CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Video Game Symphony (VSG) is returning to Severance Music Center, this time with a program spanning generations of gaming, from Nintendo favorites to recent blockbuster hits. VSG ...

The development of video game music is partly a story of changing technology. In a trip to Japan with Radio 3’s Music Matters ...

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 ...

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 ...

Composer Grant Kirkhope hit all the right notes on this one.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The game, which was released on Sept. 6, 2023, allows players to build their own character and spacecraft, travel to any one of a thousand or more planets and follow multiple story arcs. The ...

A new music streaming app has entered the market. It's called Nintendo Music — and on it, you can listen to dozens of hours of music from games like Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong. The app has had more ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. The snowballing intersection of music ...

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 ...