Nintendo has announced their own music streaming service. Named Nintendo Music, the service is exclusive to NSO subscribers.
Read More »Full Astro Bot OST available now on music services
With Astro Bot officially having been out for a month now, the team at Asobi have published the game’s full OST to YouTube, Spotify and more.
Read More »Konami releases over 187 tracks from upcoming Silent Hill 2 Remake
Ahead of the official launch of the Silent Hill 2 Remake, Konami have released almost 200 tracks from the upcoming game., all composed by Akira Yamaoka.
Read More »Jedi: Survivor’s complete 1444-paged sheet music published online
A video game’s soundtrack is just as important as the game itself in many instances. Despite this, developers rarely give it the flowers it deserves – with many publishers just now beginning to release their game soundtracks to music services. It therefore comes as a massive yet welcome surprise to …
Read More »Bandai Namco launches official video game OST YouTube channel
The music industry is notorious for having rather harsh copyright laws with a relatively recent example seeing Nintendo forcefully remove over 1000 songs from YouTube in 2022. Fortunately not every company takes this approach as we saw with Square Enix uploading over 5500 songs to its YouTube channel last year. …
Read More »Kingdom Hearts soundtracks finally added to music streaming services
For more than two decades the Kingdom Hearts series has gifted fans with countless beloved songs. Unfortunately, as with many video game OSTs those paying for premium music streaming services were unable to listen to any of it – having to resort to fan covers of the iconic soundtrack. Finally …
Read More »Halo composer settles lawsuit against Microsoft
Marty O’Donnell, best known for his work as a composer at Bungie in the days of Halo, and eventually, the early days of Destiny, filed a lawsuit against Microsoft two years ago. O’Donnell and fellow composer, Mike Salvatori, claimed that Microsoft owes the pair royalties dating back 20 years. Now, …
Read More »5500 classic Square Enix songs officially added to YouTube
The music industry is notorious for having rather harsh copyright laws with a recent example seeing Nintendo forcefully remove over 1000 songs from YouTube. Fortunately not every company takes this approach, as Square Enix has now uploaded over 5000 songs to YouTube for all to enjoy for free. In late …
Read More »ICO celebrates 20th anniversary with remastered soundtrack
ICO is one of the most well-regarded PlayStation 2 games of all time, with the console exclusive seeing long-term influence while elevating games in new ways. The 6th of December marked the ICOnic game’s 20th anniversary, and in celebration, the title’s emotional and evocative soundtrack has now been remastered. As …
Read More »Rockstar left unlicensed music, Hot Coffee mod and more in GTA trilogy files
Since launch, the Grand Theft Auto ‘Definitive Edition' trilogy has been offline on PC, with Rockstar pausing sales of the PC version and taking its launcher down for maintenance. Dataminers may have discovered why the Rockstar Launcher has been offline for so long, as lengthy developer notes, unlicensed music tracks …
Read More »What’s your favourite gaming soundtrack?
As someone who spends a lot of time writing while trying not to be distracted by all the wonders of the internet, I love a good video game soundtrack. They play along nicely in the background while I work, just as when I game, keeping me immersed, focused and on …
Read More »Creative Assembly on making Alien: Isolation sound authentic
Whatever your thoughts on Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines, one thing they did get right with it, was the sounds of the assault rifles and that's commendable, even if the rest of the game isn't. And that's because sound in the Alien universe is incredibly important. The original film's orchestral score …
Read More »Rockstar releases GTAV soundtrack
Rockstar isn't done making money just yet, after earning more than $1 billion in its first week and making Grand Theft Auto V the fastest selling game of all time, its only right to release the soundtrack. ‘The Music of Grand Theft Auto V Collection' spans across three albums with …
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