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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere between the bleeps of Pac-Man and the orchestral swells of The Last of Us, video game music stopped being ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was fairly common for JRPGs on the PS1 to find a way to mash up classic, SNES-era orchestration with more modern sounds.

Billboard Japan spoke with Norihiro Fukuda and Natsuko Kaneko about Bandai Namco Game Music, the music label operated by the ...

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 ...

A game soundtrack can have a powerful impact on our gaming experiences. We, as gamers, often hear a single chord and are instantly transported to a specific memory. Video game soundtracks harbor a lot ...

Music in video games offer the perfect backdrop for action, where players can tune out from the real world and immerse themselves in a different experience entirely. Nowadays, video games contain ...