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HHW Gaming: Spruce Up Your Game Room With Kidrobot’s Sega Genesis Plush Console
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kidrobot / Sega Genesis Gaming Console 12″ Interactive Plush This would be the perfect gift for the gamer in your life. Getting in on the video game nostalgia craze, Kidrobot decided to drop a plush 12″ interactive Sega Genesis console. It accurately recreates Sega’s iconic home gaming console featuring a detachable controller, a Sonic The Hedgehog video game cartridge that can be inserted into the Genesis console. Source: Kidrobot / Sega Genesis Gaming Console 12″ Interactive Plush The plush console is the perfect compliment to anyone’s gaming room or man cave and will certainly grab the attention of people when they enter. It’s on sale right now via Kidrobot’s website for only $29.99 and joins the brand’s growing collection of gaming-related plush...
HHW Gaming: Activision Reportedly Pushes 2023’s ‘Call of Duty’ Game A Whole Year
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Sledgehammer Games / Call of Duty: Vanguard Activision is reportedly doing something it has never done before with its annual Call of Duty games by deciding to skip a year.Bloomberg reports after this year’s Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty game, Activision will reportedly take a break in 2023, opting to push Treyarch’s latest installment in the COD franchise to 2024. The decision comes in the wake of Sledgehammer Games’ latest offering, Call of Duty: Vanguard failing to capture that magic most Call of Duty games have been known for, “leading some executives to believe that they’re introducing new versions too rapidly.” You think? Activision is planning “a steady stream of additional content” dedicated to this year’s Call of Duty game to fill the massiv...
HHW Gaming: Activision Reportedly Pushes 2023’s ‘Call of Duty’ Game A Whole Year
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Sledgehammer Games / Call of Duty: Vanguard Activision is reportedly doing something it has never done before with its annual Call of Duty games by deciding to skip a year.Bloomberg reports after this year’s Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty game, Activision will reportedly take a break in 2023, opting to push Treyarch’s latest installment in the COD franchise to 2024. The decision comes in the wake of Sledgehammer Games’ latest offering, Call of Duty: Vanguard failing to capture that magic most Call of Duty games have been known for, “leading some executives to believe that they’re introducing new versions too rapidly.” You think? Activision is planning “a steady stream of additional content” dedicated to this year’s Call of Duty game to fill the massiv...
HHW Gaming: ‘Rainbow Six Extraction’s First Post-Launch ‘Spillover’ Crisis Event Has Arrived
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ubisoft / Rainbow Six Extraction Spillover Event Ubisoft’s surprise hit Rainbow Six Extraction is already getting its first post-launch Crisis Event. Friday (Feb.18), Ubisoft announced Rainbow Six Extraction’s first post-launch Crisis Event, Spillover is now available. Per Ubisoft, the limited-time Crisis Events are described as “unique large-scale threats in the Containment Zone.” In Spillover, players will use the new Dissolution Agent canisters to help draw out waves of Archaens to wipe out colonies of alien sprawl. Source: Ubisoft / Rainbow Six Extraction Spillover Event Players who log in during Spillover will have the opportunity to earn new REACT tech like the Auto-Turret, a deployable turret that automatically targets and attacks Archaeans. ...
HHW Gaming: Quavo & The Game Announced As The First Celeb Cards Ever In ‘NBA 2K22’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: 2K / NBA 2K22 Hip-Hop stars/ gym heroes, Quavo, and The Game are now playable in NBA 2K22. Oh, and Ronnie 2K is available for use as well. Right on time for NBA All-Star weekend, 2K announced that part-time hoopers turned Hip-Hop stars Quavo and The Game will be living out their hoop dreams as playable characters in NBA 2K22, joining 2K’s Director of Digital Marketing, Ronnie Singh as part of the games Celeb Cards package. A first for the insanely popular basketball video game franchise. The big news comes both Singh and Quavo were both announced to be participating in their fourth Celebrity All-Star Game in Cleveland as part of the slate of NBA All-Star Weekend activities going down in The Land. NBA 2K22 players interested in using the celebs can earn th...
HHW Gaming: Master Splinter Gets Busy In Latest ‘TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge’ Trailer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dotemu / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Donatello are getting more help to take down the Shredder, Krang, and the Foot Clan. Thursday (Feb.10), Dotemu unleashed its latest trailer for the highly anticipated beat ’em up co-op video game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. Unlike previous iterations of games featuring the mean, green fighting machine, players will have the choice to also play with April O’Neil and now the Ninja Turtle’s sensei and father, Master Splinter. Source: Dotemu / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge In the trailer, we get a full breakdown of Master Splinter’s moves proving that he’s still proficient with his hands and feet just because he’s up there ...
Dying Light 2‘s Composer Scores a Perfectly ‘Broken’ Open World Zombie Game
Dying Light pretty much raised the bar for all zombie games when it released in 2015, so it’s no surprise that fans have been anticipating Dying Light 2 Stay Human (pretty much unanimously referred to simply as Dying Light 2) since then. Now that the sequel is finally out — and already seeing a higher player count than the original ever received — gamers and horror fans around the world are embracing the world and struggles of protagonist Aiden Caldwall. To provide the score to the massive (both in scale and in popularity) title from Techland, BAFTA-nominated French composer Olivier Derivière (A Plague Tale: Innocence, Vampyr, Greedfall) blends a unique mix of high-octane action and the hopelessness of the post-apocalyptic dystopia into every bit of music within the game. After premiering ...
HHW Gaming: Petition Demanding Refunds For ‘Battlefield 2042’ Surpasses 25,000 Signatures
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: EA / DICE The fallout for EA’s once-promising shooter, Battlefield 2042, continues. Battlefield 2042 is still reeling following its launch, thanks in large part to “game-breaking bugs,” lack of content, and other issues. Per Game Informer, gamers who excitedly spent money on the game, well over 25,000 of them are now demanding a refund. A description for the Battlefield 2042 refund Change.org petition reads as follows: According to many consumer reports, Electronic Arts and DICE did not keep many promises made at launch, and Battlefield 2042 was launched as unplayable. Even today, Battlefield 2042 has bugs that drastically change the in-game experience so much that it’s deemed an unfinished release by many community members. In fact, Battlefield 2042 was ...
HHW Gaming: Rockstar Finally Confirms It Is Working On ‘GTA 6,’ Twitter Reacts To The Latest Development
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Rockstar Games / GTA 6 We knew it was coming, and finally, Rockstar Games has acknowledged that GTA 6 is in development. Grand Theft Auto V has moved over 155 million copies, brought in billions of dollars making it one of the most financially successful forms of entertainment ever made, and continues to be a cash cow for Rockstar Games thanks to GTA Online. So it’s pretty understandable that the game studio is taking its sweet time making GTA 6. In a recent blog post, Friday (Feb.4), while giving an update on new things coming to GTA Online plus updates on the next-gen versions of GTA V, Rockstar Games finally confirmed GTA 6 is in development did not share a release date. Per Rockstar Studios With the unprecedented longevity of GTAV, we know many ...
HHW Gaming: Rockstar Finally Confirms It Is Working ‘GTA 6,’ Twitter Reacts To The Latest Development
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Rockstar Games / GTA 6 We knew it was coming, and finally, Rockstar Games has acknowledged that GTA 6 is in development. Grand Theft Auto V has moved over 155 million copies, brought in billions of dollars making it one of the most financially successful forms of entertainment ever made, and continues to be a cash cow for Rockstar Games thanks to GTA Online. So it’s pretty understandable that the game studio is taking its sweet time making GTA 6. In a recent blog post, Friday (Feb.4), while giving an update on new things coming to GTA Online plus updates on the next-gen versions of GTA V, Rockstar Games finally confirmed GTA 6 is in development did not share a release date. Per Rockstar Studios With the unprecedented longevity of GTAV, we know many ...
HHW Gaming: ‘Fortnite’ Leaves The Door Open For Silk Sonic For Latest Content Collaboration
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Epic Games / Silk Sonic x Fortnite Who hasn’t been brought into the world of Fortnite at this point? Epic Games revealed it left the door open for Silk Sonic to get in on the Battle Royale fun. Fortnite players will be singing “this b****” while competing for Silk Sonic 70’s-inspired drip in the “Silk Sonic Cup” tournament as part of the dynamic R&B duo’s collaboration with the highly addictive video game in partnership with Atlantic Records. That’s not all either. Silk Sonic’s addition to Fortnite will see a new “Icon Radio” station hosted by the legendary Bootsy Collins churning out tunes from Silk Sonic’s fantastic album, An Evening with Silk Sonic, while operating vehicles in the game. As far as emotes, there will be a new one launched called “Fre...
Silk Sonic Slide Into Fortnite ‘Icon Series’ With Outfits, Radio Station
Silk Sonic joined the world of Fortnite on Thursday (Feb. 3) when the Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak-led duo announced that they’ve signed a deal to bring their smooth stylings to the virtual universe. The partnership between Atlantic Records and Fornite on the latest “Icon Series” will include in-game outfits for players, a new in-game “Icon Radio” station and an upcoming “Silk Sonic Cup” player tournament. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “When Fortnite asked me if I wanted to create an outfit for the game, I asked, ‘Are CGI muscles off the table?’ They said ‘no.’ I said ‘deal.’ I”ll see you on the Island,” Mars said in a statement, with .Paak cheekily adding, “When Fortnite agreed to give Bruno CGI muscles, I said, ‘I’m in. He could use ...
