Well, aw. I have to admit a fondness for Leonard Nimoy’s Hobbit Song, but this is on a whole new level. For starters, it’s actually good.
The soundtrack to Fez officially released on Friday, at a pay-what-you-like price (with a minimum of $US7). Because the entire game is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, some enterprising folks went and opened the sound files in a spectrogram and, voila, they found even more clues.
If you can steel yourself for a post-modern jumble of space exploration and robotic sing-song, Upside Down Cake’s “Star Strike” offers a neat walk through Atari antiquity. Some of these games certainly deserve the homage.
We’ve shown you how today’s 10th anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto III runs on an iPad. But we haven’t been able to listen to all that much it. So we turned to Rockstar Games today and asked them if the iconic soundtrack of the original 2001 GTA III was in the new game.
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.
Hello, Kotaku. The night is dark and full of terrors. Oh, and video game news. So let’s take a five-minute break with some music, OK?
So I’m at home, about to eat my dinner, and I stumble across this video (thanks Wyld) – a cool behind the scenes look at the voice behind the new Assassin’s Creed soundtrack. As they say where I come from ‘she’s goat a fair set a’ lungs’ – which roughly translates as ‘she’s a beautiful singer’. You should totally watch this.
On September 20, the same day Epic and Microsoft unleashed Gears of War 3, Sumthing Else Music Works will release Steve Jablonsky’s epic score for the game on iTunes, Amazon and SumthingDigital.com. Are your MP3 players prepared for war?
