Melody

When I think of epic JRPG battle music, I usually think of driving guitars, pulsing drums, and soaring melodies. I…

You've heard "One Winged Angel," the memorable dark melody that plays during Final Fantasy VII's Sephiroth's most…

Last week, I finally watched Moneyball. Man, that is one good movie! I genuinely wasn't expecting to love it as…

Japanese RPGs used to be a lot more controversial. Or maybe it was just because I was a teenager during the genre's…

Welcome back to "Menu Music," a regular Kotaku Melodic feature in which we'll be listening to the best and worst…

I've been playing a bit of Escape Plan on the Vita; it's a charming puzzle game that places you in a series of…

Look, okay. Let’s press pause on the debate. You know the debate I’m talking about, right? That endless disagreement…

Who says that all the music we listen to during Kotaku Melodic has to be video game music? No one, that's who. For…

Look, no one really knows what's going on with this whole Notch-Tim-Schafer-Psychonauts 2 thing. But that doesn't…

Game music can show up in the most random places. Rarely, however, does it involve rock bands in bad wigs.