Feature by Hamza A. How often does a racing game get singled out for its soundtrack? The short and correct answer is: never. There was a time when licensed soundtracks and repetitive techno beats ruled the genre, but that paradigm’s ready to shift if more and more the likes of…
Read MoreIt takes some real cajones to take a popular song and change it completely. I think we forget that in a world in which covers are more commonplace than original music; if you’re going to take something great and do something with it, even when it was your creation in…
Read MoreDuet is a decidedly simple indie game that sees you guiding two coloured orbs around static and moving obstacles, and these are abstract in the extreme; they amount to no more than squares and rectangles. Despite the minimalism and simple gameplay, the naming of the levels after the Kubler-Ross Model…
Read MoreIt’s a little odd, listening to the soundtrack for Xenoblade Chronicles X separate from the game itself. That, of course, applies to most game soundtracks, because game soundtracks have generally been written around what the other creatives on a game development team have come up with. But I don’t mean…
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