Few game soundtracks are flawless: You may have a couple of standout hits, but chances are you're going to have a couple of stinkers as well. One possible exception, however, is Katamari Damacy » 8/02/12 8:30pm 8/02/12 8:30pm.

Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka's » 7/19/12 8:00pm 7/19/12 8:00pm music is infectious. It gets in your blood. Metroid, Tetris, Kid Icarus: if you own a Gameboy, or a Nintendo you've had one of his songs stuck in your head. Possibly for a week.

Some game composers are absolute workhorses. They'll be so prolific in such a short span of time, that you'll almost forget that they did entire soundtracks. Motoi Sakuraba is just such a composer.

The Valkyrie Profile Series, Dark Souls, the Baten Kaitos Games, the Star Ocean Games and every freakin' Tales… » 6/21/12 8:30pm 6/21/12 8:30pm

Everybody loves cowboys. They're as American as apple pie, they're hard boiled gunslingers and most importantly they have some of the best theme songs of any hero you'll meet, hands down.


Today on the Kotaku Mixtape, we're looking at the best music to appear in Wild West video games. From that wackyness of Zan:… » 5/31/12 8:40pm 5/31/12 8:40pm

Growing up, there were certain game composers I was aware of. Uematsu? Check. Koshiro? Check. But Tommy Tallarico wasn't one of them.

A lot of that is because he was a sound designer first, dipping his hands in everything from Prince of Persia to the best of Shiny Entertainment. He also co-founded Videogames… » 5/24/12 7:00pm 5/24/12 7:00pm

Usually, around this time each week, I throw a video playlist together for the Kotaku Mix Tape, but this week I was a little distracted by The Wub Machine. » 5/17/12 8:30pm 5/17/12 8:30pm

Ever since we started Kotaku » 5/03/12 8:30pm 5/03/12 8:30pm Melodic, our own video master Chris Person has been creating lovely Mixtapes featuring various themes, composers, genres and games.

There was a time, years ago, when LucasArts could do no wrong. They were unstoppable. Every time I got their catalogue, The Adventurer » 4/26/12 8:30pm 4/26/12 8:30pm, in the mail I would instantly pour over every page and start saving my allowance. It was a magical time to be a gamer.

If you're reading this, you probably wasted hours and hours of your youth on Simcity 2000. Chances are you also know the weird, off-beat soundtrack by heart. But in the 90's, Will Wright's Sim Franchise was massive, and SimCity 2000 was only one one game in a series that spanned subjects like healthcare reform… » 4/19/12 8:00pm 4/19/12 8:00pm

Bombastic, orchestral soundtracks are great and all, but they're not always what's called for in a game. Sometimes you need something a bit more laid back - a bit more cool.

Sometimes you just need a little jazz. » 3/22/12 8:30pm 3/22/12 8:30pm

Akira the Don, rapper, producer, hip-hop musician and gamer, dropped nearly an hours worth of amazing Street Fighter-themed music on his site this week. » 5/13/10 12:00pm 5/13/10 12:00pm

Capcom shows off the cover to its Marvel VS Capcom 2 hip-hop mixtape today, with a limited-edition vinyl version of the soundtrack up for grabs at the San Diego Comic-Con this week. » 7/21/09 3:20pm 7/21/09 3:20pm