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CultureMorning MusicNo Wonder Billie Eilish Likes Ilomilo So Much
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re checking out music from Ilomilo, a puzzle game so overwhelmingly delightful that Billie Eilish wrote a song about it One of my favorite games of all time, Southend Interactive’s Ilomilo (playlist / longplay /…
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CultureMorning MusicWorld Of Warcraft Had The Perfect Playlist To Kill Hogger To
Good morning children of the Alliance and welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make.. Today we’re vendoring trash, cleaning out our bank tabs, and disenchanting for dust as we prepare for the launch of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands with a musical nostalgia roadtrip…
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CultureMorning MusicAkira Yamaoka Signed Every Shadows Of The Damned Soundtrack Sold In The West
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re revisiting 2011’s Shadows of the Damned, which has one particular track that flies in the face of its goth, heavy metal aesthetics. Grasshopper Manufacture’s Shadows of the Damned (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is…
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CultureMorning MusicDemon’s Souls Understands There’s Beauty In Silence
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, we return to one of the most influential games of the last decade on the eve of its PlayStation 5 remake. From Software’s Demon’s Souls (playlist /longplay /VGMdb) became the template for many games to…
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CultureMorning MusicAlundra, My Big Beautiful Elven Son, Play Us Some Songs
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re listening to the soundtrack from Alundra, a 1998 PlayStation game in which you invade people’s nightmares and solve Zelda-like dungeons to help them wake up. Alundra’s a weird one (playlist /longplay /VGMdb). It was…
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CultureMorning MusicHalf-Life’s Music Was Just As Brilliant As The Rest Of It
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we grab a crowbar and go hunting headcrabs in the PC shooter classic, Half-Life. Half-Life (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is a game that has already had so many things written and said about it…
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CultureMorning MusicPlants vs. Zombies’ Viral Single Was So Weird People Thought It Was A Joke
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today the zombies are coming—and bringing some funky, cute tunes with them—in the original Plants vs. Zombies. 2009’s Plants vs. Zombies (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is an all-time classic tower defense and a game that…
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CultureMorning MusicSayonara Wild Hearts’ OST Is Basically Chvrches From A Parallel Vniverse
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool sounds they make. Today, let’s shine a dreamy neon purple light on one of the most confident video game soundtracks in recent years: Sayonara Wild Hearts, the arcade rhythm game that developer Simogo even describes as a “pop album…
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CultureMorning MusicFake MMO CrossCode Sounds Like A Real SNES RPG
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re listening to the soundtrack from CrossCode, a 2018 game that sounds like an early ‘90s RPG classic. Radical Fish Games’ CrossCode (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is a thoroughly modern action role-playing game that’s…
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CultureMorning MusicIf I Die In Space Please Play The Among Us Theme At My Funeral
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Prepare yourself, things are about to get spooky. Today’s soundtrack comes from the recently exploded-in-popularity murder-mystery party game Among Us There’s really only one extended piece of music in Among Us, and it’s the main HQ…
By Ethan Gach
