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Let's give a man his dues! For over a decade now, there's been a kinda-famous song about Zelda on the internet that many people believe was written and performed by System of a Down. More »
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Soulful songstress Lana Del Rey made a splash last year with her single "Video Games", a song that repeated the term 'video games' several times, causing many gamers to fall instantly in love despite the games in question being used as an example of how routine her once passionate relationship had become. The video was lovely, but it lacked a certain something: Actual video games. More »
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Ah, Magical Sound Shower. Could there be a better soundtrack for driving around a two-dimensional landscape in an expensive car with a sexy lady beside you? More »
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Earlier this month, it was revealed that a Swedish "bishounen" (beautiful young boy) named "Yohio" will be making his debut in Japan this spring. More »
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Hey, why should indie game developers get to have all the bundling fun? Game composers should get to experience the joy of bundling too. I'm glad to see that they finally are. More »
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After I posted Sole's new video yesterday, I was inundated with emails from people saying "OH YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THIS MUSIC VIDEO THAT'S LIKE A VIDEO GAME". Most of them were rubbish, but this one, from Polinski, was great. More »
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Rapper Sole, who we've featured once or twice here on Kotaku before, has a new video out with his Skyrider Band (pictured above), and it's one that might be right inside a gamer's wheelhouse. More »
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However you define "Nerdcore," I'd say that once a guy is dropping rhymes about the ins and outs of Mass Effect, he probably qualifies. But let's not get caught up in labels—these tracks, which premiered over at Destructoid, are a goofy good time. More »
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Game music can show up in the most random places. Rarely, however, does it involve rock bands in bad wigs. More »
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As a fierce, cold land of rippling muscles and town guards who speak like Col. John Matrix, Skyrim has always struck me as a kind of ancestral home for hard rock, much in the same way Iceland is where the Supreme Council of Metal is seated. That makes this rock remix of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim especially appropriate. More »
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I adore the music to PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies. I bought the soundtrack from composer Laura Shigihara, and I still listen to it pretty regularly. More »
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Indie alt-rocker Ryan Adams is many things: Reformed troublemaker, husband to Mandy Moore, provocative interviewee, and damned good songwriter. More »
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Me and You, by Nero, is kinda famous right now as it's been used as the jingle for the Beats by Dr. Dre line of gear at Best Buy. More »
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Last month Blizzard announced that it's annual fan convention would be skipping a year, returning in 2012 so the developer can focus on things like developing games. Some fans took this well. The Elysiam World of Warcraft guild on the U.S. Shadowmoon server took to song. More »
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Years of playing games like the original Lumines, Harmonix's Frequency, or Squid in a Box's PC shooter Waves have left me with a voracious appetite for electronic music, which is why the 34 tracks included in Ubisoft's Lumines Electronic Symphony have me drooling. More »
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Chinese songstress Yang Yuying couldn't have chosen a better video game to accompany a live performance of her song "I'll Be Waiting For You In The Spring" than ThatGameCompany's PlayStation Network masterpiece Flower, though she probably should have asked permission first. More »
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In this video, you will see a man sit down to play some Mega Man II. You'll also see a band. What you should then notice is everything getting kind of awesome. More »
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You've already seen a man clone himself and play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the violin. More »
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It's that time again. Time for Soundtrack. This morning, we have a wonderful tune from Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter. More »
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Call me out of touch, but I can think of nothing I'd rather go for than three classics tracks from rockers Hall & Oates coming to Rock Band on January 10. More »
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It's 2012, which means that it's not even The Legend of Zelda's 25th Anniversary any more. But that's not stopping Nintendo from extending the tour that celebrates the music of their long-lived adventure RPG franchise. More »
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One day, I'm going to make a science-fiction movie. More »
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YouTube user Jason Yang cloned himself for one very special reason: to play beautiful Skyrim music to you. That's so nice! More »
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Because Rock Band's existing library just isn't punishing enough, Harmonix will be releasing Rush's epic 2112 as downloadable content for the game over the next week. More »
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A decade and a half ago a sublime blend of Eastern role-playing and Wild Western adventure was released in Japan. Today the talented folks at OC Remix celebrate that release with a free album featuring more than four hours of expertly twisted tunes from the soundtrack of the original Wild Arms. More »
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Eclectic Australian outfit Regurgitator have been around since the mid-90's, and in that time they've tried their hand at just about every popular genre of music you can think of. More »
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Retro game lyricist Brentalfloss rings in the holiday season with a musical tribute to the only Super Nintendo game to come bundled with a mouse and a mouse pad. Take that, uDraw! More »
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Guess what, reader people! It's that time again. Time to ditch the controllers for tunes. Time for Soundtrack. More »
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Porno Graffitti is a Japanese band—a Japanese band I don't really care for. They're okay! Nonetheless, the group is singing the flick's theme, dubbed "2012 Spark". More »
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It's that time of night again. That time when we gather around and sing songs together. Yes, together. It's time for Soundtrack. More »
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The best thing about the first two Tony Hawk games, better than the games themselves, were their soundtracks. They were amazing. If you were hoping some of those standout tracks would be in the upcoming HD re-release, though, don't get your hopes up. More »
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Welcome to Soundtrack, where we take a break from news and not-news to relax with some tunes and...you know what, fuck it. We're not relaxing tonight. Not one bit. More »
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The Video Game Music Choir is a Boston based group that exclusively sings video game music . With arrangements from Portal, Uncharted, and Sonic Adventure 2, they have a little bit of something for everybody. More »
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Oh hey, there's a new Chocobo song in Final Fantasy XIII-2! I do so love hearing the new arrangements of Nobuo Uematsu's whimsical theme that arrive with each new iteration of the series. Let's give it a listen! Oh. Oh god. More »
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a great game with a great world and great music. More »
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I liked jazz growing up, but some of the intricacies of a tune's "pocket" were lost on me. I was young then, and foolish, and I hadn't yet heard Meshell Ndegeocello (whose official website no longer refers to her as Me'Shell Ndegéocello). But then I finally discovered her, and in so doing discovered what groove really was. And now, so can you! More »
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Ever since Epic's Gears of War plucked heartstrings with a cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" game creators have been attempting to recreate that magic, forging an emotional bond between gamers and game through evocative music. Let's see how good a job Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and BioShock Infinite did of it with their respective Spike VGA Awards debut trailers. More »
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For the next 7:06, if you have any appreciation of how hard it is to come up with rhyming verses off the top of your head, any at all, prepare to be blown away. More »
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What happens when 20 top video game music remixers take on 18 of the biggest, baddest bosses ever committed to CD or cartridge? That would be OC Remix's 30th free album, BadAss: Boss Themes. More »
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It's that time of the day (night?). Time for Soundtrack. Put down those controllers and perk up those ears. More »
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