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Soundtracks are a crucial element in games. Music brings the moments to life and drives emotion for characters, actions, and environments within any experience. It can make a game more terrifying, heartwarming, or endearing. It can be transformative and induce a sense of thrill. It can be reflective. It can even be the central conceit

While video games are full of passionate and excited people, there are certain people in the gaming industry that have a huge impact. Games are certainly more than one person, but sometimes there are names that bubble to the top. This isn’t about one single person, and we’d certainly love to honor everyone who helped

Despite the rest of 2020, the past 12 months have been rich with immersive video game worlds, inspiring characters, compelling gameplay mechanics, and fantastic soundtracks. You’ve already told us what your highlights are. Now leading developers in the industry share their personal PlayStation picks from the class of 2020*. Call of Duty: Warzone Play Video

As a new category for 2020, we wanted to give a focus to accessibility options in games and how developers are focusing on allowing more people to enjoy their games than ever before. This category is for the games that go above and beyond with accessibility options, implementing features that may seem incredibly niche, but

“Action” is a pretty loose term that can widely apply across a lot of other genres. There’s action in some adventures. There’s action in RPGs. There’s even some action in narrative-based games. While we’re still considering merging this category in the future to further whittle down the wealth of categories there are (let us know

Following hot on the heels of the multiplayer free play week that’s just happened in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, developer Treyarch has revealed another double XP period for both their game and Call of Duty: Warzone. Players can make use of the New Year’s break to level up even quicker than usual.

Dreams won Games for Change’s Game of the Year 2020, as well as being nominated for our own Game of the Year awards in the Best Family Game category. Despite awareness of the game, though, many creators feel like they’re not getting enough exposure for their creations. The issue, according to Kotaku, is the game

With the year drawing to a close, it’s time for developers and publishers to reflect on the year gone by. They’re also drawing up plans for the year ahead. In more than 100 interviews with Japanese game creators, carried out by Famitsu, a long list of unannounced titles were revealed to be in development. Very

With scalpers pushing the price of PlayStation 5 consoles to $5000, Russian company Caviar aims to make that figure seem like small change with their latest upgrade. The company is aiming to decorate a PS5 console and two DualSense controllers with 20kg of 18 carat gold. The “Golden Rock” limited edition PS5 will be “very

Be it a quick button press or the stunning result of multiple edits, PlayStation games’ Photo Modes – and PS4’s Share and PS5’s Create buttons – have given us all the chance to play photographer in memorializing special moments. And those shots are captured for good reason. Whether they’re being shown to the world or

Goodbye Volcano High might not look like a graphically-intensive game, but its visual effects and art do put a strain on older hardware, which developer KO_OP is glad is not the case with the PlayStation 5. Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine (via GamesRadar), Creative Director Saleem Dabbous revealed that the PS5’s hardware allows developers to

Disaster Report publisher Granzella has teased Disaster Report 5 in a blog post reflecting upon 2020. According to a translation provided by Gematsu, it looks like the title is already in development, albeit in the early stages. The post reads: Rumors of a ‘5’ There might be some of you saying, ‘All you have to

Those who purchase the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be entitled to a PS5 and Xbox Series X/S upgrade at no additional cost. As spotted by ResetEra user The Praiseworthy, Ubisoft recently updated its official online store to add this information. A previously

Device customization company Dbrand has announced that it’ll be launching custom PlayStation 5 faceplates soon, and has challenged Sony to threaten it with legal action. Prior to the launch of the PS5, a UK-based company decided to market custom faceplates for the console, only to end up receiving a legal threat from Sony. As a

The “hid-sony” driver has been available on Linux for a while. According to Phoronix, Sony has released a new “hid-playstation” driver today to include support for DualSense controllers, as well as other PlayStation hardware. Linux users can now use the DualSense controller in USB and Bluetooth modes. The driver supports the controller’s LEDs, motion sensors, touchpad,

Covid-19 has had a massive impact on some industries this year. As reported by MarketWatch, both the global movie industry and North American sports industry have taken hits this year as restrictions have affected people’s ability to attend events. On the other hand, sales within the games industry have risen by 20% to reach a

NieR: Automata has reached a big sales milestone. The official game Twitter account revealed the title has now shifted 5 million units. 『NieR:Automata』の全世界累計出荷＆ダウンロード販売本数が500万本を突破しました。本当に、本当にありがとうございました。 #ニーアオートマタ pic.twitter.com/OPdUVbGjH5 — NieR公式PRアカウント (@NieR_JPN) December 24, 2020 At Tokyo Game Show, Platinum Games revealed that the title had reached 4.85 million units sold. It’s taken just three more months to reach

Capcom has announced that it’s launching a new website, aptly titled “Resident Evil Portal,” for all things Resident Evil in one place. In a press release, the company said that all existing web pages and services will now be integrated into the new portal. At the beginning of 2021, we’ll be launching a new website called

Genshin Impact has been updated to version 1.2. There’s a brand new area known as Dragonspine, a subzero climate, quests, weapons, artifacts, and a new event called The Chalk Prince and the Dragon. Dragonspine is the first new area to be added to the game since its release. Found in the south of Mondstadt, the

Bokeh Game Studio was founded in August by Keiichiro Toyama, Kazunobu Sato and Junya Okura. Since  then, they’ve been hard at work on a new game that’s aiming for release in 2023. In an interview with IGN Japan, Toyama explained how his experience with well-known horror franchises will be coming in handy as the game is