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HHW Gaming: Activision Is Suing Company For Distributing ‘Call of Duty’ Cheats
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chesnot / Getty One company is learning that cheating in Call of Duty will probably cost a lot of money. Spotted on The Verge, Activision Publishing, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, slapped EngineOwning, a company best known for advertising cheats for Call of Duty, as well as other online shooters. The video game company also wants to shut down any software that allows players to cheat in games published by Activision. “By this lawsuit, Activision seeks to put a stop to unlawful conduct by an organization that is distributing and selling for profit numerous malicious software products designed to enable members of the public to gain unfair competitive advantages (i.e., to cheat) in the COD Games,” Activision states in its lawsuit.” These ongoing acti...
HHW Gaming: Sony Announces PlayStation VR2, Here Is What We Know So Far
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alex Wong / Getty Sony has been slowly dropping bread crumbs about its next VR headset and Monday night ((Jan.4) we got our best look yet at PlayStation’s next step into the world of virtual reality. At CES 2022, Sony dropped the bomb that PlayStation VR2 is coming and will work exclusively on PS5. The company gave us a tease in a very short segment, but a good tease about its latest gaming peripheral while not revealing pertinent information like price or a release date. But, it was still enough info to get PlayStation fans, especially fans of PlayStation VR, to get excited about what’s to come. Related Stories From what we know, like the PS5, PlayStation VR2 sounds like it will be very impressive based on the specs. It will feature a fantastic panel ref...
Nas Is Selling Streaming Royalty Rights to 2 of His Songs Through NFTs
Investment platform Royal has teamed up with Nas to release a portion of the streaming royalty rights to two of the rapper’s songs as NFTs. The platform’s first sale, beginning January 11, will allow the general public to own “limited digital assets” — Royal’s term for its NFTs — for his songs “Ultra Black” off of the Grammy Award winning-album King’s Disease, and “Rare” a single from 2022 Grammy Award-nominated King’s Disease II. A limited number of tokens will be released for each song ranging in tiers representing different royalty ownership — 1,110 total tokens for “Rare” and 760 for “Ultra Black.” Each tier is based on the rights percentage for each NFT and prices range from $50 USD to about $10,000 USD. “Having Nas be the first artist to sell royalty rights through Royal is an i...
Kanye West to Headline Coachella 2022, Considering Sunday Service
Kanye West — who now goes by Ye — has been tapped to headline Sunday night at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and might also stage a second Sunday Service performance a source tells Billboard. Billie Eilish is also in talks to headline the event — likely Friday — sources confirms. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The headliner news comes after a chaotic 48 hours for festival organizer Goldenvoice as it moves artists in and out of the event’s three headliner slots, originally set for the 2020 iteration that was postponed several times during the pandemic. Billboard has confirmed that previous headliners Travis Scott and Rage Against the Machine will no longer headline the 2022 edition of the festival after originally bei...
Joyce Ostin, Daughter-in-Law of Music Exec Mo Ostin, Dies at 64
Joyce Ostin, a photographer and daughter-in-law of legendary music executive Mo Ostin, died Dec. 29 at her Pacific Palisades home after a battle with cancer, her family announced. She was 64. Ostin spent her first years raising her three daughters while battling breast cancer, and in 2001, she published Hollywood Moms, a best-selling coffee-table book with a foreword by Carrie Fisher that featured photographs of Goldie Hawn and daughter Kate Hudson; Dyan Cannon and daughter Jennifer Grant; Jennifer Lopez and her mom, Guadalupe; and Rosie O’Donnell and her daughter, Chelsea. In 2007 came Hollywood Dads, with an introduction by Paul Reiser and photos of Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Willis and other fathers with their kids. Explore See latest videos, char...
2022 RodeoHouston Sets Performer Lineup
This year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s 2022 entertainer lineup is star-packed, with performers from a range of genres, including country, Contemporary Christian, EDM, R&B, pop and more. The multi-week event runs from Feb. 28-March 20 at NRG Stadium. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Dierks Bentley, Kane Brown, Luke Bryan, for King & Country, Sam Hunt, Cody Johnson, Journey, Khalid, Marshmello, Tim McGraw, Maren Morris, Brad Paisley, Chris Stapleton, Gwen Stefani, George Strait, Keith Urban and more are among those announced as performers for this year’s RodeoHouston. Strait, who will conclude this years RodeoHouston with a show on March 20, will welcome Ashley McBryde as a special guest. The weekday rodeos will begin at 6:45 p.m. ...
John Mayer Tests Positive to COVID-19
John Mayer has tested positive to the novel coronavirus, forcing him to miss his planned appearance with Dead & Company at Playing in the Sand festival. Mayer returned a positive test just prior to leaving for Mexico, where the event is due to take place this weekend and next. The show will go on. “We came down here to have fun. Unfortunately some of our brothers cannot make it but fun is what we’re going to have,” comments Dead & Company’s Bobby Weir in a statement. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In these “unprecedented times fans should expect many rare and different tunes,” the message continues. Today, just prior to leaving for Mexico, per his physician, @JohnMayer tested positive for COVID-19 and will be unable to perform at the u...
NBA YoungBoy Drops New Track “Fish Scale,” Announces Upcoming Mixtape
YoungBoy Never Broke Again is kicking off his 2022 with the brand new track, “Fish Scale.” The three-minute offering is released with an accompanying music video and drops shortly after From the Bayou, his collaborative effort with Birdman. NBA YoungBoy also announced via the video’s caption box that he will be releasing his “new tape [in] less than two weeks.” A title, tracklist, features list and other info regarding the project is yet to be confirmed. In December 2021, YoungBoy told DJ Akademiks during a Clubhouse conversation that he wanted to quit making music. “I lost love for music and it brings too many problems,” NBA YoungBoy admitted. “I been waiting to stop making music for about one and a half years.” However, he ended up dropping From the Bayou about a week later. Watch NBA Yo...
Watch St. Vincent Perform “…At the Holiday Party” on Corden
St. Vincent swung by The Late Late Show With James Corden last night to perform her Daddy’s Home cut “…At the Holiday Party” behind a cocktail bar. She also discussed her family holiday traditions (including a full-family rendition of a Clark-themed Christmas Carol musical), as well as a cold phone call she received from Paul McCartney after contributing a remix to McCartney III Imagined. Check out the video below. St. Vincent released Daddy’s Home in May. In July, she performed many of the tracks live for the first time at her Down and Out Downtown livestream. In September, she collaborated with Carrie Brownstein on a film (and its soundtrack) called The Nowhere Inn. Check out “St. Vincent’s Mockumentary The Nowhere Inn Is Too Self-Conscious for Its Own Good” on the Pitch. Content This co...
Vein.fm (fka Vein) Announce New Album, Share New Song “The Killing Womb”: Listen
Vein.fm, the Boston metalcore group formerly known as Vein, have announced a new album. It’s titled This World Is Going to Ruin You and it’s due out March 4 via Closed Casket Activities. The band also shared lead single “The Killing Womb” along with a music video directed by Max Moore. Check it out below. This World Is Going to Ruin You spans 12 tracks in total. The LP was produced by Will Putney and features guest appearances from Thursday’s Geoff Rickly, Jeromes Dream’s Jeff Smith, and BONES. Vein.fm’s debut album, Errorzone, came out four years ago. See where it landed on Pitchfork’s list “The Best Metal Albums of 2018.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. The World Is Going to Ruin You: 01 Welcome Home02 The Killing Womb03 Versus Wyoming04 Fear in No...
HHW Gaming: Ubisoft+ Coming To Xbox & ‘Rainbow Six Extraction’ Launching On Game Pass
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ubisoft / Rainbow Six Extraction If you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, today was a good day for you. Wednesday (Jan.5), Ubisoft announced that its subscription service, Ubisoft+, will be coming to Xbox consoles bringing its library of more than 100 games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and more with it. Initially enjoyed by PC owners, now Xbox console owners can get in on the fun for a single monthly price, granting them access to games, DLC on launch day, plus rewards like cosmetics, boosters, and other in-game items. But, that’s not all. The latest installment in the famed Rainbow Six game franchise, Extraction, was announced as a day-one release for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. [embedded content] Related Stories “By making Rain...
The Grammy Awards Postponed Indefinitely
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: CBS Photo Archive / Getty The surge of the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus continues to infiltrate all facets of society. The latest to take an L is the music recording industry as the annual Grammy Awards have been postponed. Variety reports that a rep for the Grammys has confirmed that the annual ceremony that honors the best of the music business has been postponed because of COVID-related considerations. There is no new date as of yet. The 2022 Grammys were scheduled to go down on Monday, January 31 at the Crypto.com Arena, formerly the Staples Center, in Los Angeles. However, with the omicron variant spreading like wildfire, and the fact that it was supposed to be live with an audience in attendance, the entire shindig was getting the side-eye,...
