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Culture

Halo Composer Wrote Jingles For Flintstones Vitamins, Tidy Cats

7:00AM Owen Good | A profile by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, calling Marty O’Donnell the John Williams of the Halo series, turns up this tidbit: He wrote the Flintstones Vitamins jingle (which you now have stuck in your head) and his kids sang the chorus. More »
Culture

EA Denmark Drops Brütal Legend’s Complete Soundtrack

6:30AM Owen Good | It figures that, when the Brütal Legend soundtrack was revealed, it would come out of a place like Denmark. They take their metal seriously, and EA Denmark has the list of more than 100 songs in the game. More »
Media

Best 2009 Video Game Soundtrack So Far?

7:00AM Stephen Totilo
You’ve heard the theme to Bowser’s castle from Super Mario Bros. But have you heard it remixed in kind of a hip-hop way and officially commissioned by Nintendo as part of the Pictobits soundtrack? More »
News

Capcom’s Marvel Vs Capcom 2 Hip-Hop Mixtape Revealed

3:40AM Stephen Totilo | The summer re-release of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 features the same wacky jazz as the original game, but Capcom revealed to Kotaku today plans for a star-studded free bonus soundtrack players can fight to instead. More »
News

Capcom Soundtracks Are Sumthing Else

12:20AM Mike Fahey | Sumthing Else Music Works continues to strengthen its lineup of video game soundtrack offerings, with a deal with Capcom scoring them the scores to Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV, Dark Void, and more. More »
Culture

Listen To The JRPG Soundtrack Of The JRPG That Doesn’t Exist

9:30PM Luke Plunkett | JRPGs are a predictable bunch. Spiky-haired youths, big swords, doe-eyed ladies and comic relief that’s either an ethnic minority or a robot. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all. Their soundtracks are no different. More »
News

Halo 3: ODST Music Debuts At Seattle VGL

1:40AM Mike Fahey | Gamers attending the Video Games Live concert performance at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on January 24th are in for a special treat, as music from Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3: ODST makes its debut.

Sumthing Else Releasing Halo Wars Soundtrack

2:20AM Mike Fahey | Sumthing Else Music Works continues to release music for every big game Microsoft releases, with the announcement that the Halo Wars Soundtrack by Stephen Rippy will be available for purchase on February 17th. More »

Halo Trilogy Soundtrack Available Tomorrow

2:20AM Mike Fahey | Fans of the music of Bungie’s Halo series are in for a real treat tomorrow, as Sumthing Else releases a 5-disc soundtrack set spanning the series’ history, complete with a Halo Wars preview. More »

You Can’t Hum a Video Game

8:20AM Stuart Houghton | In 1982 the president of Arista records, Clive Davis, wrote an editorial in Billboard magazine entitled “You can’t hum a video game.” His point was that, although the then newly-popular pastime of gaming was giving record companies the heebie-jeebies by threatening to eat into the spending power of the youth market, music would always have the upper hand compared to this newfangled bleepy nonsense. More »