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HHW Gaming: ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ & Other Big Announcements From The Game Awards
Written By Bernard “Beanz” Smalls , Staff Writer Posted 6 hours ago @photosbybeanz Meet Bernard Smalls, better known as Beanz. He is the Men’s Lifestyle & Pop Culture writer for Cassius Life plus handles tech and video games for Hip-Hop Wired. Beanz has been with the company since 2019 and has been working as a writer for eight years. His favorite hobbies include video games, of course, and watching a lot of movies, mainly sci-fi. He also moonlights as a photographer in his spare time. @photosbybeanz Follow @photosbybeanz HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Respawn Entertainment / Star Wars Jedi: Survivor The Game Awards are not just about handing out trophies. We also get to see trailers for the games we are looking forward to and titles we didn’t know were comi...
FTC Sues to Block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Purchase
On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission announced it is suing to block Microsoft‘s $69 billion USD acquisition of Activision Blizzard, citing that the deal would “enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles and its rapidly growing subscription content and cloud-gaming business.” Earlier this week, Microsoft declared a 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo if the merger successfully closes in an effort to appease federal regulators. Despite the company’s efforts, the F.T.C. commissioners voted 3-1 to issue the complaint. “Microsoft has already shown that it can and will withhold content from its gaming rivals,” said Holly Vedova, director of the F.T.C.’s Bureau of Competition, in a statement. “Today we seek to stop Microsoft from gaining control ove...
‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ Receives an Official Reveal Trailer
At this year’s The Game Awards, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts, and Lucasfilm Games shared an official reveal trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Serving as a follow-up to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the upcoming title chronicles the next chapter in Cal Kestis’ saga. In the trailer, Kestis is shown as a mature Jedi Knight following a five-year time skip. While evading the Empire with his droid companion BD-1 by his side, the Jedi must join forces with new and old allies on his ongoing quest across the galaxy. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will introduce exciting new gameplay with numerous combat stances to enhance gameplay. Kestis is shown using Dual Lightsabers and a new Crossguard stance for combat options that elevate the action for gamers. “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor evolves the g...
Atari Is Bringing Jeff Minter’s ‘Akka Arrh’ Arcade Game Back
Atari has just released the official trailer for Akka Arrh, a modern remake of legendary game developer Jeff Minter’s unreleased 1982 arcade game. The original project was scrapped before its release due to feedback from game testers, who claimed the game was too hard to play. The new Akka Arrh, which will be executed by Minter’s software house, LLamasoft, will be honoring the prototype with its creative vision in a brand-new psychedelic wave-shooter game. Like the original, the remake will span 50 levels of pure arcade bliss in Jeff Minter’s signature humor and synthwave-esque aesthetics. Additionally, the game will also provide adjustability for light-sensitive players to tone down or disable the intensity of its trippy visuals. Scheduled for release in early 2023, Akka Arrh will be avai...
A ‘Hellboy’ Video Game Is on the Way
A new game from the Hellboy franchise has surfaced at The Game Awards in collaboration with the original comic artist and writer Mike Mignola. While official gameplay has yet to surface, Hellboy: Web of Wyrd is described as a third-person rogue-lite action-adventure title centered around the benevolent half-demon superhero. Developed by Upstream Arcade, Mignola and Dark Horse Comics help write the story and Mignola delivers key art reflective of his original comic style. The game is expected to tie together several stories into a single Hellboy experience while staying true to the spirit of the comics. Below is an official description of the game via its Steam bio. “Developed by Upstream Arcade, Hellboy Web of Wyrd is an original story created in partnership with Dark Horse Comics and crea...
HHW Gaming: Kid Crashes ‘Elden Ring’s Game of The Year Moment At ‘The Game Awards,’ Twitter Reacts
Written By Bernard “Beanz” Smalls , Staff Writer Posted 4 hours ago @photosbybeanz Meet Bernard Smalls, better known as Beanz. He is the Men’s Lifestyle & Pop Culture writer for Cassius Life plus handles tech and video games for Hip-Hop Wired. Beanz has been with the company since 2019 and has been working as a writer for eight years. His favorite hobbies include video games, of course, and watching a lot of movies, mainly sci-fi. He also moonlights as a photographer in his spare time. @photosbybeanz Follow @photosbybeanz HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: The Game Awards / The Game Awards 2022 The biggest night in video games almost went off without a hitch. Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards arrived and ended with a strange moment that left gamers scratching the...
HHW Gaming: The Game Awards Full List of Winners
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Game Awards / The Game Awards 2022 The Game Awards went down live at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 8, celebrating the best video games of the year. Coming into the night, God of War: Ragnarök led all games with ten nominations and with Elden Ring and Horzion Forbidden West close behind with seven. It looked like God of War: Ragnarök was heading towards a big night, winning six Game Awards, but Elden Ring took home the night’s most significant award, Game of The Year. FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki accepted the award, hinting at more content coming to Elden Ring and a new game from the studio. He also thanked author George R.R. Martin who wrote the backstory for the game. In addition to Game of The Year, Elden R...
GameStop to drop crypto efforts as Q3 losses near $95M
Gaming retailer GameStop says it will no longer focus any efforts on cryptocurrencies, after amounting $94.7 million in net losses in the third quarter and laying off staff from its digital assets department. On a Dec. 7 earnings call GameStop CEO, Matt Furlong, said it “proactively minimized exposure to cryptocurrency” over the year and “does not currently hold a material balance of any token,” adding: “Although we continue to believe there is long-term potential for digital assets in the gaming world, we have not and will not risk meaningful stockholder capital in this space.” Earlier this year the company said it was looking at crypto, along with nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and Web3 applications, as avenues for growth calling these spaces “increasingly relevant for gamers of the fut...
Martin Garrix and JVKE Join Forces for “Marvel Snap” Track, “Hero”
Martin Garrix‘s influence has extended far beyond the confines of the electronic dance music community before. But he’s outdone himself after his latest high-profile collaboration. The Dutch EDM superstar has joined forces with JVKE for “Hero,” a track produced for Marvel‘s collectible card game, “Marvel Snap.” The song comes paired with an animated video that explores “iconic relationships from across the Marvel Multiverse,” pairing Storm with Black Panther, Spider-Man with Mary Jane and more. In celebration of the song’s release, “Marvel Snap” is set to host an in-game “Hero” event with themed rewards, according to Marvel. All players who log in will receive a free “Storm Hero” variant illustr...
HHW Gaming: FTC Suing Microsoft To Block Its Activision Blizzard Acquisition
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty / Xbox Microsoft and Xbox are having a hard time closing this Activision/Blizzard acquisition, and this latest news isn’t providing any more hope that it will happen soon. The FTC announced in a statement it would sue Microsoft to block the $68.7 billion Activision/Blizzard acquisition from happening. The Federal Trade Commission believes Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision/Blizzard will allow Xbox to “gain control of top video game franchises” and would “harm competition in high-performance gaming consoles and subscriptions services by denying or degrading rivals’ access to its popular content.” Related Stories To back its suit, the FTC points to Microsoft’s previous record of acquiring content “to suppress competition from rival conso...
You Can Now Choose Your Own Power-ups in the Latest ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’ Update
A new software update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has arrived. The fun, yet competitive Nintendo racing game now comes with the Custom Items option, which promises to bring mayhem to players during offline VS Races, Team Races in Battles, as well as select online team modes. Traditionally, power-ups for Mario Kart are randomly assigned, and players often have to play strategically just in case they end up with a less-than-ideal item i.e. coins in the final lap. With the Custom Items option now, players can customize the type of power-up items to receive whenever they pick up an item box in-game. This allows players to curate their races, whether it’s chaotic like an all-Blue Shells mode, or fast and furious with only Bullet Bill power-ups. For seasoned players who want to test their driving sk...
Santa Snoop Comes to ‘Call of Duty: Mobile’
Following the arrival of limited-time skin bundles featuring football legends Neymar Jr., Paul Pogba, and Lionel Messi on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the Call of Duty franchise now reconnects with Snoop Dogg for Call of Duty: Mobile, introducing Santa Snoop. The upcoming Christmas bundle coincides with the launch of Ulitmate Frontier, the eleventh and final season of the year. In addition to the Santa Snoop skin, the new season will also offer new weapons, themed events, game modes, maps, and other holiday specials. Snoop Dogg’s first collaboration with CoD was in 2013’s Ghosts in which voice bundles were available to replace standard operator phrases. Since then, he’s appeared as an operator for several titles wielding weapons such as the “Bong Ripper” sniper and the “West Coast ...
