after a 7-3 victory over South Korea in the Grand Finals, United States have successfully defended their crown and are your osu!mania 4K World Cup 2025 Champions! congratulations!

for the last time this year, it's time to SMASH some keys! are you ready for the osu!mania 4K World Cup 2025 GRAND FINALS? United States vs South Korea, now live! www.twitch.tv/osulive

some osu! players click circles, some osu! players create circles to be clicked, and some osu! players like *Xeon Diversity* create music for the rest of the circle-clicking chain. see (and hear) for yourself: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the Finals of the osu!mania 4K World Cup 2025 are kicking off this weekend, and two absolute bangers are about take place! in the winners finals, China will face off against USA, followed by the second losers bracket match Chile vs Thailand join us! www.twitch.tv/osulive

rumor has it that spooky season is right around the corner, and with that comes the eternal osu! tradition of prepping our mascots to dress the part! the Halloween 2025 Fanart contest is back — read all about it here: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20... #osufanart

you'd expect a musician inspired by what they've heard on osu! to make electronic music, but our newest featured artist *kikoyu* breaks expectations. check things out: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

some music is so good you can't listen to it alone. that's why we needed *two* osu!taiko players to tackle this track by @drazicallydtm, our newest featured artist! read: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

today is a good day for Kasane Teto devotees: our newest featured artist *d0tc0mmie* is bringing over 10 tracks with Teto vocals to osu!'s official music library! check things out: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

our newest featured artist *GRYSCL* has been experimenting with electronic music for seven years. now it's time for mappers to pick up where he left off. 5 new tracks are officially part of osu!: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

Locus 2025 — where the creative circles of osu! converge congratulations to the 6 winning teams, whose beatmaps will be bundled with new installations of the game! all the info: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

this year's osu!mania 4K World Cup has begun! when the qualifying teams battle it out this weekend, you might hear this new track produced specifically for the tournament: muyu - 'Oumuamua osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/...

a mapper's eternal struggle is finding the perfect song to map. our newest featured artist Juwubi is here to resolve that. check things out: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

artcore is a genre you probably never heard of until you played osu!. SPIRIT GARDEN * is here to bring more of it to the game as our latest featured artist: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

we have a new featured artist today and are absolutely not making this announcement late because of COE. nope, not possible. forget about your mistakes by mapping something from *DraGonis*: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

not all rhythm game music is built the same, and our newest featured artist *Aspect* creates proof of that. a new blend of narrative-driven electronic and orchestral tunes awaits: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

it's that time of year again. instead of announcing a new featured artist last weekend, we added over *70* tracks from osu!'s older featured artists to our music library! see for yourself: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

it is time for the GRAND FINALS of the osu!catch World Cup 2025! to kick things off, United States and Finland will face off in the last match of the Losers Bracket, with the winner taking on Argentina for the gold! join us and follow it all LIVE! www.twitch.tv/osulive

between official and community efforts, we now have 1,000 osu! original tracks! check them all out at osu.ppy.sh/wiki/en/Comm... (we're also up to over 8,500 tracks in the featured artist library!) ❤️ all

...and second, the grand finals tiebreaker for 2025's osu!catch World Cup is here: Yooh - Eternity

the climax of this year's osu!catch World Cup is next weekend, and we're reaching peak hype levels. first, @wangleline.com produced an original track for the grand finals mappool, and joined our Featured Artist catalogue with 20 other tracks! read: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the votes have been tallied and the results are in... congrats to Triantafyllia (@akariimia) for winning the Fantasy World Art Contest! thank you to everyone who participated! full results: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the osu!catch finals are upon us, and with it comes a new osu! original by Ruby My Dear: Petit Poney matches with this map will be streamed here next week! www.twitch.tv/osulive

aside from an endless supply of circles, osu! players crave only one thing: cool music. that's why we brought *Dispel* into our featured artists! read: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

it's finally happening. welcome Ice to our Featured Artist catalogue with their new track for the osu!catch World Cup: Nostalgia Sonatina Op.3! read: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

130+ artists around our osu! world have just finished their Fantasy World Art Contest creations your mission: explore the newly painted worlds with the osu! cast and vote on the best ones! vote here: osu.ppy.sh/community/co...

the NAT needs your voice more than ever! make yourself heard regarding the current state of the Ranked section via taking a quick survey here: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

osu! is a rhythm game. rhythm games need awesome music. and that's why @shirobon.bsky.social is finally part of our Featured Artist library! read all about it: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the Round of 16 of the osu!catch World Cup 2025 continues today with Türkiye vs Spain, followed by Indonesia vs Poland! now live! twitch.tv/osulive

if you have too much obscure osu! knowledge, like teaming up with friends and scavenging osu!'s vast map library to solve challenges... then you must have oddly specific standards. but worry not, there's a community event just for that! osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the osu!catch World Cup is in full swing, which means you're about to witness weekly songs and maps made specifically for the tournament! our first original was announced only yesterday: Planetary Exclusion Zone by XenjeS (who's also an osu! player!)

weekends on osu! are reserved for two things: world cups and new featured artists one of those is streamed on twitch, while the other is right here. welcome *Simon Safhalter* to our music library! read: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

tournament tiebreaker tracks aren't easy to produce, but *sugosugiii* made a bunch of them since joining our featured artist library last year! 15 new tracks (including those tiebreaker tunes) are now part of osu!: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the osu! world has collided with another... now pippi and co. have found themselves transported into unfamiliar territory! if you have a pen and paper/tablet, this is where you join the Fantasy World Art Contest to tell us of their adventures osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

wake up, a new osu!lazer release just dropped with song select v2 in preview (and much more)! osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

we bring in new featured artists every week, but it's rare to add 100+ tracks in one go. this is one of those rare occasions. welcome *UNTONE Sound Group* to osu!'s featured artist library! read: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the Grand Finals of the Lazer Grand Arena 2025 are now live! join us on Twitch to witness MALISZEWSKI, mrekk and Zylice, three of the world's best osu! tournament players, battle it out for the gold! www.twitch.tv/osulive

even an intangible apparition can create sounds worth adding to osu!'s music library. send your warmest welcomes to *The Musical Ghost*, our newest featured artist! osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

this year's Lazer Grand Arena is down to the top 8! tune in this weekend for the double elimination bracket, plus a new original track by *JinoBeats*: Resonance of Ice Stalactites

sound waves from another dimension have made their new home on osu!. see what our newest featured artist *Kyutatsuki* has to offer! osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

this year's edition of the Lazer Grand Arena is in full swing! we're kicking off the first mappool with an original track by Xeven (who also happens to be a new featured artist as of today!) see for yourself: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the tournament season is continuing strong. we've spotted two pinnacles of team competition that you might want to keep your eyes on: - osu!catch World Cup: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20... - Squad Global Taiko Showdown: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the Lazer Grand Arena opens its gates once again! have what it takes to win our official 1v1 tournament? open qualifiers begin in osu!(lazer) this weekend! the details: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

a new face (and sound) joins the ranks of our featured artists. send your warmest welcomes to *1zm8*! 9 awesome tracks, all here: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

after an intense Grand Finals match against South Korea, Japan have become your osu!taiko World Cup 2025 Champions! congratulations!

a battle of titans is about break out. are you ready? Japan vs South Korea. osu!taiko World Cup 2025 GRAND FINALS. now live! www.twitch.tv/osulive

from your tournament mappools to our Featured Artist library, @naikouiguess.bsky.social is officially part of osu!'s music catalogue! it's time to read: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the first week of the osu!taiko World Cup 2025 Finals kicks off with Taiwan vs China, followed by Chile vs United Kingdom! now live! www.twitch.tv/osulive

enjoy a sneak preview into what teams have been cooking up for Locus over the past 2 months! check out the newspost to find out more about what's been happening behind the scenes: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20... below is the first teaser for your viewing pleasure

the osu!taiko world cup is in sync with our featured artist library. welcome *Terminal 11* to both our featured artists and the TWC finals mappool with the new track "Echoes"! read: osu.ppy.sh/home/news/20...

the osu!taiko World Cup 2025 Semifinals are about to commence! China vs France will be opening this weekend's round, followed by Malaysia vs United Kingdom. join us on Twitch to follow all of it live! twitch.tv/osulive