion to dismiss in their ongoing legal dispute with Spencer Elden, who is accusing them of sexually exploitive imagery on the Nevermind cover. In the filing obtained by SPIN, Nirvana’s counsel makes their stance clear: “This case must end.” Nirvana is asking the court “for an order dismissing this action, with prejudice” and, once again, “on the ground that it is barred by the statute of limitations.” Based on Elden’s allegations, Nirvana says that “no amendment is possible to salvage the claim.” Continuing, the motion says “In his ever-shrinking pleading, Elden has now dismissed all but one of the myriad state- and federal-law claims he previously attempted to charge against Defendants.” It also said that the 10-year statute doesn’t cover when Elden was a minor...
Petition Calling For Travis Scott To Be Reinstated As Coachella Headliner Removed For “Fraudulent Activity”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rick Kern / Getty Nice try, but this petition calling for Travis Scott to be allowed to touch the Coachella stage this year turned out to be a pure jig. Per Buzzfeed News, a fan-made Change.org petition was removed by the website after learning that 60,000 of the signatures it acquired were fugazi. On January 26, multiple outlets reported on the petition garnering attention before the website took action after noticing the number of signatures declined overnight from over 70,000 to barely reaching 5,000 on January 27. Related Stories Scott’s fans, the “ragers,” also noticed the drop, one of them pondered in the comment section under the petition, “Why the signs keep going down wtf going on here @change.org.” The website didn’t respond to the fan but respo...
HHW Gaming: Sony Is Buying ‘Destiny’ Developer & Original ‘Halo’ Creator Bungie, The Gaming World Reacts
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bungie / Destiny 2 Another day, another massive acquisition in the world of video games. Following Take-Two Interactive’s purchase of mobile gaming giant Zynga and Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Sony said it too could acquire a popular game studio. Monday (Jan.31), Destiny developer and original Halo creator Bungie announced that Sony is purchasing it for $3.6 billion. In a blog post, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons quickly answered the burning question stating that it will “continue to independently publish and creatively develop our games.” “In SIE, we have found a partner who unconditionally supports us in all we are and who wants to accelerate our vision to create generation-spanning entertainment, all while preserving the creative inde...
Joe Rogan Comments On Artists Ditching Spotify, Apologizes To DSP
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: LIONEL BONAVENTURE / Getty Joe Rogan attracts plenty of attention not only due to the massive popularity of his podcast but also his assumed stances against the handling of COVID-19 in the mainstream. However, his presence or Spotify has been somewhat disruptive to the business and Rogan took time to apologize to the DSP as a result. Rogan, who hosts the popular The Joe Rogan Experience, entered into an exclusive $100 million deal with the audio streaming service as part of its slate of original podcast programming. Rogan built an audience based on candid conversations and the occasional controversial guests, and part of that is why singer Neil Young opted to remove his entire catalog from Spotify. Related Stories Young says his decision to take his music...
