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HHW Gaming: Xbox Owners Are BIG Mad About Forced Crossplay With PC Gamers
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bungie / Halo Infinite Multiplayer The honeymoon phase for crossplay between Xbox and PC gamers seems to be over. Per The Verge, Xbox gamers are making it very clear they are tired of being forced into crossplay with PC players. Before it became an issue, crossplay was a big request from Xbox and PC gamers, with Microsoft being firmly behind the feature. Now, as cheating becomes more rampant in free-to-play online shooters, Halo Infinite and Call of Duty: Warzone, Xbox gamers are now demanding that Microsoft introduce some sort of opt-out feature. Both titles listed above force Xbox players to face off against PC gamers in featured playlists in the games. Forced crossplay is a scam by Microsoft,” one post on Microsoft’s Halo Waypoint forums said. “F...
God of War Brings Its Award-Winning Adventure to PC This Week
If you haven’t played 2018’s God of War yet, you’re really running out of excuses. The lauded Game of the Year winner is considered one of the best video games in history, and now it’s not even a PlayStation exclusive anymore. Launching on PC (via both Steam and the Epic Games Store) this Friday (January 14), the adventures of Kratos, Atreus, and the whole cast of characters will be shining like never before in the newest release. Without the constraints of the PS4’s hardware, the Santa Monica Studio team was able to explore higher resolutions, modified control schemes, and a wide range of other technological improvements that PC players have grown used to. And while the game itself is technically almost 4 years old already, everything from the combat to the story to the visuals still hold...
HHW Gaming: Lastest Trailer For ‘Destiny: The Witch Queen’ Expansion Gives Us A Tour of Savathun’s Throne
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bungie / Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Destiny 2: The Witch Queen is almost here. Bungie is giving us a glimpse of the new world the guardians will have to navigate. The Witch Queen is shaping to be Destiny 2’s most extensive expansion and most expansive yet and will breathe new life into uber-popular loot shooter. In the upcoming update, the Guardians face their most formidable challenge yet in Savathûn, who somehow can use both the light and dark powers, plus grants Guardian light abilities to her minions called the Lucent Brood. Source: Bungie / Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Related Stories The fast-paced action will occur in Savathûn’s Throne World, which Bungie calls “a twisted wonderland of corruption and splendor,” which also hosts a terrifying bala...
HHW Gaming: Court Upholds Firing of LAPD Officers Who Chose To Catch ‘Pokémon’ Instead of Crooks
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Two LAPD officers had to catch them all, and we’re not talking about crooks. Per the Los Angeles Times, a California appeals court upheld the dismissal of two Los Angeles Police Department officers who thought playing Pokémon GO on the job was more important than stopping a bank robbery going down at the Crenshaw Mall in 2017. According to court records, the California Court of Appeal rejected the claim of the two officers, Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell, that the LAPD “improperly used a digital in-car video recording of their private conversations in order to prove their misconduct, and another that they were improperly subjected to questioning about their actions by a supervisor without legal or labor representation present...
HHW Gaming: Take-Two Interactive Dropping $12.7 Billion Bag On ‘Farmville’ Creator Zynga
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Grand Theft Auto and Farmville will now be under one umbrella once this deal goes through. Per IGN, Rockstar, and 2K games parent company, Take-Two Interactive is set to acquire popular mobile game developer Zynga. The deal is reportedly worth $12.7 billion and, when it is completed is poised to be bigger than Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda. With an agreement in place, Take-Two looks to expand its mobile gaming portfolio by adding games like Words With Friends, CSR Racing, Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells. Zynga is also developing Star Wars Hunters, a new game for the Nintendo Switch set for a 2022 release. Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier hints the deal could see the arrival of Rockstar Games’ big franchises like GTA and R...
HHW Gaming: E3 Presses Pause Button On In-Person Convention Again, No Word On Digital Show
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: FREDERIC J. BROWN / Getty No surprise, E3 is not holding an in-person event in 2022. The ESA (Entertainment Software Association) announced it hit the pause button on E3 2022, well, in-person for that matter. The ESA came to its decision out of concern due to the spread of the tightly contagious Omicron COVID-19 variant, but some believe there are other reasons for the move. “Due to the ongoing health risks surrounding COVID-19 and its potential impact on the safety of exhibitors and attendees, E3 will not be held in person in 2022,” the ESA said in a statement sent to IGN. “We remain incredibly excited about the future of E3 and look forward to announcing more details soon.” While it’s totally understandable, the ESA decided to make this move. It would h...
HHW Gaming: Activision Is Suing Company For Distributing ‘Call of Duty’ Cheats
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chesnot / Getty One company is learning that cheating in Call of Duty will probably cost a lot of money. Spotted on The Verge, Activision Publishing, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, slapped EngineOwning, a company best known for advertising cheats for Call of Duty, as well as other online shooters. The video game company also wants to shut down any software that allows players to cheat in games published by Activision. “By this lawsuit, Activision seeks to put a stop to unlawful conduct by an organization that is distributing and selling for profit numerous malicious software products designed to enable members of the public to gain unfair competitive advantages (i.e., to cheat) in the COD Games,” Activision states in its lawsuit.” These ongoing acti...
HHW Gaming: Sony Announces PlayStation VR2, Here Is What We Know So Far
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alex Wong / Getty Sony has been slowly dropping bread crumbs about its next VR headset and Monday night ((Jan.4) we got our best look yet at PlayStation’s next step into the world of virtual reality. At CES 2022, Sony dropped the bomb that PlayStation VR2 is coming and will work exclusively on PS5. The company gave us a tease in a very short segment, but a good tease about its latest gaming peripheral while not revealing pertinent information like price or a release date. But, it was still enough info to get PlayStation fans, especially fans of PlayStation VR, to get excited about what’s to come. Related Stories From what we know, like the PS5, PlayStation VR2 sounds like it will be very impressive based on the specs. It will feature a fantastic panel ref...
HHW Gaming: Ubisoft+ Coming To Xbox & ‘Rainbow Six Extraction’ Launching On Game Pass
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ubisoft / Rainbow Six Extraction If you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, today was a good day for you. Wednesday (Jan.5), Ubisoft announced that its subscription service, Ubisoft+, will be coming to Xbox consoles bringing its library of more than 100 games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and more with it. Initially enjoyed by PC owners, now Xbox console owners can get in on the fun for a single monthly price, granting them access to games, DLC on launch day, plus rewards like cosmetics, boosters, and other in-game items. But, that’s not all. The latest installment in the famed Rainbow Six game franchise, Extraction, was announced as a day-one release for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. [embedded content] Related Stories “By making Rain...
Award-Winning Homeworld Composer Paul Ruskay Releases Behind-the-Scenes Documentary
Roughly 23 years ago, Canadian musician Paul Ruskay quit his day job to compose the soundtrack for the first project from an indie game developer based in Vancouver called Relic Entertainment. It was a little real-time strategy title set in a sci-fi universe, and the development for the game was anything but smooth (as debut releases by young companies so often are). But almost immediately after Homeworld was finally released, the popularity and critical acclaim for the game hit levels that no one expected. Rave reviews praised its gameplay, narrative, graphics and soundtrack, “Game of the Year” award nominations started rolling in, and everyone involved quickly realized they needed to strike while the iron was hot. Six Homeworld releases (five games and a remaster of the original), two de...
HHW Gaming: Shaq Says He Got His Hands On 1,000 PS5 & Nintendo Switch Consoles, Gamers Ask How?
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Mark Sullivan / Getty Does Shaq know the PS5 and Nintendo Switch plug, or is he the plug?That’s the million-dollar question gamers asked after the NBA Hall-of-Famer revealed something very interesting. In an episode of The GaryVee Audio Experience, the big fella revealed he put on his Santa hat and gifted 1,000 PS5 and Nintendo Switch consoles to kids at an elementary school for the holidays. “I call, you know my, my friend from Nintendo Switch, got about 1,000 (Nintendo) Switches sitting there, got about 1,00 PS5s, I went to Walmart and got bikes. So, you know, yesterday at this little elementary school in McDonough, Georgia, kids were crying, kids were happy, and that’s what it’s all about.” While that is very dope for those little elementary scho...
HHW Gaming: Shaq Says He Got His Hands On A 1,000 PS5 & Nintendo Switch Consoles, Gamers Ask How?
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Mark Sullivan / Getty Does Shaq know the PS5 and Nintendo Switch plug, or is he the plug?That’s the million-dollar question gamers asked after the NBA Hall-of-Famer revealed something very interesting. In an episode of The GaryVee Audio Experience, the big fella revealed he put on his Santa hat and gifted 1,000 PS5 and Nintendo Switch consoles to kids at an elementary school for the holidays. “I call, you know my, my friend from Nintendo Switch, got about 1,000 (Nintendo) Switches sitting there, got about 1,00 PS5s, I went to Walmart and got bikes. So, you know, yesterday at this little elementary school in McDonough, Georgia, kids were crying, kids were happy, and that’s what it’s all about.” While that is very dope for those little elementary scho...
