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HHW Gaming: Black Panther FINALLY Coming To ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Later This Year
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Square Enix / Marvel’s Avengers Square Enix/Crystal Dynamics’ Marvel’s Avengers is slowly taking shape. Could the King of Wakanda’s arrival finally make it the game fans hoped it would be at launch? Black people always have to step up to save things. It looks like that could also apply to the video game world. When Marvel’s Avengers was first fully announced, reactions for the blockbuster game were mixed. On the one hand, fans of the Marvel franchise were excited they were finally getting an original game featuring their favorite superheroes but were extremely disappointed the game did not use the actors from the Marvel Studios films. An issue they have fixed with the announcement of new skins coming soon. Gamers, including us, held onto hope. After playi...
HHW Gaming: These 10 Games Will Be Free 99 For PlayStation Owners As Part of Sony’s ‘Play At Home’ Initiative
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chesnot / Getty PlayStation owners rejoice. Sony is blessing you in the new year with some free games to enjoy safely at home. On Wednesday (Mar.17), the company announced that PlayStation owners would get the chance to play several games for free 99. As part of Sony’s “Play At Home” initiative, it launched back in 2020 to encourage people, specifically gamers, to stay home and be safe at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning next month Horizon Zero Dawn and nine other excellent indie titles will be available to PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5 console owners. Starting April 19, at 8 p.m. PDT, Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition will be available for free until 8 p.m. on May 14. It follows the release of Insomniac Games hit platformer Ratchet & ...
HHW Gaming: Tiger Woods Returns To The Golf Course, Well Sort Of, Signs Long-Term Exclusive Deal With 2K
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Augusta National / Getty It’s going to be a while till will see Tiger Woods on a physical golf course again, BUT, thanks to a new deal, the beloved golfer will be swinging his golf clubs again… virtually. 2K announced on Tuesday (Mar.15) that it sunk a hole-in-one by inking a long-term exclusive partnership with Tiger Woods, one of the world’s most celebrated golfers. The partnership includes his name and likeness’s rights to appear exclusively in the PGA TOUR 2K franchise and any other golf games published by 2K. The deal marks the first time Woods will appear in a video game since parting ways with EA Sports in 2013. The 15-time champion was the face of EA’s PGA Tour video game franchise for 15 years before being replaced by Rory McIlroy. Speaking on th...
US state bans transgender athletes from women’s sports
Mississippi became the first US state on Thursday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams, a move denounced as discriminatory by LGBTQ groups and likely to face legal challenges. Governor Tate Reeves said the “Mississippi Fairness Act” would “ensure young girls are not forced to compete against biological males.” The bill requires public schools in the conservative southern state to designate sports teams based on biological sex as for “Males,” “Females” or “Coed.” “Athletic teams or sports designated for ‘females,’ ‘women,’ or ‘girls,’ shall not be open to students of the male sex,” it states. Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a group which defends LGBTQ rights, described the bill as “discriminatory anti-transgender legislation” and said it would be challeng...
HHW Gaming: ‘TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge’ Hopes To Be Perfect Love Letter To Fans of The Iconic Cartoon Franchise
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dotemu / Tribute Games Back in the day, we used to go to these places called arcades to play video games with other people. Crazy right? One game that gobbled up quarters was Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Video Game developer and publisher Dotemu want to restore the feeling with a new TMNT video game. In what many are calling a pleasant surprise, Dotemu (Streets of Rage 4) dropped the first trailer for its new beat-em-up sidescrolling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ game, Shredder’s Revenge which looks to be a blast from the past. The game, which is also co-developed by Tribute Games (Panzer Paladin), takes some cues from the SNES classic Turtles In Time and combines it with the popular arcade game for a brand new adventure still heavy on nostalgia...
HHW Gaming: A Few Helpful Tips To Aid You On Your Mission To Buy To A PS5 or Xbox Series X
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Future Publishing / Getty It’s been roughly 5 months since the arrival of both the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and while the systems are different spec-wise, they both share one similar aspect, they are hard to find. If you asked anyone what’s the most difficult thing to purchase right now, without a doubt, the PS5, Xbox Series X, and a pair of Jordans would be on everyone’s lists. Before the launch of each next-gen console, both Microsoft and Sony warned gamers that availability would be an issue due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and they were not lying on that front. What gamers didn’t account for is the bots scooping the consoles up before they can add either one of them to their carts and swiftly dropping them on the online marketplaces like eBay or StockX. Re...
Explore a Cyberpunk Club in the New Video Game “Isolationist Nightclub Simulator”
Coming this week from the multi-talented digital artist and sound designer, Edwin Montgomery, is a new video game called Isolationist Nightclub Simulator. For years, he’s been celebrated by his peers in the industry and his work has been included in games involving major franchises like Wasteland, Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer 40,000, and Game of Thrones, among others. Now, Montgomery is taking on the world of electronic music with his new surreal adventure. Alongside the listing for the game on Steam, a brief description on what players can expect was shared. In a dark and familiar future, a mysterious plague has all but shut down life on earth’s surface. From the safety of your bunker, enter this vivid simulation and transport yourself to a futuristic,...
HHW Gaming: Upgraded Nintendo Switch Model With 7-Inch Samsung OLED Display Coming This Year: Report
Source: SOPA Images / Getty It’s been long-rumored that Nintendo would be dropping a new Nintendo Switch model. This latest report is the closest thing to a confirmation of said model we have gotten yet. Bloomberg reports Nintendo will be dropping an upgraded Switch model this year with an OLED screen. According to the report, Samsung Display will be supplying the 7-inch 720p rigid OLED panel, and it will go into mass production sometime in June. The current Nintendo Switch model has a 6.2-inch 720p LCD panel, while the Nintendo Switch Lite sports a 5.5-inch 720p LCD. One of the biggest complaints about the current Nintendo Switch model is that it has a hard time running many games at a native resolution while being used in handheld mode. Bloomberg states in its report that the ...
Not for Noobs: Here are Kaskade’s Top 5 Gaming Tracks
After Monstercat‘s massive acquisition of Silk Music, the Monstercat Silk label is already off to a stellar start. Now, dance music megastar Kaskade is gearing up for his debut Monstercat Silk release, which is shaping up to be one of 2021’s best EPs. Kaskade’s Reset EP will be out tomorrow, March 5th, and will consist of four tracks that are also featured in the hit video game Rocket League‘s current season, which moonlights as an homage to electronic dance music. The title of the EP, as well as its opening track, “Flip Reset,” is a clever nod to an in-game Rocket League movement mechanic that pros should be well-versed in. Reset will include the yet-to-be released “Miles To Go,” a collaboration with synth-pop star ...
HHW Gaming: ‘NBA 2K21’ Coming To Xbox Game Pass Thursday
Source: Visual Concepts / NBA 2K21 Next-Gen Right on time for NBA All-Star Fanless Weekend, Xbox Game Pass owners are getting a pretty dope treat. Wednesday (Mar.3), 2K announced that NBA 2K21 would be available via Xbox Game Pass starting Thursday (Mar.4). The announcement comes as the NBA is getting ready for the annual celebration of its stars, NBA All-Star Weekend in Atlanta which will be running very differently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Owners of either Xbox One or next-gen consoles Xbox Series S|X will be able to enjoy the full game, whether it’s the current-gen or the graphically enhanced version of the no.1 selling basketball video game franchise. Players who still haven’t bought NBA 2K21 for whatever reason will now be able to try out the game’s many modes like MyCAREER, The ...
HHW Gaming: Fashion Model Winnie Harlow Announced As Playable Character In ‘FIFA 21’s VOLTA FOOTBALL Mode
Source: EA / FIFA 21 She’s in the game, no literally she is. EA SPORTS announced on Friday (Feb.26) that Jamaican- Canadian fashion model Winnie Harlow will be the latest celebrity FIFA 21 players can use in VOLTA FOOTBALL. Starting today, and for a limited time, Harlow will be available for use in the VOLTA FOOTBALL mode as part of FIFA 21’s Groundbreakers. To play with the stunning model, players will have to beat her first before she can be recruited to your squad. Don’t let her beauty fool you. Harlow has a deep love for football, aka soccer, and that’s what brought her to EA SPORTS so the team can develop her so she can be included in the VOLTA FOOTBALL game mode. We can see the bombshell pulling off some nifty moves with the soccer ball in the very brief announcement trailer while lo...
HHW Gaming: Soulja Boy Reportedly Releasing Another Video Game Console
Source: Santiago Felipe / Getty Soulja Boy is once again trying to jump into the video game console market. Big Draco is reportedly pushing video game consoles, well, at least taking another stab at it. Game Informer is reporting that Soulja Boy is about to start cranking out a new console after selling janky consoles (overpriced emulators) back in 2019 that landed him in hot water, forcing him to “boss up” due to him ripping off the design for PlayStation’s now-defunct handheld, the PS Vita, and Xbox One S console and removing them from his Souljawatch website. Twitter handle @Souljagame, which Soulja Boy follows, tweeted on Saturday (Feb.13), “Building a new console from scratch, all new design. All new games. All new deals. Let’s make history,” and announced it was coming soon. Bu...
