So, after recording the podcast (which will be up later today), I sat back down at my desk and prepared to dig into some more Dark Sector. Upon getting my 360 dashboard on, I was greeted with a new contest that I was not prepared to handle at all.
Yes, that’s right, it’s the CHESSMASTER LIVE: HIP-HOP WEEKEND. There’s a free gamer picture, which I was hoping would just be a bishop wearing fat gold ropes, but alas, it’s the logo of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation, which apparently actually exists. As expected, their website features a photo of the RZA holding a wrestling-style championship belt.
Seeing the amazing dashboard graphic left me totally incredulous, and I immediately grabbed a camera to snap off a few shots, just to make sure it was really happening and so I could prove I saw it when people started calling me crazy. I was all prepared to get all snide about it, but between seeing the picture of RZA with that belt and seeing that they’re doing it for the youth, I think I’m going to not just run off at the mouth like a total ass.
What other games do you think would benefit from a Hip-Hop Weekend? Aside from free Method Man skins for TiQal, obviously.
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Hmm… How about Audiosurf? In Halo 3, annoying pre-pubescent kids could be singing Low by Flo Rida.
Haha, a championship like this only comes around every thousand years or so. I would definitely participate in this if I had the XBL game but real, normal chess is good enough for me.
haha what?! Hiphop chess club, let’s checkmate these foolz, yo.
Need podcast pzl.
Chess is Hip-Hop.
You heard it here first on GiantBomb dot com.
Wha………?
Portal, I think, would lend itself favourably to a hip-hop weekend. What with GLaDOS having already treated us to her scintillating robot tones, she must be itching to bust some hot rhymes over a sick beat. And when GLaDOS starts rapping about how she’s gonna do this and do that- dude, unlike 99% of those other story-book gangstas out there, you know she means business.
Psh… What wouldn’t benefit from a “Hip-Hop weekend”?
Knights of the old Republic would rock the hell out of hip hop.
A puzzle game called “Grill’ed” that plays like your typical Bejeweled/Tiqal/Zuma game but consisting of teeth, colored gemstones, platinum, and the enemy - saliva.
Why is that game not made yet?
Scrabble. I can think of a few epic ‘Z’ moves.
Bwhahaha. Best XBL weekend event ever.
Puzzle Quest.
Damn them dungeon lords got tha mad BEEF son
A Hip-Hop Nascar Sprint Cup Weekend. I’m there.
How about a Warhammer Online launch Hip hop weekend? Nothing goes together as well as sweaty nerds and big hip hop guys .
A hip-hop Everyday Shooter weekend would be on the top of my list. Of course, they would have to add online play, but still…
I think everything could benefit from a hip hop weekend, IMO.
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial Hip Hop Weekend would take this world to a new golden age and move humanity up to a new step on the evolutionary ladder!
Soon we will all have flying bicycles!
Where In The World Is Young MC?
Wii Luvz Dominoes!!!
Homie Rollerz
“Where Hip-Hop, Martial Arts and Chess Meet”
Wow. Awesome.
Burnout Hip Hop Live Weekend; featuring guest DJ, Flava Flav. Six new vehicles including a pimped out lowrider, a SUV with tinted glass and spinners and(of course) the famous Cadillac Snoop Deville. Bonus missions available for this weekend only: hydrolics contest(simular to the one in San Andreas), loudest bass contest and drive by sprees.
This is unreal.
Damn pimped chess fo realz dawg.
haha i dnt really talk like that lol
DA MYSTERY OF CHESSBOXIN’!
Rook to B5 playa.
Hip-hop Monopoly. Not very creative, but it’s perfect.
Wu-Tang is for the children, son!
Wu-tang is definitely for the kidz!…
i think NBA live would be good for a hip-hop week…oh nevermind..
Great find, Hip-Hop chess. Sounds like a Ripley’s Believe it or Not episode.
And can’t wait for your podcast!
I saw this on my dashboard as well and was confused
The game of chess is like a sword fight. You must think first, before you move.
Chess is a great game. Hip hop and chess is a very odd duo, but hey if it can bring kids and people in a community together having fun, instead of roaming the streets wild or toking crack pipes I’m all for it.
Those are two things I would never put together…
“This weekend join R. Kelly for a game of ‘Strip Uno: Doo Doo Butter Edition.’”
I approve of this contest.
actually read about this in the Times a while ago. Its a real good thing for the kids. Hearwarming to see RZA giving back to the community.
Imma bust a bishop in yo ass.
Piyotama needs a hiphop weekend. The piyotamas could dress up like rappers and hoes.
XBL…You so crazy!
That is comedy gold. Thanks, I needed that laugh.
Rez, maybe some 50 cent. . .
Wow. I don’t know how to respond to that…
WEAK
It should be Chess Mastah Hip-Hop Wick-End
i have much personality i have a voice thats hitting puberty though
i can’t wait for the podcast!!
Pfft eff that. Viva Pinata Hip Hop Weekend.
where the hell is the podcast yo??
Marble Blast Ultra: 2Pac’s Blast From the Past.
Only open to the US? =(
hell yes!!! chess is so fun!
Who woulda thought that Chessmaster was so trill!!!
Lego Scarface
I think its great. Why is everyone making fun of it? What are you going to make fun of next- Bingo and Cub Scouts?
So let them have a tournament and hopefully everyone has a blast and can ignore all the immature people laughing at them.
Ones that immediately spring to mind:
BATTLEFIELD: MASTER P WEEKEND
For a limited time, all tanks in the game are re-skinned in 24k Gold!
CYPRESS HILL’S SPLIFF ISLAND
You’ll never see those little clouds the same way again…
CONDEMNED: MONEYSHOT
Beat down fools with a wide array of canes, pimp-sticks, jewel-encrusted goblets, and of course, the back of yo’ hand!
PEEZY FIGHTER HD: THE 36 CHAMBERS
Did you notice the article links on their website? One mentions JIMI HENDRIX Liquid Experience Energy Drink as a sponsor for their events (http://www.bravewords.com/news/75090)…..I think that needs to be added your taste-test list!
Let’s put Bad Dudes and Bad Boy records together. Or the obvious Madlibs and Madlib… boom, done.
To Jason:
I think it’s an inspired idea. Bringing games to audiences that they are not traditionally marketed to is the sort of thing you don’t expect from corporate America.
I believe the humor found in it was more because of the picture that the marrying of Hip Hop Culture and the traditionally not-so-cool Chess Club created in our minds, and what other kinds of outrageous pairings we could think of.
LOL!!
That’s about all I can say on this one. LOL
G00seG00se put it best. There is absolutely nothing out there that would not benefit from a hip-hop weekend.
YO, N****, REPRESENT ON DA BOARD! I BE TAKIN IT TO DA STREETS AND KNOCKIN OUT ALL DA ROOKS! YOU AINT GOT NUTTIN!
Reminds me of a D-Boy in The Wire (HBO show) trying to explain Chess to some runners.
Damn, I’d love that image of RZA as my gamer picture.
I like chess but what the?
Crash Bandicoot ! that would be awsome i’d love to see crash in a pimp suit
Hip-Hop… Chess?
Hip… Hop… … Chess?
Oooook then. Well, whatever the kids are into these days.
Hip hop Bioshock all the way. ‘Cause them splicerz be hatin’ son. Gonna get some beez all up in yo’ ass.
Hasn’t anyone seen “Searching for Bobby Fischer”? Watch it and become educated about the many different “sects” within the world of Chess. There is definitely an inner-city style of Chess play that is very fast in nature (speed chess) and highly “stylized” (many African-Americans take ownership of this style). Adding Hip-Hop really isn’t that much of a leap (spicing it up for appeal), and after all didn’t the hook work. Looks to me that many non Hip-Hoppers checked the site out.
Check out the movie though, Lawrence Fishburne plays the speed chess mentor that helps the young prodigy break from the preconceived notions of “how chess is played”, thus liberating his mind to achieve a higher level of play.
Very Bruce Lee/Kung-Fu (the series that is, age showing here) in nature or for the young pups in the pound, very Jedi.
King to Bishop, homeboi!