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HHW Gaming: We Can’t Wait To Pick Up The Sticks For These Video Games In 2022
Source: Guerrilla Games / Horizon Forbidden West 2021 was a solid year for gaming, 2022 could possibly go down as one of the biggest years ever thanks to these video games dropping. Last year was our first full one with Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X. We didn’t get a lot of games, BUT we got enough to carry us through 2021. But the ball has dropped, and we are in 2022, and this year could shape up to be fantastic for gamers. Just in February alone were getting FOUR big games, and with a sprinkle of potential greatness throughout the year, that could make this year a significant one in the next-gen era. Hip-Hop Wired decided to comprise a list of the games WE (keyword WE) are excited to play on our PS5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch. So if you have an...
Nike’s NBA All-Star 2022 Uniforms Celebrate NBA’s 75th Anniversary & City of Cleveland
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NIKE / NIke The NBA All-Star starters have been announced, so of course, the uniforms to be donned by your favorite pros have as well. Nike NBA All-Star 2022 uniforms will be performing double duty as they pay homage to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary along with the host city of Cleveland. Source: NIKE / NIke While NIKE, Inc. is holding down the uniforms overall, each of its brands—Nike, Jordan Brand and Converse— will deliver for specific games. Jordan Brand will handle the kits for the NBA All Star Game proper, and its typography is a nod to Cleveland’s bridges and its aesthetics are a tribute to uniforms from the 80’s and 90’s. The silver, blue and red colors are a call out to the NBA logo’s 75th anniversary design. Nike handles the Clorox Rising Stars unif...
Twitter Puts On Their Capes To Defend Bow Wow After Tweet Asks Users To Name 3 of His Songs
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Prince Williams / Getty When it comes to Bow Wow, aka Shad Moss, he’s usually the butt of the jokes on social media, BUT this time, Twitter is putting on their capes for the Hip-Hop star. You can clown Bow Wow for all of the ridiculousness he may get involved in sometimes, but one thing you can’t take from him is the hits he has produced. On Twitter, the no.1 place for social discourse, a user shared a ridiculous tweet stating, “imagine a n***a puts a gun to your head and tells you to name 3 bow wow songs.” We can name quite a few off the top of our heads here, “Bounce With Me,” “Like You,” “BasketBall,” “Outta My System,” the man has got a plethora of hits. As expected, he got flamed in the quote retweets with numerous followers telling him to put ...
HHW Gaming: EA Reportedly Considering Making ‘Battlefield 2042’ Free-To-Play, Gamers Want A Refund
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: EA / DICE Could EA and DICE’s shooter Battlefield 2042 become free-to-play? A new report suggests that might be the case, and gamers who paid for the game when it launched are not happy about that. Battlefield 2042 might go down in history as one of the biggest flops in video game history. Per VG247, an insider from EA claims that the game’s developer DICE is considering going the free-to-play route. The drastic move is a product of the game flopping tremendously after it launched back in November. The game looked promising based on the trailers that we saw ahead of the game’s release. Battlefield 2042 arrived plagued with the issues that thankfully have been addressed through many patches, but that’s not stopping the mass exodus of players due to a...
HHW Gaming Review: ‘Rainbow Six Extraction’ Is An Enjoybale Co-Op Experience With Some Grind Issues
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ubisoft / Rainbow Six Extraction Ubisoft hopes the idea of adding an alien threat in Rainbow Six Extraction with some tweaks will breathe new energy into its famed Rainbow Six video game franchise, and for the most part, it does. Step into our review. Rainbow Six Extraction, formally known as Rainbow Six Quarantine when it was announced at E3 2019, didn’t immediately blow gamers away. Hell, many of us thought this was just some DLC coming to Rainbow Six Siege until we all learned Ubisoft revealed it would be a standalone title. Initially, the game saw the human race dealing with a virus, but due to VERY OBVIOUS reasons, the game’s developers changed the name and the game’s theme. Source: Ubisoft / Rainbow Six Extraction In Rainbow Six, Extraction players ...
HHW Gaming: Gamers React To Microsoft’s Purchase of Activision Blizzard, Wonder if ‘COD’s Time On PlayStation Is Done
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: NurPhoto / Getty If you haven’t heard, Microsoft has purchased Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, setting off a megaton bomb in the video game world. The reactions and hot takes are pouring in after Xbox CEO Phil Spencer announced that the company acquired Activision Blizzard at the top of the morning. With the deal now agreed to, that means Microsoft now owns Beenox, Demonware, Digital Legends, High Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, King, Major League Gaming, Radical Entertainment, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, Toys for Bob, Treyarch, and every team across Activision Blizzard. The big question is whether Activision games like Call of Duty, which PlayStation owners have enjoyed for years, will become an Xbox exclusive? PlayStation owners can br...
Kanye West Seen On A Date With Actress Julia Fox, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Victor Boyko / Getty As Kim Kardashian publicly moves on with new beau, Pete Davidson, Kanye West continues to try out new girlfriends, allegedly. Over the weekend, buzz grew that he and actress Julia Fox were giving it a go when the two were spotted getting familiar at a restaurant in Miami. According to TMZ, Yeezy and Fox were spotted at the Carbone restaurant in Miami this past Saturday night and though social media wasn’t impressed with Ye’s latest female associate, it seems like things aren’t as serious as many believed they might be. PageSix is now reporting that Julia Fox has doubts that she and Ye will be linking up a second time as she told a paparazzo “I don’t know” when asked if she and Kanye would be going on another date together. Given Kanye...
Jig Alert: King James “Best Signature Shoe, The Nike LeBron 9 ‘Watch The Throne’ Reportedly Dropping This Week
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike / Nike LeBron 9 “Watch The Throne” One of Los Angeles Lakers’ superstar LeBron James‘ most sought-after kicks will finally be available to the public. Per Highsnobiety, the Nike LeBron 9 “Watch The Throne” retro will be available to the general public for the first time ever on January 6. If you’re eager to get your hands on the sneakers right now, you can enter a draw via END before embarking on a mission to secure a pair via select retailers like AFEW, BSTN. There is no word if the kicks will land on SNKRS, but we won’t be surprised if Nike hits us with a shock drop. Regarded as one of LeBron’s most popular kicks, the LeBron 9 “Watch The Throne” retro takes its cues from the 2011 classic JAY-Z and Kanye West album of the same name. The kicks f...
Reebok & Cardi B Drop New ‘Let Me Be…In My World Nighttime’ Collection
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Reebok / Reebok Cardi B may not be dropping new music anytime soon, but she sure as hell is dropping new paraphernalia (no, not drugs). Source: Reebok / Reebok Today (Dec. 29), the latest Reebok/Cardi B collection will be dropping for her hardcore Stans dubbed the Let Me Be…In My World Nighttime and the collection will consist of sneakers, tight-fitted crops and tights and even oversized cargo pants for the block huggers. The kicks will come in four new metallic color ways including black, blue, green, and brown with a black suede and orange midsole silhouette rounding out the collection. The apparel will be available in both children and adult sizes going from 2XS all the way up to 4XL for the heavy set fans who want to support their “Bodak Yellow” ...
5 Anti-Vax Protestors Arrested After Storming NYC Burger King, Twitter Jokes They Can’t Have It Their Way
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: NurPhoto / Getty Five anti-vaxxers decided a whopper and fries is worth going to jail over. Monday night (Dec.27), five maskless individuals were filmed storming into a Brooklyn Burger King location to protest New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The individuals can be seen in the video screaming at employees who refused to serve them at the fast-food restaurant in Downtown Brooklyn. According to NYC’s mandates, patrons must show proof of vaccination to dine indoors. The NYPD was eventually called after the group of bozos repeatedly refused to leave. Mitchell Bosch, 41, one of the five “protestors” taken into police custody, has a history of protesting food establishments enforcing the law that protects workers and customers. Bosch was already...
Twitter Is Flaming Ari Fletcher, Accusses Her of Downplaying Domestic Violence
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Prince Williams / Getty Ari Fletcher is once again trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. Moneybagg Yo’s boo-thang is in hot water on social media after a clip from an interview from the Don’t Call Me A White Girl podcast went viral. In the clip, Fletcher spoke about her, and the “Wockesha” rapper learning to communicate with each other despite her past volatility when they first got together in 2019. The conversation shifted to how Fletcher would want Moneybagg Yo to respond to the threat of her leaving him. She jokingly said, “Like, pull your gun out and show me like, ‘B*tch leave. I wish you would walk out the door.” “I’m going to just sit down because I got a son, and I’m not trying to die – I got a son. So I’m only staying because I got...
Kim Kardashian Posts ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Spoilers On Her IG, Social Media Comes For Her Jugular
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Alberto Rodriguez/E! Entertainment / Getty Kim Kardashian became the villain to comic book enthusiasts after she spoiled 2021’s biggest blockbuster.For the most part, Kim Kardashian has managed to stay out of the crosshairs of comic book fanboys as they have more pending matters to attend to, such as cosplay events and objecting to movie castings of their favorite comic book characters. That all changed once she decided to take it upon herself to spoil the latest Spider-Man film and, in doing so, summoned the wrath of the dark corners of the fanboy internets. On Monday night (December 27), Kim Kardashian viewed Spider-Man: No Way Home in her private home theater (rich wypipo privilege even though she’s Arminian-American) and had the pornstar audacit...
