With personal tastes aside, I couldn’t very well get away with talking about soundtracks from the Sega Dreamcast without looking at some of the best arranged scores from the platform. While true orchestration in video games wasn’t a new concept when the Sega Dreamcast made its appearance, it was still...

Sports games always seem to get the short end of the stick as far as soundtracks go (with one of the major exceptions being the early Tony Hawk games); Publishers rely on popular Top-40 hits that are never able to feel fresh or exciting because by the time the game actually makes it to retail, the song is...

Last week put a focus on the soundtrack from Jet Grind Radio, which channeled the style and format of a mixed tape for inspiration, and at first glance this week’s game seems to take a page from the same book, but is actually fundamentally different in its execution with Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s seminal...

The Sega Dreamcast signaled an end, but it also birthed a new beginning for home consoles. Sega’s swan song as a hardware manufacturer provided some of the most diverse and genre defining experiences across the short period of its consumer relevance. Unfortunately, Sega lacked the necessary capital and...

With another year comes another crop of absolutely fantastic video game soundtracks.  2010 was overall a pretty fantastic year for video game music that saw chiptunes claw their way even further into the mainstream, as well as the continued prevalence of huge sweeping orchestral scores that rival, and in...

Composers, much like any other musician, often create a very identifiable sound that follows them throughout their career. Be it the Celtic influences that accompany a Yasunori Mitsuda composition, or the dark plodding melodies that Jack Wall incorporates throughout his music, each composer tends to leave...

So I’ve decided to make a triumphant return to Wall of Sound with somewhat of a timely piece (as the third installment in the series hit US store shelves on Sunday) featuring the music of the Professor Layton series. I honestly have had a difficult time qualifying where the series and it’s associated...

Crystal Castles, an electronic group from the glorious Canadian province of Ontario, made up of the beat maker Ethan Kath and singer Alice Glass, have found themselves the unlikely ambassadors and best hope for chiptune as it tries to emerge beyond the enthusiast crowd. Despite their name (which echoes the...

Let’s face it; Despite being in an incredibly transparent and media centric industry, Cliff Blezinski, David Jaffe, Suda 51, The Bioware Doctors, Ken Levine and countless other prolific designers continue to be rather unknown entities to a majority of gamers. Now take that state of ignorance that most...

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is a game that I have been enchanted with from the outset. Everything from the character design to the art style seem fully realized in a way that most games, especially downloadable indie games, often lack. Alongside the game mechanics that find a man obsessed with...