{"id":351602,"date":"2026-06-08T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351602\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:07:10","slug":"snoop-dogg-reveals-tupac-will-feature-in-new-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351602\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg reveals Tupac will feature in new video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dolby Theatre hosts the Academy Awards, but at Friday\u2019s \u201cSummer Game Fest\u201d the A-list stars were video game developers.<\/p>\n<p>At Summer Game Fest \u2014 founded by\u00a0Geoff Keighley, who\u2019s also behind The Game Awards, known as the \u201cOscars of Gaming\u201d \u2014 one excited fan breezed right past Grammy-winner\u00a0Zedd, instead stopping to ask \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d creator\u00a0Patrice D\u00e9silets\u00a0for a photo.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8980793\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/snoop-dogg-performs-live-grand-130064413.jpg\" alt=\"Snoop Dogg performing at the grand opening of the Long Beach Amphitheater.\" class=\"wp-image-8980793\"  \/>Snoop Dogg performs live at the grand opening of the Long Beach Amphitheater at Long Beach Amphitheater on June 06, 2026 in Long Beach, California.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Snoop Dogg\u00a0made a surprise appearance in support of \u201cStranger Than Heaven,\u201d an upcoming music-infused adventure game from Sega and RGG in which he\u2019s featured alongside singer\u00a0Tori Kelly\u00a0and \u2013 surprise! \u2013 Tupac Shakur?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tupac estate and my son and myself worked very closely together. It just made sense to put him in this game, because his likeness and his spirit still lives on,\u201d Snoop told the crowd to rapturous applause. He also gave an update on his own studio, Death Row Games, promising a hip-hop gaming universe with further announcements in coming months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity\u201d star\u00a0Yvette Nicole Brown\u00a0appeared with \u201cYellowjackets\u201d star\u00a0Liv Hewson\u00a0to talk up their new animated series \u201cAmong Us,\u201d based on the viral game of the same name that was featured in a memorable \u201cKnives Out: Glass Onion\u201d scene. (Can you get more meta?)<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.70410156;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8980794\" width=\"415\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1996-lawyer-one-las-vegas-61821722.jpg\" alt=\"Tupac Shakur looking away, wearing a white shirt and black blazer.\" class=\"wp-image-8980794\"  \/>Tupac Shakur seen in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. AP<\/p>\n<p>Among the biggest game announcements made during SGF were a \u201cResident Evil Veronica\u201d remake, \u201cTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin\u201d (the first project from Paramount Skydance\u2019s combined in-house studio) and \u201cFinal Fantasy VII: Revelation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolby Theatre hosts the Academy Awards, but at Friday\u2019s \u201cSummer Game Fest\u201d the A-list stars were video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3415,7,131,133,132,91617],"class_list":["post-351602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-awards","tag-california","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-page-six-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}