Lots of video game soundtracks are available on YouTube, and you can always just listen to the music by playing the game itself. But owning the soundtrack to your favorite game means you can play the ...

You can forget a game’s plot faster than you’d like to admit. The villain’s motive gets fuzzy, the kingdom’s latest crisis starts blending into every other kingdom crisis, and that side character you ...

Video games easily suck us into the vortex of the virtual world, and it can be difficult not to get enthralled in a game for hours on end. There's so much about these games that captivates players, ...

Music is an essential part of video games now. And as the video game market becomes populated with new releases, developers ...

I enjoy games that make me think, which means I often find myself pausing — not literally pressing pause, but simply staying still — to consider what I need to do next. Those are the moments, like ...

That’s how Alpha Chrome Yayo, the composer behind the jazzy, night drive vibes of Promise Mascot Agency’s soundtrack, describes the online music store Bandcamp. He speaks of it fondly, a common ...

The directors of All Things Considered are the people who choose much of the music you hear on the show. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with director Vincent Acovino about video game music. As we wind down ...

You may think it odd, dedicating a festival to live music that isn’t, really, designed to be played live. Video game, film, and TV music, by definition, is designed to be recorded under very strict ...

Nadia Grace Mullings is a contributor and journalist for Game Rant, and has been a big fan of video gaming from a young age. Strong first impressions included point-and-click games on an old PC (way ...

From the rising triumph of Snake Eater to the emotional heft of Unshaken in Red Dead Redemption 2, video game music has progressed far beyond the wildest dreams of the bleep and bloop pioneers. But a ...

They've got just one half-day session to record 32 minutes of music for the new James Bond video game, 007 First Light. And that means four hours of non-stop puffing and blowing. "It's mostly action ...