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HHW Gaming: ‘Street Fighter’ Fans React To The News Fei Long Allegedly Being Removed From Future Games
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Capcom / Ultra Street Fighter IV Is Fei Long’s run in Street Fighter coming to an end? That might be the unfortunate case. Fei Long, a character that obviously gets his inspiration from the iconic martial arts movie star Bruce Lee, quickly became a favorite among fighting game fans when he was first introduced in Super Street Fighter II. Nintendo Life reports that Fei Long’s time as a playable character in the Street Fighter game has ended. Like Bruce Lee, Fei Long was a martial artist and action star and was Capcom’s tribute to the late actor, but apparently, the Lee family has done a 360 when it comes to seeing non-serious depictions of Bruce Lee. Street Fighter V composer Daniel Lindholm revealed during a YouTube Q&A that “comedic interpretat...
HHW Gaming: Sorry PS4 & Xbox One Owners, You Need A PS5 or Xbox Series X To Play ‘Gotham Knights’
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: WB Games / Gotham Knights It looks like video game studios are slowly transitioning away from the PS4 and Xbox One, and we think that is a good idea. Gotham Knights will be the next big video game that only next-generation console owners will be able to enjoy. Tuesday (May.10), Warner Bros. Interactive unveiled a new gameplay demo of its highly anticipated game Gotham Knights, which also came with some disheartening news. The studio announced the game would no longer be coming to last-generation systems. That is a complete 360 from original news when Gotham Knights was first announced in 2020 when Warner Bros. Interactive said the game would be coming to the PS4 and Xbox One. [embedded content] As for the reasoning for the decision, the studio said ...
HHW Gaming: ‘The Division 2’ Gets An Extra Life With The Arrival of Season 9 Roadmap
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ubisoft / Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Remember Tom Clancy’s The Division 2? Well, it’s still here and is getting some much-needed new content. Ubisoft kicked the week off during a live stream event by announcing The Division 2’s season 9 road map. It seemed like Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 was dying a slow death repeating previous seasons without adding any significant new content after initially supporting the game for years. During the live stream, Ubisoft promised The Division 2 would be getting more new content and that season 9, dubbed “Hidden Alliance,” would see new targets, new modes, and features and have new people working on the game. Returning is a mode The Division 2 players are already familiar with that will task them with hunting five spec...
HHW Gaming: Method Man Flexes Lyrical Muscle On New ‘Evil Dead: The Game’ Song “Come Get Some”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: CBS Photo Archive / Getty Method Man is lighting up television screens with Power Book II: Ghost performance, but he reminded us he still has bars and flexes his lyrical muscle on the new track for Evil Dead: The Game. Friday (May.6), Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games dropped the new Statik Selektah-produced track “Come Get Some” that features Method Man, his son PXWER and U-God’s son iNTeLL. A fan of the Sam Raimi Evil Dead films, Method Man easily glides over the song while dropping slick references to movies. “Come Get Some” features original voice samples from Bruce Campbell as the iconic Ash Williams and puts a Hip-Hop inspired spin on the film’s 1981 original soundtrack. [embedded content] The arrival of “Come Get Some” follows the release ...
HHW Gaming: Xbox Celebrates May The 4th With Custom LEGO ‘Star Wars’ Series S Consoles
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Xbox / Star Wars Custom Xbox Series S Consoles Happy Star Wars Day, and to celebrate, Xbox is giving away custom Xbox Series S consoles that *Jedi mind trick voice* you do want in your collection. May The 4th, the official Star Wars holiday is here, and to ring in the day beloved by nerds and blerds, Xbox has announced a new contest. Coming on the heels of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga launch, Xbox has teamed up with LEGO and Lucas Arts to make 12 custom Xbox Series S consoles featuring iconic characters from the 9 Star Wars Skywalker saga films. From May 4 to May 25, gamers can try to get their hands on one of the 12 consoles by simply following the Xbox Twitter account and retweeting the official sweepstakes tweet with #LegoSta...
The Skywalker Saga Brings LEGO and Star Wars Games to New Heights
Calling LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga “huge” is probably still an understatement. As one might’ve guessed from the title, the latest LEGO-based video game features their signature stylized version of all nine main Star Wars tales. To tell those stories, the game features more than eight hours of music by legendary Star Wars composer John Williams and additional two-and-a-half hours of additional new music — and that’s not even counting the 15,000 lines of dialogue (per each of the game’s 9 available languages) strewn throughout the massive undertaking. The Skywalker Saga’s launch last month was also unsurprisingly one of the biggest in LEGO history, as bringing all of the beloved (and less beloved) Star Wars movies into one family-friendly humor-filled game was bound to be popular. Bu...
HHW Gaming: Razer’s New Blade 15 Laptop Sounds Like Its Going To A Beast
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Razer / Razer Blade 15 Based on the specs, Razer might have just unveiled a beast of a gaming laptop. Tuesday (May.3), Razer announced its new Blade 15 gaming laptop, and it sounds like one powerful video game-playing machine. What sets this model apart from previous models is that it features an OLED QHD 240Hz display, which is unheard of on a gaming laptop. Razer boasts the Blade 15’s screen is brighter and has more vivid colors, plus performs at “esports-level speeds.” The screen is also paired with a 12th gen Intel Core i9-12900H processor and an NVIDIA®️ RTX 3070 Ti laptop graphics card making it the go-to machine for the gamers and creators. Related Stories The new OLED screen can also reach 400 nits brightness and include up to 100% DC...
HHW Gaming: Razer Announces It’s On-Going Collaboration With Marvel Will Continue
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Razer / Razer x Marvel Hey true believers, if you wanted more Marvel-themed Xbox controllers from Razer, we have some good news. On Monday (May.2), Razer, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, announced that its collaboration with Marvel would continue. While not getting into details about what other Marvel properties are coming, gamers can look forward to more limited-edition gaming peripherals like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier-themed Xbox controller paired with a charging stand from Razer. Razer also revealed more Star Wars-themed gaming accessories like The Mandalorian and Boba Fett “will span across multiple IP with many more still to come,” hinting at a possible announcement coming this May the 4th. Razer will also be expanding its cons...
HHW Gaming: New Anti-Cheat System Makes Legit ‘Call of Duty’ Players Invisible To Cheaters
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Treyarch / Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War This latest Call of Duty anti-cheat system will definitely have cheaters raging online. Activision has been on a mission to clamp down on cheating during online play in Call of Duty, specifically in the free-to-play model Warzone. In a recent blog post, the developers behind the Ricochet anti-cheat system announced a new “cloaking” measure that would make legit Call of Duty players invisible to cheaters rendering them useless during competitive matches. “Characters, bullets, even sound from legitimate players will be undetectable to cheaters,” Ricochet announced in the blog post. “Legitimate players, however, can see cheaters impacted by cloaking… and can dole out in-game punishment.” Ricochet already has anothe...
HHW Gaming Exclusive: Top NFL Draft Prospect Garrett Wilson Talks ‘Call of Duty,’ Madden Ratings & More
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Garrett Wilson / Garrett Wilson When athletes are not on the field getting busy, they are in their gaming chairs getting racking up kills in Call of Duty and getting Ws in other games. So it should come as no surprise future NFL draft pick Garrett Wilson is a huge gamer in his spare time. Ahead of Thursday’s (Apr.28) NFL Draft in Las Vegas, Hip-Hop Wired sat down virtually with the former Ohio State wide receiver before Roger Goodell calls his name and shakes his hand, welcoming him into the league. Related Stories We spoke about Wilson’s love for Call of Duty during our Zoom conversation. We learned just like New Orleans Pelicans hooper and fellow COD athlete Larry Nance Jr., Wilson has plenty of love for Call of Duty: Ghost. But, Wilson also revealed th...
Indie Puzzler Manifold Garden Gets New Burst of Life Through Mind-Bending Limited Vinyl Release
For people who aren’t fans of video games, there’s actually a lot to like about 2019 title Manifold Garden. Yes, technically, it is a video game. But it’s a video game designed, developed and published by an independent artist who really had a unique vision. From a gameplay perspective, Manifold Garden is a physics-based puzzle game. It’s abstract, it’s weird, and it’ll definitely make you consider when the last time you took psychedelics was. But more than anything, Manifold Garden’s atmosphere and ambiance are as much a take on modern art as they are a modern video game — and with those visuals comes a need for a particularly unique soundtrack. That’s where Laryssa Okada came in. With a background in music editing and audio production for much larger titles (series like Mass Effect, Assa...
HHW Gaming: Here’s When You Can Expect ‘Halo Infinite’s Co-Op Mode To Arrive
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: 343 Industries / HALO Infinite Halo Infinite’s buzz has come and gone, but 343 Industries hopes this latest news sparks some new excitement and brings players back. Fans were epically let down when 343 Industries announced that co-op mode, a feature fans wanted the most when Halo Infinite was first released, would not be available at launch. Unfortunately, we are still waiting for co-op mode to come, but now at least, we have an idea of when we can expect it to arrive. Related Stories Along with the announcement of the 2022 roadmap, 343 Industries says co-op mode will launch sometime in “late August,” Halo’s head of creative Joseph Staten said in a recent blog post. Along with that announcement, some more sad news came, a split-screen co-op, which allows ...
