Concluding our look at the best video game scores the medium has to offer.
Tag: gaming
Composed for Play: 11 of the Greatest Video Game Soundtracks Ever Made
Part one of our look at the boundless world of game music.
Grand Thrash Auto: Ria Wigley (Oriza, Karnstein)
From iconic 2D classics to huge modern titles, metal musician and game developer Ria discusses her top games of all time.
Night in the Woods: Finding Meaning in a Universe Without Any
An exploration of young adulthood that embraces the power of life’s small moments.
Outer Wilds Explores the Pain of Hope in a Clockwork Solar System
Why does Mobius Digital’s 22 minute loop still feel like magic?
Playing the Enemy: Shifting Perspectives in The Last Of Us
How The Last Of Us and its sequel ask us to question our allegiances.
The Art of Magic: The Gathering / Nils Hamm
Exploring the game’s master of graveyards.
Kentucky Route Zero and the Desperate Reality of Liminality
Interrogating the in-between of Cardboard Computer’s hazy stories.
Cloudpunk and the Illusion of Choice
The city of Nivalis’ staggering size and vivid omnipresence hammer home the game’s overarching feeling of tragedy, of a city in which nothing seems to be going right.
Grim Fandango Is a Perfect Fusion of Film Noir and Detective Novel
A bridge between the analogue past and the digital future, and an example of the homage bettering the original.