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- Malcolm: it's a viral gang shooter. It's going six dollars called Hood Warfare Two. Right. And so for those of you that aren't familiar with it, Hood Warfare Two, it's an independently produced Call of Duty s style first person shooter and it's gaining a lot of traction online after debut I'm sorry, debuting on the PC digital distribution platform Steam, which is where a lot of people like download and play and and kind of like use you know, PC games. so it was released on October eighth. trended, got a lot of commentary, social media, and like a lot of people. There's six dollars, so quite a few people play. I, you know, bought it and played it. So with the there's a twenty there's been a 24 hour peak of eleven thousand seven hundred forty-two players. so it's not the most popular game ever, but like it's still that's a ton of people to be playing at the same time. now you may be able to kind of like tell just from like the title of the game, that it's not just, you know. Yeah, it's a it's a shooter game, but there are obviously we're we're covering it for another reason. so yeah, right. So more and we'll we can actually show a couple clips maybe to give some folks some context about like what this looks like and and and what we're exactly talking about. So give you guys some more background, it's a multiplayer first person shooter and it's a sequel to the first game based in twenty twenty three. Now it is set in the streets of Chicago and it sees rival gangs vying for control of turf. So there's a turf war game mode and the game also closed like Things like Team Deathmatch, free-for-all mode, capture the flag. And so like some of the names of the like team deathmatch is called Gangbang, Capture the F Flag is called Hit a Lick. And then there's a bomb diffusal mode called Destroy the Block and a Kill Confirm mode named Chain Snatch. So like you guys can kind of see from these the titles of the the game modes and just like the the like the type of like game like period, like kind of like what it is. It's it's obviously a ton of exaggerated gang stereotypes. different maps, including the suburbs, mall, the hood or I guess trench areas of of of you know, Chicago. and so like the actual right, and so like the people that made the game, it was developed by Trap Star Games, right? there isn't more information directly available from the developer's website. but most of the discourse online we've seen is that these were definitely is a Pretty good chance that these were made by like a couple white guy developers. and so there's not really much public information about the developers, where they're based, who they are. and yes, like I said, there's obviously been a ton of criticism, you know, obviously to his depiction of stereotypes, producing all black communities in Chicago, because Chicago is a lot more than just, you know, hood areas or like gang violence. So the game pretty much makes all of Chicago look like. they've kind of reduced it to just like these black communities, these low income black communities, that are focused on gang violence and then exaggerated humor about street culture. yeah, it's like I say they're hiding behind this label Trap Star Games.