New podcast: Amnesia: Rebirth (early access) Merging the horror of the Amnesia series with the heavy narrative aspects of SOMA, Frictional risked not pleasing anybody. Chris W, Jon and Sean look at how Amnesia: Rebirth stands up in its own right. Support our Patreon for just $2 and listen today!

#CRTWR: It's not a loop, it's a spiral. Illuminate us with your Three-Word Reviews of Alan Wake II before Mr Scratch calls at 20:00 BST.

My first product as a product manager!

Lumina Converter is the new Deifacted nethicite #clairobscur #finalfantasy

Love this soundtrack so much. For fans of light, lovely OSTs like Unravel, Spiritfarer, Sign of the Sojourner, Florence, Wavetale, etc.

We're not even 3/4 through the year, but the Laced team has 👨‍🍳COOKED🍲 in 2025. Here's an announcement round-up: www.lacedrecords.co/blogs/blog/l...

I find special resonance between the wind performances in Nitin Sawhney’s “Firmament” and “Lune” from the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 OST by Lorien Testard & Alice Duport-Percier. Both beautiful, with lovely repeated melodic hooks Firmament: youtu.be/BtTwKQeu2SQ?... Lune: youtu.be/TsBSINXPTyc?...

On the latest ep, Mat & Tom discuss the news around Duolingo's acquisition of the Beat Star team & the original Guitar Hero devs getting the band back together. Find it wherever you get your podcasts & please share + subscribe! @matombler.bsky.social @tquillfeldt.bsky.social

Guillaume Ferran's score for Jusant is something else. The sense of hopeful momentum is palpable, and the instrument and mixing choices are exquisitely well-balanced. www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3N...

Our Hollow Knight podcast James, Jon, Josh and Tom venture into the depths of Hallownest to uncover the secrets and shocking truths behind the creation of the Hollow Knight. Available now for free. The perfect accompaniment to Hollow Knight: Silksong!

Almost as delightful to talk about Astro Bot as it is to play it…

On the latest ep, Mat & Tom chat about Clair Obscur (what else?) & the news around Duolingo's purchase of Beat Star devs & original Guitar Hero devs getting the band back together. Find it wherever you get your podcasts & please share + subscribe! @matombler.bsky.social @tquillfeldt.bsky.social

The climbing video game Jusant is beautiful, it’s meditative. Above all though, it’s tasteful and restrained - colours, music, gameplay, story. Has quietly won me over in a big way.

Our Metal Gear Solid 3 podcast. Leon, Tony, Darren, Josh and Paul Rooney are inserted into the Soviet jungle via HALO jump to talk turkey, tree frog and several taxa of fungi. Is 2004’s Bond-tinged, 60s-set Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater the green sheep of the Metal Gear family or The Big Boss?

Game: #DeathStranding2 Developer: #KojimaProductions #VGPNetwork #ThePhotoMode #ArtisticofSociety #VGPUnite #TheCapturedCollective #VPGamers #WorldofVP #VirtualPhotography

Current mood, out in nature with the kids: youtu.be/LCaNDUcqHlQ?...

There needs to be a special word for that feeling when you have a hunch that a path in a video game leads to a dead end with a goodie to pick up, and you’re proven right…

If you need a Monday pick-me-up, this will get the blood pumping: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZFX... "Mind Ecology" by Shakti ft. John McLaughlin

New podcast: Chrono Cross Brian, Chris W, Leah and Rich dissect Chrono Cross, the much discussed sequel/follow-up to legendary JRPG Chrono Trigger. Available now, for free, from the usual podcast places (unless Pocket Casts is playing up yet again), our website and evil Spotify.

☀️Light and dark🌙 #MafiaTheOldCountry #Mafia #VirtualPhotography #FramedSC @mafiagame.2k.com

POD INTERVIEW: Wilbert Roget II chats about BAFTA awards, Helldivers 2, Star Wars Outlaws, Pacific Drive & Gundam—& being totally addicted to brass. Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts and please share and subscribe! Listen now: linktr.ee/gxmpodcast @wilbertroget.bsky.social

Current mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8kx...

New early-access podcast: Astro Bot Tom, Chris O'Regan and Karl laser-jump their way through the riotous robotic antics of Astro and his 300+ friends. Support Cane and Rinse for just $2 per month to get every new edition four weeks early.

The Talos Principle 2 features by far the most architecturally interesting virtual spaces I've ever seen. Lots and lots of them. Game/Art/Design Director - Davor Hunski #thetalosprinciple

The language of music is amazing. My 6-year-old heard this Uematsu piece on his sleepy playlist and asked “Daddy is this one of the Gymnopies, maybe number 3?” youtu.be/hKGv2wYIzTU?...

[email protected] PROG HEAVEN www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqqz... cc. @nowplaying.cool

Working on this project has been insane. So many different angles and details to be on top of. The response has been incredible.

If ever you want to feel like you're in another dimension, listen to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHon...

Fun fact. Tim Miller (Deadpool director; Love, Death + Robots showrunner) and his company Blur created the animations for Clippy from Microsoft Word youtu.be/xJAZXcyXchc?...

Val Kilmer in Top Secret! Really is the spitting image of Austin Butler - and has the Elvis dance moves as well.

Feeling a very strange feeling — classic Disney nostalgia. Went to D-land Paris last year and it was a trial (with two kids). Listened to What Went Wrong movie podcast ep on Snow White podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... and revisiting the OST thie morning — it really does cast a spell on you.

Studio Ghibli/Isao Takahata’s Pom Poko is an odd, funny, sad film. The sequence at the end where an urban landscape is temporarily transformed back to nature gives me a lump in the throat - the track “Undercurrent” by Hasso Gakuden is one of my favourite ever pieces youtu.be/1P3gl0yde0s?...

Funny line in Asterix and the Big Fight (English translated comic book) “I congratulate you on your unsolicited heroism”

What with Blue Prince, Deltarune, Split Fiction, Kindgom Come, it definitely feels like an absolutely stacked year already. Always room for more surprise hits though, now that GTA6 has moved back.

If you need a bit of an uplift this morning and don't mind choral music, wrap your ears around this gently rousing tune: youtu.be/SIiw_zNf_jo?...

#andor Presumably Syril’s mother is written to be more terrifying than the Emperor despite not being able to fire lightning from her fingers

Had the absolute pleasure to interview three of the most talented musicians working in video games.

Nice John Williams quote: “I can only put dots on a paper; it doesn’t become music until it’s interpreted by a great orchestra and has an audience to hear it. Then what’s written on the paper becomes music, becomes a communal act.”

I was a big fan of the chill Tunic soundtrack by Janice Kwan and Lifeformed, and game OSTs like Hohokum and Fez before that. Eli Rainsberry is currently putting out some exquisite work in a similar vein, recently for Flock www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnCI...

Schildmaid MX for Nintendo Switch Limited Edition and Standard Edition preorders starting in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

On GXM 47, Mat & Tom reflect on a glut of VGM concerts and highlight music from Summer trailers. Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts and please share and subscribe! @matombler.bsky.social @tquillfeldt.bsky.social

GXM 47 is now live! Mat & Tom pick highlights from among the 'not-E3' trailers and reflect on potential VGM concert saturation. Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts and please share and subscribe! @matombler.bsky.social @tquillfeldt.bsky.social

An elegant soundtrack for a more civilized age

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In our latest interview, @matombler.bsky.social chats to Gaetano Fazio, founder of SOHO Live, about the logistics of video game concerts, including #StardewValley and #Deathstranding tours. Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts and please share and subscribe!

#Undertale: The Determination Symphony at H'smith Apollo, produced by Lambert Jackson & @materiamusic.com, was absolutely stupendous — & I don't even really 'get' Undertale. The ensemble was on fire & the conductor-MD-arranger understood the assignment. Best VG concert with visuals I've been to.

John Konsolakis' Ivor Novello-winning score for Farewell North has some arrestingly beautiful cues on it, such as the goosebumps-worthy "Visiting Mum" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaF0... #gamemusic

I always loved the cavernous, shimmering minimalism of Nitin Sawhney’s remix of Mandalay’s “Deep Love”. Has haunted me for decades. Beautiful. youtu.be/TFnrW5OAvQU?...

On GXM 46, @matombler.bsky.social chats to Gaetano Fazio, founder of SOHO Live, about the logistics of video game concerts, including #StardewValley and #Deathstranding tours. Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts and please share and subscribe!

I’m fairly sure that “Tere Bine” by Bollywood legend A. R. Rahman from the film Guru is basically the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard. youtu.be/RMd2hXlVEQg?... I first heard it in a remix during the charming Ms Marvel Disney+ show.