At the Microsoft gaming showcase tonight, I finished up a session of Splinter Cell Conviction and ran into my one-time gaming rival Soulja Boy. He was on his way to play Halo 3 ODST. He wants to set up a rematch: Street Fighter IV maybe. He’s done with Geometry Wars.
Soulja Boy’s new song “Grind On” makes its video debut by way of his Xbox 360 Avatar. As horrible as it is for me to say this, I think it’s actually a semi-catchy song.
Yeah, we’ve really shown the Totilo love round here, but he accepted Soulja Boy’s month-old call-out to face him online, and the advice from Cliffy B and Bungie is too priceless not to share.
Who said bragging on the internet never got you anywhere? Rapper Soulja Boy has revealed that his challenge to Xbox 360 owners led directly to the creation of a Soulja Boy video game.
When not making music and making fun of Ice-T, hip-hopper Soulja Boy has a dream: He’d like to go to college. And that’s a very admirable dream! Thing is, he’s a superstar right now so he’d cause a big ruckus if he went college. People would bug him while he’s trying to study and stuff. Guess he should wait for when he’s, you know, not famous anymore.
Interesting though to note that Soulja Boy says he wanted to be a flash animator and is interested in getting in the game industry. Hey, why not?! This comes after Soulja Boy gave these insights on Xbox title Braid: “for people who smoke or people drink like if you drink beer and you get drunk or you smoke weed and you get high and you just… anything, like you just get be gettin’ fucked up.” Which was somewhere along the same lines of our review. Personally, we think it’s great that even after becoming a successful recording artist Soulja Boy is thinking about college and education. Good for him.
Soulja Boy Wants To Make Video Games [AnalogHype via Go Nintendo]
Via Reader Carlos T., here’s Soulja Boy coppin’ to the hoax. He never had an Xbox 360 Sidekick. Full confession comes at timestamp 1:00 of the above video.
Caution, the whole thing looks like it’s an ad for some Tony Hawk-branded Sidekick whateverthhell. Yay. We all got strung along for a free ad, but a hip-hop artist sold out to carry water for a skateboarder, so, that takes some of the sting out of being played like a fiddle for viral marketing. Twice.
Soulja Boy’s “Tony Hawk Special Edition Sidekick LX [YouTube]
