Digital Dreams Entertainment announced that Gerard “HipHopGamer” Williams will be an ambassador of over-the-top, blood-soaked arcade-style football game, Mutant Football League 2.
HipHopGamer and his “Get Money Gamers” squad are now available as a playable team in a free content update for Mutant Football League 2 on consoles and PC.
As the ultimate barrier-breaker who’s fused hip-hop and gaming culture like no one else, Gerard Williams brings even more chaos to Mutant Football League 2’s gridiron. Leading the charge as quarterback, he and his squad join the game, complete with Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., New York community leaders, and members of Williams’ youth outreach initiatives as additional members — making this team as inspiring as it is unstoppable.
An exclusive track produced by HipHopGamer himself serves as the team’s anthem, pumping through the arena whenever the Get Money Gamers take the field. And I would note that HipHopGamer will be one of our emcees for GamesBeat Summit 2026 in Los Angeles on May 18-19.
Digital Dreams Entertainment is a studio founded by veterans behind SSX on Tour, FIFA Street 2, Need for Speed: Pro-Street, and Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes.
In addition to joining Mutant Football League 2 as an in-game character, Williams will additionally incorporate the game (with child-safety features enabled) into his PlayMakers educational gaming program, where kids can earn money, learn, and play by reviewing and reporting on games.
PlayMakers is a first-of-its-kind initiative that transforms gaming into a classroom tool for empowerment. The program supports schools from Kindergarten and up in New York City, including the Denzel Washington School for the Arts in Mount Vernon. Watch the Denzel Washington and HipHopGamer PlayMakers Assembly here.
“The moment I met Gerard and learned that the original Mutant League Football held a special place in his heart, I knew that we needed to work together,” said Michael Mendheim, creative director of Mutant Football League 2, in a statement.
He added, “His charisma and talent are only matched by his altruistic nature, bringing the love of gaming, education, and hip hop to underserved communities throughout New York and globally online. As an ambassador for Mutant Football League 2, we’re not only excited to have him and the Get Money Gamers crew featured in the game, but for the game to bring fun and opportunity to kids supported by the PlayMakers educational gaming program.”
“The original Mutant League Football is an important game to me, having grown up playing it with my grandmother. And as a big fan of NBA Jam back in the day and that style of crazy arcade sports games that we don’t see anymore, I was like ‘we’re finally back,’” said Williams, in a statement. “The explosive gameplay, dirty tricks, environmental damage — Mutant Football League 2 is so wild that I had to be a part of it, and I’m so thankful to be in the game.”
Mutant Football League 2 is the “anti-Madden” that blends the pick-up-and-play accessibility of arcade sports games with strategic depth and a buttload of monstrous mayhem.
Teams of Mutated Super-Humans, Monstrous Orcs, Skeletal Deadheads, and Armored BruiserBots are pit against each other in fantastical arenas packed with deadly traps and sinister hazards like buzzsaws and giant mutant worms.
The right team is your ticket to gridiron glory; it’s up to you to show the world your prowess and become a true MFL legend. Under your guidance, these mutants will rise from scrubs to legends, crushing the competition with style and savagery across Mutant Football League 2’s single-player Season, Dynasty Supreme franchise mode, and online multiplayer. All with legendary voice actor Tim Kitzrow (Boomshakalaka) calling the insane but hilarious play-by-play.
Mutant Football League 2 is available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows PC via Steam for $30.
Coming together
Williams and Mendheim met through an intro from a PR firm. Mendheim said he was focused on getting the new game, Mutant Football League 2, out the door in the second half of 2025.
“I’m in the foxhole trying to get this product out the door as we have a very small team,” Mendheim said.
Then his marketing team noted that Gerard used to play the game with his grandmother. And they suggested a meeting.
“Gerard is just this radiant positivity,” Mendheim said. “He just instantly made the whole day better.”
They hit it off. Williams said he lives to serve and that character is currency. They pledged to help each other, and Mendheim said, “He could reciprocate by bringing culture into the Mutant Football League. I wanted to expand the reach of Mutant Football League 2 and get some authenticity into it. This man right here is the perfect vehicle to do that.”
“Yo, this joint has always been fired. You know. I’ve always been a fan of [The Mutant Football League],” said Williams, in an interview with GamesBeat.
Getting into the game
They talked about additional possibilities of working together and building something together. As a young HipHopGamer, Williams played the original Mutant Football League (from 1993) on a Sega Genesis with his grandmother, who taught him how to play games.
“We talk of what we could build and stuff like that. We had a great meeting and everything. It was phenomenal. Yo, like, take my number,” Williams said. “Let’s stay in touch. And I was telling them a lot of the things that I do with the schools and the partnerships that I got, and how I leverage gaming in the schools and stuff. And I was telling them that there’s so much more that we can do.”
Williams pointed out he’s a character in different video games and he makes songs for games as well.
“Then we put our minds together to get me in the game, the music,” he said. “And it’s a dream come true, a digital dream come true” to be a character in the game.
Mendheim said the team is populating Williams’ friends into the team, including people Williams works with in prison rehabilitation programs where the inmates learn how to play video games.
“This is for people in prison who are trying to get out and make a life for themselves, and it’s for young kids in school that don’t have a lot of hope,” Williams said.
Williams said one teen who won a match was asked if he would give some of his winnings to the losing player. The teen said yes, and then Williams said the reward was that the teen would be put inside the game and be on the Get Money Gamers team.
“He’ll get to see because of his act of kindness, he got himself in a video game,” said Williams.
Because of this work, Williams is a nominee for an NAACP image award, where you can vote for him or others for Outstanding Digital Content Creator for Gaming/Tech.
How the game works
You can play dirty tricks like pulling out a shotgun or pushing others into lava. The game is not really politically correct, but it doesn’t matter what your political persuasion is. It makes fun of everybody, Mendheim said.
“It’s fun first and foremost,” Williams said. “This game brings that back. And it’s streamable.”
The game is similar to the somewhat wacky NFL Blitz. But Mutant Football League 2 is even crazier.
“Our game is deeper than NFL Blitz in terms of strategy and football tactics,” Mendheim said. “We parody NFL stars. So Tom Brady would be Bomb Shady. He could be a skeleton or an orc or a mutant human or a robot. We have all kinds of character species.”
The New York Giants are the New York Tyrants. The Chicago Bears on the Midway Mutants.
“The whole thing takes place in the post-apocalypse, after society has collapsed and it got rebuilt, and they use these games in place of war. So every country has their teams, and these are like how the public and governments wage wars through these games. So the football fields are like battlefields, yeah. And every field is different, different hazards,” Mendheim said. “Some have buzz saws, landmines. Some have worms that come out and eat your guys. Every stadium is unique. And then you have dirty tricks. And these are special plays, like timeouts. You just get a very few of them, and they’re tactical nukes. One is a shotgun. Another is a bomb you throw.”
You manage your team. If you lose your star players to bombs and such, your team gets significantly worse.
“We offset our violence with a lot of humor,” Mendheim said. “You can laugh your ass off because it’s really funny.”
Mendheim is pleased with the game results so far. It released in December. Royalty reports aren’t in yet, but the game is expected to have steady revenue, rather than a burst at the start, he said.
“I think our launch was reasonable,” he said. “We’re a small indie develop with six people making this game.”
Mutant Football League 2 predicts the winner of Mayhem Bowl LX
As part of its annual tradition, Mutant Football League 2 has unleashed its Mayhem Bowl simulation to predict the outcome of the league’s most violent championship — and this year’s forecast delivers a matchup that should come with a warning label: the Microhard Mutilators versus the Nuked London Hatriots.
The Microhard Mutilators arrive with relentless defensive pressure, brutal efficiency, and a reputation for turning close games into closer games. Across the field stand the Nuked London Hatriots — cold, hungry, and disciplined — built to survive chaos, exploit mistakes, and beat anyone with a losing record.
According to the simulation, this Mayhem Bowl won’t be decided by talent alone. Expect momentum swings, catastrophic injuries, questionable life choices, and at least one moment that makes fans ask, “Was that legal?” (Answer: Not even a little.)
The Mutant Football League is created for entertainment purposes and parody.
Founded in 2010 by industry veterans Michael Mendheim and Maxim Novikov, Digital Dreams Entertainment specializes in bringing arcade sports and classic retro games to life for a new generation on PC and consoles. It is headquartered in Morton Grove, Illinois, with developers in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Digital Dreams Entertainment Inc. is best known for its hit title Mutant Football League, whose sequel launched on December 10, 2025. Its founders had a hand in multiple fan-favorite classics, including Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes, BattleTanx, CrimeCraft, Def Jam Icon, FIFA Street 2, Mutant League Hockey, Need for Speed: Pro-Street, Robocalypse, SSX on Tour, and others.
A long-term outlook
Williams hopes the partnership will last for the long term. Mendheim has invited Williams to join the board of his game studio.
“It’s a partnership locked in for real, and I’m very excited,” he said. “I’m telling everybody right now. This game right here is not just a game. It is a platform. If you got skills out there, if you got talent, this game will also be a pathway for you too.”
Mendheim said the Madden Bowl predicted that the Seattle Seahawks will defeat the New England Patriots 23 to 20.
Williams asked me who I was “calling out” to do battle in Mutant Football League 2. I couldn’t think of anyone, so I said, “Andrew Wilson,” the CEO of Electronic Arts.