2025 has seen some of our biggest VGM drops yet 🎶 From announcing vinyl releases for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, to tons more! Here's our last roundup for 2025: www.lacedrecords.co/blogs/blog/l... Have a great festive break and see you in the new year!

This is the best video game music of 2025, as chosen by the composers behind it. vgc.news/features/thi...

New podcast is up tomorrow but before that, I have an announcement. We are launching a new video game news show! The Character Issues News Network for News will launch on December 29th! It will appear right in the Character Issues feed so you can just get it where you get the main show. Win win!

It's great to see some amazing OSTs recognised in the Game Audio Network Guild awards, including Borderlands 4, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, Mafia: The Old Country, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, and Sword of the Sea. 👏 Full list here: www.audiogang.org/awards

What a lovely writeup of SWORD OF THE SEA! Bandcamp did a piece on their favorite game OSTs of 2025 & had these incredibly kind words to share! So grateful to get to do this kind of thing with people I love so much! @mattnava.bsky.social @giantsquidstudios.com daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2025...

A humiliating victory for Arsenal against Wolves. Relieved we got there in the end, and credit to Saka deliveries, but Wolves pulling level felt as bad as Villa’s winner.

Time to stream stream!

To round it all up, here are my fav E33 portraits of the year. Now, let's watch #TheGameAwards.😁 📸Click for full view #Expedition33 #ClairObscur #VirtualPhotography | #FramedSc | #Sophie | #Maelle | #Verso | #Lune @expedition33.bsky.social @kepler-interactive.bsky.social @benstarr.bsky.social

They used my absolute favourite My Perfect Circle song for this trailer. Love to hear it. youtu.be/fVrHLZyoKxQ?... #TheGameAwards

"We don't know the colours of tomorrow, but we're ready to paint them with you." 😭

I think I will have the Silksong Courier’s Rasher route etched into my memory for eternity.

Chris Larkin @christopherlarkin.bsky.social's score for #HollowKnight #Silksong is magisterial, forlorn, & immaculately crafted. The thing I love most is the precision of musical restraint vs. breaking out the virtuosic bangers. Masterful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6is... @teamcherry.bsky.social

I kinda sorta ‘directed’ this product video - thanks to Alex Rogers at Good Things Design for Blender work

Huge #SilentHill vibes from Julianna Barwick’s 2011 album opener “Envelop” youtu.be/7H-m6nO8cyQ?...

just let my YouTube Premium lapse and my lord in heaven the insertion of adverts absolutely everywhere at every moment is like a dystopian parody.

In the ‘90s/‘00s we were in awe of Jeff Buckley as a vocal performer. Conor Mason from Nothing but Thieves also astounds me, but I feel like it’s harder these days to reach consensus with music-loving friends about standout talents. youtu.be/v78PSm1R7bg?...

Split Fiction is a brilliant game. Beautiful, endlessly likeable, inventive & affecting. Final level is bonkers brilliant. Score by Gustaf Grefberg & Jonatan Järpehag is superb & deftly dances between genres. Deserves all the GOTY noms it gets— what a year! 👏 @hazelightgames.bsky.social

Ghost of Yotei #GhostOfYotei #VirtualPhotography #ThePhotoMode @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social

Alan Wake 2 #ThePhotoMode #VirtualPhotography #AlanWake2

🎶 At 87,449, “Golden” has broken the record for number of times a chorus has looped in my head. The record was only recently recorded by Sabrina Carpenter’s “My Man On Willpower”, at a mere 76,666 loops.

Always thought Cassian Andor’s hair/facial hair was modelled on 70s McCartney. Can’t unsee it

Made a score reduction/analysis vid for the #Helldivers2 main theme, “A Cup of Liber-tea”! It transcribes both orchestra and synths/drums, and highlights themes. Try and guess how many times you hear the main motif repeated throughout? :-P Full vid on YT! #gamemusic

Improvising in the Dorian mode is the fastest way to get to SILENT HILL.

For fans of vast soundscapes and reverb-rich, ambient futuristic synths, two game OSTs have stood out in the last few years: • Solar Ash by Troupe Gommage/Disasterpeace/Joel Corelitz www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOz3... • After Us by Daniel Elms www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YUE... Superbly atmospheric

I'm excited to reveal I'll be joining Nordic Game 2026 for a conversation with Laced Records Matt Ombler about my musical journey, creative process and scoring Warhammer Darktide. @lacedrecords.com @fatshark.se @matombler.bsky.social @nordicgame.com #warhammer #Darktide

The SWORD OF THE SEA vinyls are for sale as of now from @lacedrecords.com I will be signing and selling a very short number via my Bandcamp merch page, also listed as of now: austinwintory.bandcamp.com/merch Thank you to all who've so generously supported the game; it's been such a joy 💓

I’m a little late to the party but damn, Altered Carbon S1 is compelling. Might be my imagination but it feels like that era of shows has passed now.

Fans of Ghibli/Joe Hisaishi will be charmed by this interview Even if you’re not a classical aficionado, it’s worth watching to the end, as it reveals a childlike glee for the minimal in music. Props to Jonathan Ross who clearly knows his shit about Japanese culture, language, music and cinema.

A beautiful vinyl to commemorate a beautiful score (by a beautiful man) from a beautiful game!

Fantastic interview

Baby Steps is the polar opposite to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. In one, I’m a Greek goddess leaping over the land, gracefully felling foes with superhuman agility. Quests, minimap, skills. In the other, I’m a doughy oaf, face down in muddy water, unable to string stumbling steps together.

For those who love the hard rock from Alan Wake (Poets of the Fall/Old Gods of Asgard), you might enjoy some Swedish melodic power prog-metal courtesy of Dynazty youtu.be/UQ4uyq3GU1w?...

All I need for horror video game writing (specifically notes, graffiti, etc.) to be effective is ‘evocative nonsense’… Something like: “That door. It was open before I returned. But it slammed shut leaving the shadow of a woman who passed by years ago. I call for help but Tuesdays are bad for it.”

I think it’s worth shouting out what Daniel Olsén adds to @simogo.com games (+Linnea Olsson and Jonathan Eng). The Lorelei and the Laser Eyes soundtrack tells you everything you need to know about the pitch perfect ‘60s psychedelic horror vibes: youtu.be/DKg31Tf2MKU?...

I don’t move in movie music circles enough to say that John Powell is somehow underrated, but hot damn does he cook even for animated threequels. youtu.be/atSzqo_x7x0?...

Yasunori Nishiki came within touching distance of Uematsu/FF8’s all-timer “Balamb Garden” with the serene “Cobblestone, Nestled in the Hills” from Octopath Traveler. My kids listen to both nightly on their sleepy playlist. youtu.be/wcaEE0rFO9w?... What’s another GOAT peaceful OST track?

Latest Trigg & Gusset album is out and it's pure rain-soaked noir vibes, through and through: triggandgusset.bandcamp.com/album/event-...

Have been working on this for @lacedrecords.com for basically a year. And God of War. Assassin’s Creed. Civilisation. DOOM. Pokémon. And Clair Obscur. It has been a heck of a ride.

I occurs to me that Supergrass's "Moving" is a magnificent, pure pop condensation of Pink Floyd's "Dogs" Moving: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8w8... Dogs (from 0:35): www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq3b...

Fans of Studio Ghibli soundtracks, especially Hisaishi's piano work, should revel in Ravel's 'Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte' www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIXe...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 superboss beaten, credits rolled. Absolutely bawled at the ending. For a debut game and a relatively teensy team — only one (1!) level designer and one story writer — it is one of the greats. 33/10

Gutted a virus nixed my appearance on this, but the panel crushed it anyway

Such a fascinating interview, especially for fans of classic-era Squaresoft.

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?...