music games

Music Toys? Music Games? They’re Free And You Can Play Them Right Now

The folks at DinahMoe production house have created a couple of whimsical music games that you should definitely mess around with.


The Rise Of The New Music Games

Since well before Kotaku Melodic, I’ve been writing about and keeping an eye on musical video games. Whenever I talk about “music games,” people tend to think of the same kinds of things — plastic musical instrument peripherals and dance pads, Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution.


This Game Puts You Inside A Gigantic Synthesiser

It took me a long time to understand synthesizers. When I was a kid, I would often think of a synthesiser as being more or less the same thing as an electric piano — wasn’t a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer basically just a synthesiser?


The Worst Music Video Games Ever

Music games aren’t what they used to be, and in some cases, the world is safer for that. Video game expert Scott Steinberg and author of the new digital book “Music Games Rock”, tells us what the seven worst music video games of all time are.


Leaked Memo: There’s Just No ‘Appetite’ For Guitar Hero Now

Publisher Activision put its Guitar Hero business on ice earlier this year, signalling the end of a genre that was once white hot, but quickly flamed out. Why did Activision just bail on this formerly billion dollar business instead of taking it in a radical new direction?


The Next Hit Music Game Is Already Out There On Facebook

French developer MXP4 says they want you to “play with your music.” They just launched Bopler Games, a set of classic games on Facebook with an added musical slant. To play, choose a song from the Bopler library, (which features an inordinate amount of 80s pop) choose a game, and go. The kicker is that each of the games automatically syncs to the beat of your chosen song, creating a potentially exponential growing set of variation. Shmup enemies dance to the beat, Tetris blocks drop at different speeds depending on the speed of the song, etc. At the moment, there are four games available, including versions Tetris and Snake, with six more on the way.


Music Games Will Make A Comeback, But How Is A Mystery

Rock Band and Guitar Hero aren’t the sensations they used to be. That doesn’t mean they’re bad. Not Rock Band 3. But they’re not the cultural phenomenons they once were. That’s temporary, according to a man who should know.


Rock Band 3′s Pro Guitar Mode Is Lefty-Compatible

Ever since we previewed Rock Band 3′s Pro Guitar mode, readers have been asking if lefties can play this mode. They can.


RZA Joins The Ranks Of DJ Hero 2 Playable Characters

Wu-Tang Clan founder and world famous DK RZA will be a playable character in upcoming game DJ Hero 2, Activision said today.


How Multiplayer Kinect Dancing Works

Dance Central has multiplayer. It’s no Kinect Adventures multiplayer where you’d be standing side by side, in a gesture vs gesture frenzy. No. It does dance battles. You take turns.


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