The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

The only live music I’ve managed to see all year came from an unexpected place. Born Takamasa Ishihara in Osaka in 1981, Miyavi is best known for his fast-paced, catchy electro-rock music and frenetic guitar playing. So we heard lots of ‘it’s not the time to shoot a music video.”’ Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge. “I

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

It may sound like a strange crossover, but it’s all part of Pokémon’s music-focused 25th anniversary celebration. Of course, this is all part of a burgeoning convergence between music and gaming, which accelerated after live events were largely put on hold due to the pandemic.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Sony is basically handing you a $150 sound upgrade with a smirk. That’s over a full day of wear time for flights, meetings, doomscrolling, and pretending you’re in a music video while doing your laundry. It’s all fair game. at Amazon $399.99 Save $150 Get Deal Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones are down to $249.99

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

American pop star Ava Max held a “virtual fan meetup” in the game to celebrate the launch of her new album Heaven & Hell. Despite its straightforward nature, 1.156 million unique players showed up for the event, with a peak concurrent total of 166,620 people — and it’s just the start of a plan to make music an integral part of Roblox.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the most recognizable brands in the headphones and earbuds game, Beats has long been known for its incredible sound quality, and that's exactly what you get with the Beats Fit Pro. The sound quality is seriously immersive and the quality is next to none.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, Twitch releases Soundtrack , a new product that allows streamers to play music while they’re live — or, at least, that’s the simplest way to explain it. If the product works the way Twitch says it does, Soundtrack will be much more than just a way to play rights-cleared music while you’re broadcasting.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

ToneStone is an app designed to make producing music easy, even for users without any musical experience, and it’s created by people who worked on Guitar Hero and Left 4 Dead. If you’ve never heard of LoPiccolo, you’ve probably heard of games he helped make. ToneStone uses a system of loops and decks.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

I have been listening to robot-made music all week. No, not Daft Punk , but randomly generated music posted every hour by a Twitter bot, @MelodyBot3456. As you’d expect from auto-generated music, the short songs (if you can call them that) are often bizarre and regularly veer in unexpected and hilarious directions.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2022

Leviathan V2 sound system, following up its previous iteration that launched back in 2014. But, of course, the wired subwoofer is there to further amp up the booming low-frequency sounds. I enjoyed using it enough to leave the setting switched on, but some music sounded better to me with the setting off.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

CD Projekt Red’s (CDPR) highly anticipated new roleplaying game Cyberpunk 2077 is having a bit of a rough release , and now you can add potential copyright issues while streaming to its list of launch-day hiccups. That’s even if you’re using the specific in-game setting designed to toggle off copyrighted music for this exact reason.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

The Sims is the latest game to feature a virtual concert, but this one comes with a twist: some of the songs will be performed in the fictional Simlish language. Today EA announced “Sims Sessions,” described as an in-game music festival that will take place inside The Sims 4 from June 29th to July 7th.

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The Verge

JUNE 19, 2021

He’s been a jaw-droppingly prolific composer with work stretching back to the 1980s, and he has credits on films ( The Lego Movie , Thor: Ragnarok ), TV series ( What We Do in the Shadows, Dawson’s Creek ), and even other video games ( Skate 3 , The Sims 2 ). Video games, on the other hand, can be “plastic and amoebic and alive.”

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

No matter what you do during your waking hours — work at home or outside of it; commute in a car, a train, or by walking from your bedroom to your living room; or spend your days watching the kids or job hunting — you’re probably spending at least some of that time listening to music. But where do you find that music? YouTube Music.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

million seed round from PTK Capital — and even adds music megastar Moby to its cap table. It connects to your smartphone, and the app unlocks music-making creativity for beginners with no music skills at all. At launch, the app will offer 15 sounds and soundscapes, including a variety of musical styles and genres.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

(Stansbury says the company’s record number of revisions for a single film is 92.) “It doesn’t matter if you’re on an inexpensive TV with no soundbar, or you’re in a million dollar theater, it will look and sound better when you feed it with high fidelity content,” he says. ”

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

Microsoft is planning to launch its game streaming service, currently known as Project xCloud, free to its paying Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in September. The xCloud service will allow Xbox players to play games on mobile devices or even start a game on their consoles and resume it on their phone or tablet.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While all my friends have been raving about Halo Infinite , I’ve instead been reminding myself just how inexplicably good Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was on the Game Boy Advance. Often going back to play classic games like this can be a reality check. It has basically the same form factor as the original Game Boy.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

There weren’t any bombshells on the scale of last year’s Xbox Series X reveal , but the 2020 edition of The Game Awards was still packed with news and trailers. There were game reveals like Perfect Dark and Open Roads , more characters for Fortnite and Super Smash Bros., A new game from the creators of Gone Home. and a lot more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Whether you recently bought or soon plan to buy an Xbox Series X or an Xbox Series S , or are sticking with your Xbox One console, it’s sure nice to have a stack of good games to play. Individual games, while sometimes worth the cost, can be pricey. Instead, you can get a ton of value out of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With direct lit LEDs and a 60Hz refresh rate, this Toshiba isn't just good for streaming, it will also keep up with modern game systems and look good while doing it. With impeccable sound, great battery life, and near equivalence in how well they work with both Apple and Android, these headphones are a wonderful buy. at Best Buy $349.99

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“I have been thinking about music since my time at TikTok, and I was really thinking about building something on my own, but then it took me another year to finally have the guts to do it,” said Henriquez. wants to help people easily produce, own and share music that they can create using just their phone. last summer.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The best games you can play on the Vive, Rift, or Quest 2 With the advent of platforms like the Oculus Quest 2, VR has never been more accessible. If you’re wondering if a game will work with your particular headset, we’ve outlined that at the bottom of each entry. Image: Beat Games. Beat Saber. Beat Saber. The Climb 2.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A few options for each platform If you’re shopping for a gaming headset, you have a lot of options. Knowing a thing or two about headphones might aid in your search, but gaming headsets have only gotten more complicated to shop for — especially the wireless ones. This is the downfall of many otherwise good gaming headsets.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Image: Dr. Dre / Rockstar Games. Six Dr. Dre tracks that made their first appearance in GTA Online ’s The Contract update from last year are now available on music streaming services including Apple Music and Spotify , Rockstar Games has announced. GTA is part of a growing list of games that have debuted new music.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

As is common with new Tesla features, Boombox combines real utility with lowbrow humor: owners can use fart and goat sounds in lieu of normal, boring honking sounds car horns usually make. You can also customize the sound your car makes when you press the horn, drive the car or when your car is moving with Summon.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They’ve switched from an open-air design to a sealed fit; have better sound, thanks to that decision (and a partnership with THX); and they offer adequate active noise cancellation. For Samsung , it’s the clever new speech detection feature that enables ambient sound as soon as you start talking. In Apple’s case, that’s Spatial Audio.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Super Mario World Restored project is ongoing, but you can already listen to nine tracks from the original game over on The Brickster’s YouTube channel. As The Brickster explains on Twitter , this isn’t simply a case of taking the tracks from the original game and cleaning them up. That game reuses samples from Super Mario World.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Almost a great gaming gadget The $199 GTW 270 Hybrid earbuds from audio company EPOS are, to my knowledge, the first truly wireless earbuds made for gaming — but the buds themselves aren’t the biggest selling point. The USB-C Bluetooth receiver that comes with the earbuds gets that distinction. Here’s the star of the show.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

Qualcomm today announced Snapdragon Sound, which is what the company describes as “a chain of audio innovations and software” that work together to significantly improve audio quality when listening to music through wireless headphones, earbuds, and other devices. Image: Qualcomm.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its easy to say that the name of the advertising game has always been attention. But the level of skill, belief, strategic rigor, creative confidence, and sheer will required to win this game has never been higher or more complex. If the game really was the closest thing to the real deal, why not make it that much closer?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

GameStop and Microsoft have entered into a multiyear agreement that gives the video game retailer a cut of every digital purchase made on any Xbox consoles it directly sells going forward, Ars Technica reports. The biggest question is how much of a cut GameStop is getting. There are a lot of unanswered questions.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2020

The company announced a multiyear partnership with Riot Games that’ll make Spotify the hub for all League of Legends audio content, including exclusive podcast series. Listeners will hear about the players and top anthem through game highlights, interviews, and game sound effects.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

One month after suggesting its iOS App Store guidelines would bar cloud gaming services like Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud from appearing on an iPhone or iPad, the company has now overhauled those rules, telling journalists last Friday that Google and Microsoft’s streaming games are actually welcome after all. We checked.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 18, 2022

A Sonic the Hedgehog version of Heardle asks players to guess the Blue Blur's tracks faster than the speed of sound — literally.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

It didn’t turn me into Wendy Carlos, but it helped pass a few dark pandemic hours by firing up some music-making neurons. No lessons or musical aptitude are required — just a free hand or two and the desire to noodle around with sound. Clearly the end game is making the system as dummy proof as humanly possible.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

model has breathable ear pads, the SpeedFlex braided cable and includes the USB sound card. Razer is launching two models of the BlackShark V2 wired gaming headset today, following up on the original model that was released all the way back in 2012. Razer told me that the sound card won’t be available for purchase separately at launch.

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