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HHW Gaming: ‘NBA 2K22’ Courtside Report #7 Highlights The City & Reveals You Can Have A Rap Career
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Visual Concepts / NBA 2K22 We are just days away from the release of NBA 2K22. In the latest courtside report, we learn what we can expect from the PS5 and Xbox Series X’s The City and current-gen consoles, The Neighborhood. NBA 2K’s massive created player experience The City first introduced NBA 2K21 when the famed basketball video game franchise arrived on PS5 and Xbox Series X is back. Tuesday (Sep.7) Visual Concepts took revealed showcased gave us an in-depth look at The City and how it will work alongside MyCAREER and more. Source: Visual Concepts / NBA 2K22 MyCAREER, of course, is back and will feature an all-new narrative experience that will feature an original quest-driven narrative, cutscenes, and vibe that all takes place within The City, 2K ex...
HHW Tech Review: Turtle Beach’s First Attempt At A Video Game Controller, The Recon, Is A Success
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / Turtle Beach Recon Controller For Xbox Turtle Beach, a company, best known for its very reliable headsets, decided to try its hand at gaming controllers but is the company overstepping its boundaries, surprisingly not. Back in July, we first reported on the announcement of Turtle Beach’s Recon Controller for Xbox, and at the same time, we said it could potentially be a gamechanger based on the features it was boasting. Now, we had our chance to get our hands on the Recon Controller, and after spending some time playing some of our favorite games on Xbox Series X, we walked away very impressed. Where The Recon Controller Wins Source: Bernard Smalls / Turtle Beach Recon Controller For Xbox Unlike PS5’s DualSense controller that honestly tak...
HHW Gaming: Sony Announces September 9 PlayStation Showcase, Let The Speculation Begin
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / Getty Is Sony about to blow our minds next week? Outside of the announcement of Horizon: Forbidden West’s new release date, Sony has been relatively quiet. At the same time, Xbox and other gaming studios showed gamers what’s in the pipeline during last week’s virtual Gamescom event. That’s all going to change with Sony announcing it will be holding a virtual event on September 9. Ever since the company decided to pull itself out of E3, it has worked on its own schedule, relishing that any news regarding PlayStation 5 and its first-party games from PlayStation Studios are events in itself, and we won’t argue that based on the reception this announcement is getting. While not giving anything away, PlayStation announced on its official Tw...
The Deals: Primary Wave Acquires Gin Blossoms Catalog; WMG Licenses to Kuaishou
Warner Music Group has signed a licensing deal with China-based short-form video platform Kuaishou. Under the agreement, WMG will make its artists’ music available on all of Kuaishou’s overseas products, including the apps Kwai and SnackVideo. According to a release, Kuaishou boasts over one billion users worldwide, a milestone it hit in June. Outside of China, it has more than 180 million active users in territories including Latin America and MENA (Kwai) and South and Southeast Asia (SnackVideo). The platform encourages its “global community to share their activities, habits, and more with the core mission to ‘embrace all lifestyles.’” Oana Ruxandra, chief digital officer & executive vp of business development at WMG, said, “We’re excited to bring our diverse music ...
Wave and Riot Games Bring Virtual Metal Band Pentakill to Online Stage
“Riot Games is an ideal Wave collaborator as they have been an innovator in using music and emerging technologies to build and extend their worlds beyond games,” Wave COO Jarred Kennedy said. “Wave has sat at the intersection of music and gaming since its inception, and we’re excited to work with Riot to help shape the future of virtual performance.” The Los Angeles-based Wave has hosted more than 50 virtual concerts, called “Waves,” with artists like Dillon Francis, Alison Wonderland and Tinashe, where artists perform as avatars in imaginative virtual settings. The company names Warner Music Group an investor and China’s Tencent Music Entertainment a strategic partner. Meanwhile, Riot Games has been steadily making inroads in the music indust...
HHW Gaming: EA Finally Brings College Football Back… To ‘Madden NFL 22’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: EA Sports / Madden NFL 22 “Campus Legends” Superstar KO Event Rejoice fans of EA Sports classic college football games. This is the news you have been waiting for… well, sort of. Tuesday (Aug.31), EA Sports announced it’s celebrating the return of college football and at the same time throwing confetti following the release of Madden NFL 22 in a very interesting way. The game studio announced that it would be allowing Madden players to play with college football teams, 10 to be exact in the Superstar KO mode, in a limited event called Campus Legends. Starting Tuesday, players will be able to pick up sticks and play with Clemson, Miami, LSU, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Oregon, Nebraska, and Michigan State, plus those teams classic alumni players like Vi...
HHW Gaming: ‘NBA 2K22’s Shot Meter Is Getting Some Significant “Tweaks”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Visual Concepts / NBA 2K22 Visual Concepts and 2K delivered the first gameplay footage from NBA 2K22 on Monday (Aug.30), now it’s time to learn what improvements the NBA 2K community can expect from the game. Tuesday (Aug.31) Courtside Report No.5 dropped, and it focuses on the most integral part of the NBA 2K22… gameplay improvements. In the report, NBA 2K’s developers revealed to fans of the franchise they can expect upgrades to the defense and defensive AI, dribbling, post play, finishing at the rim, builds, badges, takeovers, and once again, the shooting, more specifically the shot meter. Here is the breakdown per 2K: Defense & Defensive AI: Completely rebuilt shot contest and blocking systems, a significant update to the fundamental defensive rot...
HHW Gaming: New First Look Photos From ‘Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City’ Have Arrived
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Screen Gems / Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City Resident Evil is slated to return to the big screen his year, barring any delays due to the pandemic, and now we get our first glimpse of the movie’s stars as the video game’s iconic characters. Monday (Aug.30) Screen Gems has unleashed first look photos from its upcoming film Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City. IGN had the pleasure sharing the photos first from the film that the studio explains is not a reboot or a remake of their Resident Evil film franchise that was loosely based on the popular zombie apocalypse video game franchise that seen a plethora of games hit consoles since it was first introduced in 1996. In the first look photos, we see the new big-screen versions of Claire and Chris Red...
HHW Gaming: Upcoming ‘Dead Space’ Livestream Will Give Fans An “Early Look” At The Game
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Motive Studios/ Dead Space Motive Studios is giving us an “early look” at the upcoming Dead Space reboot. Fans of the classic sci-fi/horror adventure will be able to get an “early look” at the highly anticipated Dead Space remake Tuesday (Aug.31), the EA Studio announced. The game studio revealed gamers could look forward to witnessing an “early build” of the game. In addition, we will also be hearing from Dead Space leads at Motive, including Senior Producer Philippe Ducharme and Creative Director Roman Campos-Oriola, who detail their vision for this remake. We can also expect to see special guests from the Dead Space Community Council, a group that is comprised of the franchise’s biggest fans who have been consulting on this project. This event com...
HHW Gaming: Overwatch League Cancels In-Person Playoff Events Because You Know Why
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 This news should come as no surprise to fans of the Overwatch League. As spotted on The Verge, the Overwatch League will no longer hold its in-person playoff matches originally set to go down in Dallas and Los Angeles. In a statement shared on the league’s official Twitter account, it wrote, “Due to significant changes in the environment affecting travel for some teams, we’ve decided to pivot away from originally scheduled live events in Dallas and Los Angeles,” further adding “Instead, postseason competition will return to Hawai’i for playoffs.” While not directly saying it, the decision was more than likely made due to the highly contagious Delta Variant kicking the United States a** and spreading around the globe, acqu...
HHW Gaming: ‘NBA 2K22’s Next Courtisde Report Reveals Whats New In The W Game Mode
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Visual Concepts / NBA 2K22 NBA 2K22’s fourth courtside report focuses on The W. As promised, the team Visual Concepts is back with more information about NBA 2K22 ahead of the game’s release. We learned that Seasons will now extend across MyCAREER, MyTEAM, and The W Online in the last courtside report. Now, we are learning what new features the ladies can look forward to when they begin their careers in The W in hopes of being the next WNBA superstar. NBA 2K made the necessary (and very much late) move to bring the WNBA to the game franchise with NBA 2K20. Visual Concepts took things even further in NBA 2K21 with the addition of The W, the first-ever MyPLAYER WNBA-focused experience. Thursday (Aug.26), Visual Concepts revealed that it is continuing to bui...
Kanye West’s New DONDA Stem Player Puts Music Production In The Palm of Your Hands
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West might be on to something here. The rapper, who might be known as just Ye if he has his way, is currently on tour across the country playing an album his fans can’t even get their hands on. While all this is going on, West continues to express his interest in the tech world. The embattled rapper’s tech branch of his YEEZY company unveiled its new Donda Stem Player that will allow users to “customize any song,” basically turning any regular old joe into a music producer. According to The Verge, Ye’s website states the device will cost $200 and will allegedly ship sometime this “Summer” with his album DONDA. So basically, we’re not holding our breath till we see this thing in the hands of actual people. As far as the specs...
