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HHW Gaming: Beat Saber Rolls Out Exclusive Lizzo Music Pack For Meta Quest
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Beat Games / facebook Beat Saber, one of the top VR experiences in the Meta Quest universe, takes active gaming to a new level by way of its innovative Music Pack offerings. Joining the list of hitmakers is the all-around superstar Lizzo with Beat Saber’s new Lizzo Music Pack releasing Thursday (Oct. 6). Just in time for Lizzo’s The Special Tour in the U.S. and Europe, the Lizzo Music Pack from Beat Saber features nine of the talented vocalist and performer’s tracks. Beat Saber is adding a little flair to the exclusive list of tracks, featuring a brand new in-game custom layout that is inspired by Lizzo’s Special album. Related Stories Priced at $1.99 a song, or $11.99 for all nine tracks, the Lizzo Music Pack was designed strictly for her fan base, the L...
HHW Gaming: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Teaser Trailer Has Arrived, Twitter Hates Chris Pratt As Mario
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Illumination / The Super Mario Bros. Movie Finally, the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie arrived, and we heard Chris Pratt’s voice coming out of the iconic video game plumber’s mouth. Thursday, October 6, Nintendo and Illumination Studios used the first day of New York Comic-Con to unveil the trailer for the highly anticipated feature-length film based on the iconic Nintendo platform game. Jack Black, who voices King Bowser in the animated film, was on hand to reveal the trailer to the world. When The Super Mario Bros. Movie was first announced, the most significant question mark revolved around Chris Pratt and how he would sound as the fictional video game character. Source: Paul Morigi / Getty After watching the roughly 2-minute tease...
Death Row’s Blockchain Ambitions Take Shape As Snoop Dogg Manager Joins Gala Music Advisory Board
After buying Death Row Records and promising to make it an “NFT label” earlier this year, those metaverse ambitions are beginning to take shape through an exclusive partnership with Web3 platform Gala Music, where Snoop Dogg‘s manager for brand partnerships, Nick Adler, has joined the advisory board. The newly-created board is rounded out by Tupac’s former manager Leila Steinberg, as well as Grammy-nominated DJ and composer BT, and record label executive DJ EFN. The board will focus on bringing more superstar artists into Web3 and explore crossovers into film and gaming through Gala’s sister companies. “The creation of our advisory board is an exciting next step in Gala Music’s growth,” said Brandon Tatum, vp and global head of music business at Gala Music. “We look forward to leveraging t...
Phony Stark, AKA Elon Musk Finally Agrees To $44 Billion Twitter Purchase
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty Phony Stark, aka Elon Musk, wants to buy Twitter. No, for real this time. We think. Yahoo! Finance reports the Tesla chief finally agreed to purchase Twitter, and the social media company has also decided to honor Musk’s initial proposal. Per Yahoo! Finance: Twitter has agreed — once again — to Elon Musk’s proposal to buy the company for $54.20 a share. In a statement, Twitter confirmed it had received Musk’s letter that “the intention of the Company is to close the transaction at $54.20 per share.” Related Stories The agreement follows months of legal drama after Musk tried to back out of his original agreement to buy the company for $44 billion this spring. The two sides were set to go to trial later this month as Twitter...
HHW Gaming: ‘Dead Space’ Remake’s First Trailer Previews Survival Horror On A Next-Gen Level
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Motive Studio / Dead Space Remake Fans of survival horror video games, you will be eating at the end of 2022 and well into 2023. If you played the original Dead Space, released in 2008, you already experienced your nerves being destroyed; Motive Studio decided it’s time to take those scares and take them to the next-gen level. It’s been roughly 13 years since Dead Space 3, the final and very polarizing release in EA’s insanely popular survival horror franchise. Motive, the studio that blessed us with Star Wars: Squadrons and a forthcoming Iron Man video game, has been working hard on a remake of the original Dead Space video game. Related Stories After steadily giving fans glimpses of the game during its development, on Tuesday, October 4, Motive Studio p...
HHW Gaming: MTN DEW Launches Real Deal Challenge To Elevate & Highlight Black HBCU Gamers
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MTN DEW / Real Change Challenge MTN DEW is continuing its promise to help level the playing field, plus elevate and highlight Black gamers in the process. MTN Dew launched its Real Change Opportunity Fund in 2021, “a commitment from the brand to make tangible investment in Black entrepreneurs through a unique competition” and providing winners with the resources, programming, and funding to start their businesses. Related Stories In the second year of the initiative, the soft drink company is shifting the focus to the world of video games by supporting Black gamers and the HBCU Esports League owned by Cxmmunity with the creation of the MTN DEW Real Change Challenge. The goal is to “increase Black representation in esports and gaming” by supporting HBCU ga...
HHW Gaming: Google Stadia Will Be Put Out of Its Misery Jan. 18, Twitter Wonders What Took So Long?
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Drew Angerer / Getty It took long enough. Google Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming service, is being shut down. Google dropped the unsurprising news in a blog post announcing that people who, for whatever reason, are on the service can continue to play games on Google Stadia until January 18th, 2023. Anyone who purchased Google Stadia hardware, games, and add-ons through the Google Store will get a refund from Google, and the tech giant expects those refunds to be completed by mid-January. Stadia Pro subscriptions will not be eligible for a refund but will not be charged as the service begins its shutdown process. “A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia,” Stadia vice president and GM Phil Harrison said in a blog post. “...
HHW Gaming: Cardi B Reveals “Stupd Decisions” Led To Her Fumbling Multimillion-Dollar ‘Call of Duty’ Bag
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cardi B / Call of Duty Hip-Hop superstar Cardi B took a break from flaming Akbar V on Twitter to express some regrets about stupid decisions that have stopped a big bag for her. Remember when Cardi B rocked a one-of-a-kind Call of Duty necklace in her visual for “Hot Shit?” On Tuesday (Sept.27), Cardi B took to Twitter, revealing that due to legal issues stemming from a recent assault case, she fumbled a multimillion-dollar bag with Activision’s insanely popular first-person shooter. Source: Cardi B / Youtube Related Stories “My stupid decisions from the past caused me to miss out on money now,” the “Money” rapper tweeted. “I had a multimillion-dollar Call of Duty deal on the table that I couldn’t take because of court.” She also used to tweet to be a cau...
HHW Gaming: Netflix Is Launching Its Own Video Game Studio
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: INA FASSBENDER / Getty Netflix is very serious about stepping into the world of video games, so serious that the streaming service will launch its own gaming studio. Spotted on Polygon, the streaming giant is building its own video game studio from the ground up, joining the three other studios the movie streaming giant already owns. Per Polygon: Related Stories The new studio — the fourth games studio owned by Netflix — will be based in Helsinki, Finland, and will bolster Netflix’s efforts to bring “engaging original games” to their hundreds of millions of subscribers around the world, vice president of Netflix’s Game Studios said. So far, the company has focused on buying pre-existing studios to invest in game development. This is Netflix’s most s...
HHW Gaming: Skullcandy Gaming Is Back With A Trio of New Headsets
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Skullcandy / Skullcandy Gaming Skullcandy, the brand best known for its affordable premium headphones and earbuds, is reentering the video game space with a trio of new gaming headsets to relaunch Skullcandy Gaming. On Tuesday (Sep.27), the audio brand announced Skullcandy Gaming is back and, to mark its return to the world of video games, revealed three new headsets. Yes, they keep that same affordable energy while offering gamers many features to enhance their gaming experience. Per Skullcandy, each headset will be “offering compatibility across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and mobile, the all-new SLYR, SLYR Pro and PLYR were purpose-built for gamers, delivering rich, detailed sound, crystal-clear communications, and all-day comfort.” So let...
NFT Artist Diana Sinclair Signs With UTA Ahead of Christie’s Auction
Diana Sinclair, a leading visual artist in the Web3 space, has signed with UTA and is set to auction off nine of her NFTs at Christie’s beginning this week. Sinclair, 18, was recognized by Fortune as one of the top 50 most influential people in the NFT space alongside artists like Beeple. Her work focuses on themes like self-identity and social justice, and she is the curator behind Digital Diaspora, a Juneteenth exhibition that highlights the work of Black artists and creatives in the NFT community. Last year, Sinclair also collaborated with estate of Whitney Houston to create a digital video that comprised rare archival photos of the late singer that sold for roughly $1 million. And beginning on Wednesday, the artist will debut an NFT col...
HHW Gaming: ‘GTA 6’ Leaker Formally Charged By Police After Achieving 5-Star Wanted Level
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Last weekend video game Twitter was on one after a leaker dropped over 90 clips of unfinished GTA 6 footage. It turned out the leaker was a 17-year-old kid, and the teenager bit off more than he could chew, achieving a five-star wanted level, and now has been formally charged by police for his crimes. Per Games Radar, the unnamed minor has been charged with two counts of breach of bail conditions and two counts of computer misuse. The City of London Police shared the news in a statement: The City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on Thursday (September 22) on suspicion of hacking, as part of an investigation supported by the National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit. He has been charged in connection with t...
