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Interview: PlayStation’s Principal Composer on live playing vs samples and the future of VGM

Interview: PlayStation’s Principal Composer on ...

Composer and orchestrator Jim Fowler talks about his hopes for an increasingly interactive future for games music, the joys of live instruments on soundtracks and the movement for more VGM on national...

Interview: PlayStation’s Principal Composer on ...

Composer and orchestrator Jim Fowler talks about his hopes for an increasingly interactive future for games music, the joys of live instruments on soundtracks and the movement for more VGM on national...

A brief history of video game music – Part 2: A modern movement

A brief history of video game music – Part 2: A...

Writer Jack Gosling brings us up to the modern day with the conclusion of his brief history of VGM. If you haven't already, check out "Part 1: From ‘bip!’ to...

A brief history of video game music – Part 2: A...

Writer Jack Gosling brings us up to the modern day with the conclusion of his brief history of VGM. If you haven't already, check out "Part 1: From ‘bip!’ to...

A few of our favourite Record Store Day 2017 releases

A few of our favourite Record Store Day 2017 re...

By Thomas Quillfeldt 2017’s Record Store Day came and went (don’t forget, fantastic independent record stores exist for the other 364 days of the year too!) and the Internet erupted...

A few of our favourite Record Store Day 2017 re...

By Thomas Quillfeldt 2017’s Record Store Day came and went (don’t forget, fantastic independent record stores exist for the other 364 days of the year too!) and the Internet erupted...

The Yooka-Laylee composers pick their favourite tunes from the soundtrack

The Yooka-Laylee composers pick their favourite...

Rare-alumni Grant Kirkhope, Steve Burke and David Wise talk us through some of their favourite tunes from Yooka-Laylee. By Thomas Quillfeldt Is it 2017, or really 1997 in disguise? The...

The Yooka-Laylee composers pick their favourite...

Rare-alumni Grant Kirkhope, Steve Burke and David Wise talk us through some of their favourite tunes from Yooka-Laylee. By Thomas Quillfeldt Is it 2017, or really 1997 in disguise? The...

A brief history of video game music – Part 1: From ‘bip!’ to ‘bwomp!’

A brief history of video game music – Part 1: F...

Writer Jack Gosling takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the history of video game music, from the 70s to the early 00s. By Jack Gosling Since the pixelated days of...

A brief history of video game music – Part 1: F...

Writer Jack Gosling takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the history of video game music, from the 70s to the early 00s. By Jack Gosling Since the pixelated days of...

EGX Rezzed 2017 report: Cosmic colourfulness and retro-reinterpretation

EGX Rezzed 2017 report: Cosmic colourfulness an...

We went to Wapping to gawp at great games. By Thomas Quillfeldt Every year, EGX Rezzed comes to London—the smaller, indie-focused sister event to the giant UK games convention, EGX....

EGX Rezzed 2017 report: Cosmic colourfulness an...

We went to Wapping to gawp at great games. By Thomas Quillfeldt Every year, EGX Rezzed comes to London—the smaller, indie-focused sister event to the giant UK games convention, EGX....