Far Cry 5 has been a game full of surprises for me -- some good, some bad, some amazing. I ended up buying it on a whim the night before launch. Despite playing and liking every Far Cry to date (even Primal!) , I just wasn't interested...

Part of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's appeal lies in its rich score and sounds, which bewitch players as they guide Link onwards to face untold dangers. Nintendo Japan have unveiled the official soundtrack release for the title, and its as la...

This Spring, Japan will see the release of an Arranged Soundtrack collection featuring classic tunes from the long-running RPG series, Fire Emblem.The CD, titled Flower of Enchantment, will see memorable tunes from the series recreated inn ...

Creating memorabilia for Shadow of the Colossus has to be something of a double-edged sword. On one hand, there's no shortage of awe-inspiring material to draw from. On the other, Shadow of the Colossus is so revered anything payi...

Sonic Mania's soundtrack is worth celebrating. It really tied the whole game together. As of today, you'll be able to buy the 47-track Selected Edition of the Sonic Mania soundtrack through iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play if you feel so inc...

Play-Asia have now opened pre-orders for the soundtrack album to the Nintendo Switch smash hit, Super Mario Odyssey, which launched in September of last year and shifted Switch consoles by the capload.The Super Mario Odyssey Original Soundt...

For anyone who fancies getting their weekend off to a Super Mario Odyssey-esque bang, good news, as the soundtrack to the Switch mega-hit is coming to iTunes today.Super Mario Odyssey Sound Selection is a 12-track album featuring choice cut...

The marketing hype for Capcom's upcoming adventure title Monster Hunter: World continues, with today's announcement of a soundtrack set, now available for pre-order in Japan.Although there is little more than a teaser image, we do know it w...

Purveyors of vinyl soundtracks iam8bit are to release three new LPs of classic games from British studio Rare. These new releases are next in line after the company's previous records for Perfect Dark and the NES Battletoads title.First up ...

A two-day celebration of video game music is set to take place next year at the UK's National Video Game Arcade in Nottingham.The "All Your Bass" event, which will be held in January 2018, will consist of a series of performances and Q&...

A few weeks back, we reported on some luscious NieR vinyl LPs that were being made available to Japan. Square Enix have now confirmed that the records are available for Western distribution, and pre-orders have gone live.Both the NieR: Auto...

Japan will see stunning vinyl releases for the soundtracks to Cavia's sombre action-RPG NieR and its PlatinumGames sequel NieR: Automata.Each game gets a double vinyl set. The NieR Automata set features 15 tracks, while the NieR (or NieR Ge...

Jean-Francois Freitas' creepy and atmospheric score to Eric Chahi's minimalist adventure game Another World is getting a vinyl release from publisher Black Screen Records.The soundtrack to the 1991 classic (also known as Out of This World) ...

Black Screen Records has announced that it is teaming up with composer Michael Kelly to release the soundtrack to VA-11 HALL-A, hands down one of the best games to come out last year, on vinyl. The limited edition release, due out his summe...

Fine purveyors of video game vinyl and original art; Mondo, have unveiled a selection of Konami-themed items that will be on sale at San Diego Comic-Con next week.An 18x24 poster for hard-as-nails side-scroller Contra, featuring original ar...

Edgar Wright is a director with a specific vision, and it's led him to make some of the funniest, most genre-bending films in the past decade. It's also led him to leave Ant-Man. How do you bounce back from someone not letting you expr...

There was once a time when video game soundtracks weren't fully orchestrated or composed by rock musicians. Technology limited composers to MIDI tunes, so there wasn't a need to call in more "professional" acts to spruce up your game. ID So...

DiRT 4 is still on track for a summer release, Codemasters has let us know. Along with the first "gameplay" trailer below, they have confirmed that June 6 will be race day. The game is speeding to PC, PS4 and Xbox One for $59.99 and it does...

Burned out on Christmas music? We've got you covered! Music and sound design are very important yet underappreciated aspects of game design. I mean, we can't touch, taste, or smell games (yet), so the auditory feedback is half our of experi...

Japanese superstar Utada Hikaru wasn't a hit from the start. Her first album was entirely in English and tanked, but her second album which was in Japanese took off. She speaks and can sing in English fluently, but the work she is best know...

I got an unusual e-mail a few days ago. I'm not especially well versed in the subject matter, but I found it interesting, and hopefully you will too. Some of you might remember Jayson Napolitano, who used to run the "Note Worthy" and "The S...

Ever since the release of Doom back in May, fans have been clamoring for an official soundtrack release. Bethesda was silent on the matter and, oddly, didn't even have a digital version for purchase. People just wanted to rip and tear at th...

Turn 10 Studios has unveiled the soundtrack to Forza Horizon 3 on the world. It contains a whopping 150 songs that range from rock to rap and mostly everything in-between. Along with those tracks comes support for Microsoft's "Groove" servi...

Yet another amazing video game soundtrack is releasing on vinyl. Black Sheet Records, the company responsible for pressing both the Downwell and Velocity soundtracks earlier this year, is producing a pair of gold and yellow vinyl records fo...

When I saw a link to this YouTube upload of the No Man's Sky soundtrack, I had the realization that despite the numerous gameplay videos I had seen of the sci-fi title these past few years, I somehow couldn't recall what its music sounded ...