From licensed tracks to entire albums, well-known bands with legions of fans lent their musical talents to the soundtracks of ...
Long crucial to independent music, Bandcamp is also an important outlet for video game composers to make money off their work ...
Somewhere between the bleeps of Pac-Man and the orchestral swells of The Last of Us, video game music stopped being ...
While gameplay is the most important part of any game, music is an essential part of setting the mood or getting you pumped for the action that's to come. Over the years I've played thousands of games ...
Ominous washes of synth, glints of piano, a mournful melody: “Phenandra Drifts” is perfect scene-setting for a video game ...
James is a writer for GameRant. He fell in love with video games as a child and has yet to recover. He is still obsessed with Ocarina Of Time and regularly lectures people on how Metal Gear Solid ...
Billboard Japan spoke with Norihiro Fukuda and Natsuko Kaneko about Bandai Namco Game Music, the music label operated by the ...
Since the earliest days of gaming, music has helped create a sense of immersion and worldbuilding. From composer Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. theme, to the infectious earworm of Tetris’ “Korobeiniki ...
Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He covers tech and gaming for Lifehacker, and has also written for Digital Trends, EGM, Business Insider, IGN, and more. It can be ...
With October coming to a close, Game of the Year season is nearly upon us. Soon enough, players will be arguing over which of 2025’s games deserves to cement its place in the history books. While that ...
Game music is more important than we ever probably stop to consider. Thebest game soundtracks bring out emotions from us that visual images and pressing X can’t. They give us a frame of reference - ...