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HHW Gaming: ‘Call of Duty: Mobile’ Surpasses 500 Million Downloads, Blesses Players With Free In-Game Gift
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Players are showing no sign of Call of Duty fatigue. Tuesday (May 4), Call of Duty announced that its free-to-play mobile game surpassed 500 million downloads worldwide since its October 2019 launch. Rob Kostich, president of Activision, also shared during an earnings call of parent company Activision Blizzard that the game crossed $1 billion in player spending. Can we borrow some money? To celebrate the occasion, Call of Duty: Mobile thanked the community, players, and supporters by blessing them with an in-game gift for their loyal support. Call of Duty: Mobile is currently enjoying success thanks to its latest expansion Tokyo Escape, and it is now the highest grossest expansion Kostich revealed. Thanks to both Cal...
HHW Gaming: Sony Announces Partnership WIth Discord, PS5 & PS4 Integration Arriving Next Year
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Well, this news came out of nowhere, but it’s definitely welcomed. Monday (Apr.3) PlayStation president and CEO Jim Ryan announced via a blog post that PlayStation is embarking on a partnership with Discord, the communication service used by gamers to chat with each other. In his post, Ryan begins, “At PlayStation, we’re constantly looking for new ways to enable players around the world to connect with one another, form new friendships and communities, and share fun experiences and lasting memories. It’s in this spirit that we’re excited to announce a new partnership with Discord, the communication service popularized by gamers and used by more than 140 million people every month around the world.” “Our teams are already hard at work c...
HHW Gaming: ‘Mortal Kombat’ Actor Joe Taslim Hints At Sub-Zero’s Future & Wanting To Do A Prequel
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Warner Bros. / Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat is still being talked about following its highly anticipated release. One of the film’s stars is already envisioning the future for his character. Beware, spoliers ahead. Whether you liked it or not, Mortal Kombat was a success for HBO Max and at the box office and will likely spawn sequel films. Indonesian actor and renowned martial artist Joe Taslim who did what he had to do as everyone’s favorite cryomancer assassin Sub-Zero has plans for his character that he hopes will come to light in future films. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Taslim revealed that he hopes to play Bi-Han (Sub-Zero’s real name) again in a prequel and a subsequent sequel. Now, for those who have seen the movie, Sub-Zero was turned in...
HHW Gaming: 2021 NFL Draft Picks Trevor Lawrence, Trey Lance & Zack Wilson Now Playable In ‘Madden NFL 21’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: EA Sports / Madden NFL 21 You don’t have to wait for the new Madden game to take the 2021 NFL Draft prospects for a spin. Some lucky fans will even be able to test your skills against them as well. Friday (Apr.30), EA Sports announced it has teamed up with this year’s top NFL Draft picks in celebration of Thursday night’s (Apr.29) draft. Today, Madden fans can play with Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, and Trey Lance in Madden Ultimate Team. Source: EA Sports / Madden NFL 21 Also announced, 23 rookies will play Madden NFL 21 as their new team for the first time against seven lucky fans starting today through Monday, May 3. Those fans were chosen after interacting with the players as they were drafted during the NFL Draft. Source: EA Sports / M...
HHW Gaming: Michael B. Jordan Says “It Would Be Dope” To Be Featured In His Own ‘Without Remorse’ Video Game
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amazon Studios / Without Remorse Michael B. Jordan’s newest film, Without Remorse, puts a fresh spin on a popular character in Tom Clancy’s “Ryanverse” of books and films. Speaking about the upcoming film, Jordan revealed that he is down to see his portrayal of the character get the video game treatment. In a recent interview with Cassius Life, Jordan, an avid gamer, revealed that his love for popular Ubisoft titles like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon inspired him to make the film Without Remorse which is the first movie released under his production company Outlier Society. “As a kid, you know I used to play Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon a lot,” Jordan begins. “I used to envision all the hours we played on that game, and we put ourselves in those...
HHW Gaming: Tim Cook, Tim Sweeney & More Could Be Called As Witnesses In Next Week’s ‘Fortnite’ Trial
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty The long-awaited legal battle between Fortnite developer Epic Games and Apple finally goes to trial next week, and the witness list is stacked. Back in August, Apple gave Fortnite the boot from the App Store after Epic Games revealed it would be bypassing the 30% revenue cut that both the App Store and Google Play store takes when players purchase V-Bucks in Fortnite. In a statement, Epic Games said, “If Apple or Google lower their fees on payments in the future, Epic will pass along the savings to you.” In response to Epic Games decision, Apple pulled the game from the App Store, and in its own statement, the company said: “Today, Epic Games took the unfortunate step of violating the App Store guidelines that are a...
HHW Gaming: T-Pain Takes Out Whole Squad of Racists By Himself During A ‘Call of Duty’ Match
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gustavo Caballero / Getty T-Pain put all racists playing Call of Duty on notice. The “Rappa Ternt Sanga” let them know if you gonna call him the n-word, you’re going to pay for it in the game. And he took it personally. All Black gamers experience racism when playing their favorite video games online, even celebrities. Call of Duty is notorious for racist trash talk from Caucasian gamers who become very brave and say many things they definitely wouldn’t say to a Black person’s face while playing online. T-Pain, an avid gamer for those who didn’t know, is no stranger to racism while gaming and experienced it during a recent match, and he handled it in the most satisfying way ever. In the video, his white opponents can clearly be heard saying “f*** Black li...
HHW Gaming: Team Xbox Will Discuss Accessible Representative Gaming at this Year’s Super Diverse GamesBeat Summit Inbox
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bloomberg / Getty Representation matters, not only in film but in video games as well. Xbox is very aware of that and is looking to tackle the issue head-on. Xbox is one of the few companies in the gaming space that is actively doing the work to promote more diversity, accessibility, and representation in gaming and at the same time challenging the rest of the industry to do the same. During Black History Month, Xbox announced a series of activations to amplify Black voices and promote inclusive storytelling in video games. Ensuring that it’s keeping the same energy, Xbox announced on Tuesday (Apr.27) that four members of Team Xbox will host a much-needed discussion to talk about “how it plans to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on t...
HHW Gaming: ‘Mortal Kombat’ & ‘Injustice’ Studio Working On New Marvel Fighting Game: Report
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 A new Marvel-based fighting game? Made by the same studio that brought us Mortal Kombat 11 and Injustice? WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT. According to the digital grapevine, a new Marvel fighting game is in the works, and NetherRealm Studio is allegedly behind it. If this is indeed the case, it will be the first game since 2017’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and would mean that NetherRealm is not currently working on the follow-up to Injustice 2: Gods Among Us. [embedded content] The report comes from Daniel Richtman (via Stealth Optional) and doesn’t bear much in the form of details, so please take all of this with the tiniest grain of salt while at the same time being excited at the possibility that su...
HHW Gaming: Basketball & Video Games Collide With ANTA x HyperX’s Gordon Hayward Limited-Edition Bundle
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / ANTA x HyperX Athletic wear and gaming have gone hand in hand as of late, so this latest collaboration between ANTA and HyperX makes all the sense in the world. The two companies have one thing in common, they both work with Boston Celtic forward Gordon Hayward, so the decision to work together on this limited-edition box was a no-brainer. It brings together the two things that Hayward love’s to do, and that is playing basketball and gaming. Source: Bernard Smalls / ANTA x HyperX Inside the box is a limited-edition pair of Hayward’s signature basketball sneakers from ANTA, the GH2 “HyperX” and HyperX Cloud Alpha gaming headset. The sneakers feature some unique gaming-inspired details that help them easily stand out from other shoe silhoue...
HHW Gaming: The Video Game Industry Found Its Way Into The Oscars Thanks To Huge Win
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Handout / Getty Unfortunately, The Academy has yet to acknowledge video games as a medium worthy of an Oscar, but the video game industry might have just found its way in. Some video games are basically like films. Both have scripts, great stories, with amazing actors and actresses bringing characters to life. The only difference is you can directly interact with one, while viewers can only observe movies. That’s not enough to win a coveted Oscar award…yet, but video games did find a way to be recognized on Hollywood’s biggest night. Sunday night (Apr.25), during The Oscars, the documentary short Colette won an Academy Award, a huge first for the video game industry. The doc was originally produced by Oculus Studios and EA’s Respawn Entertainmen...
HHW Gaming: Saweetie, Young Thug, & More Star In ‘Call of Duty: Warzone’s “Squad up the World” Season 3 Short Film
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Call of Duty: Warzone / Activision The trailer Call of Duty: Warzone’s third season is pretty damn lit. Fresh off the news that Call of Duty’s extremely popular free-to-play component Warzone has officially surpassed 100 million players and eclipsing 400 million premium Call of Duty game sales, Activision shared a new short film/trailer titled “Squad up the World” for Warzone’s third season. The action-packed trailer features the whos who of the Hip-Hop, gaming, and sports community living out their Call of Duty-inspired fantasies. The short film directed by young visionary Gibson Hazard opens up with Young Thug making a daring leap from a skyscraper into a chopper piloted by his homie Gunna. Thugger lets some bullets fly at some opponents in the building...
