The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

If you can host a popular talk show in Animal Crossing , why not stage an official music video there? Particularly when, as you’ll see in Sylvan Esso ’s official “Ferris Wheel” music video, the results are excellent. This actually isn’t the first official music video shot in Animal Crossing , by the way.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday night, and Ars' Kyle Orland (who's played the games) and Andrew Cunningham (who hasn't) will be talking about them here every Monday morning. Kyle : I may be to blame for that vague sense you have. Oh, dang, is that Catherine O'Hara?"

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

Sometimes, we turn on the radio and play board games; other times, we stay in pajamas and take on a new cooking or baking challenge. Its our version of sndagshygge the Danish idea of embracing cozy Sundays with tea, books, music, blankets, and other at-home rituals. Gamification has been shown to increase motivation and engagement.

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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

JULY 19, 2021

Peloton is entering the video game business. Today the company announced its latest idea to get people to exercise: an in-app video game tentatively called Lanebreak. Players can choose a difficulty level, the type of music they want to hear, and the duration of the track before starting.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Iconic game designer Jeff Minter is back with another modern take on a long-forgotten Atari title. His version ups the visuals and takes serious liberties with the original design, adopting techno music and some new game modes. He also provided the visuals for a Nine Inch Nails video. Maybe it was just ahead of its time.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Video game music has evolved along with the decades, resulting in a range of genres and styles. Here's our list of the best video game soundtracks of all time.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Then, you dive into the story and language through an informal video lesson called After Short. FluentU uses beginner-friendly movie trailers and music videos to teach you vocabulary and grammar in context. The concept is simple yet effective: Each week, you pick a short film from a curated collection of French licensed movies.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 18, 2025

When it comes to getting music for games, Styngr is the only full licensed major label partner that can get pre-cleared music into games. Read More

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Apple Music's arrival to the PlayStation 5 marks the first time a gaming console is integrated with an Apple Music experience. Starting today, anyone with an Apple Music subscription and a PS5 at hand can listen to over 90 million songs, curated and personal playlists, 4K music videos, Apple Music.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 12, 2025

Opus Major has raised $10 million in funding to build a global game studio dedicated to crafting games and entertainment. Read More

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VentureBeat

MARCH 31, 2025

Yoko Shimomura, known for composing many iconic video game music scores, will be honored with a BAFTA Fellowship. Read More

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TechSpot

JUNE 30, 2023

Grammy award-winning composer Christopher Tin is behind some of gaming's most iconic soundtracks, including Baba Yetu. We sit down with him to chat about how video game music has changed and where it's headed. Read Entire Article

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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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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A screencap of the “Breakers” mechanic in Peloton’s Lanebreak game. Finally, some less dramatic news from Peloton: its Lanebreak in-app video game is finally here for Peloton Bike and Bike Plus owners. The game itself sort of looks a lot like riding a light cycle in Tron , but it takes elements from rhythm games.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

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. SEE ALSO: The best Pokémon deals ahead of the 2025 Amazon Spring Sale Battery life? Thirty hours.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Now, they are looking to help you generate bits of music by just typing some words. You just have to type in a prompt like “Calming piano music to listen to while studying” or “Funky beats for a podcast intro” to let the app generate a music clip. You type in a prompt for music and it churns out a track.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. 14) Gaming tournaments. 9) Movie screenings.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

His win came when the global appetite for Amapiano, a style of house music that emerged in South Africa , and Afrobeats, a popular music genre that originated from Western Africa , had increased exponentially. It was a much-needed success for the African music scene, and though it didn’t appear so, it was a boost for its tech scene. .

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TechSpot

MAY 16, 2024

The commercial showed a giant press being slowly lowered, crushing a number of musical instruments, classical sculptures, books, paints, games, cameras, and more. Apple showed off the Crush ad at its Let Loose iPad event earlier this month. When it retracted, an iPad Pro was left in place of the. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Today, a startup is announcing some funding as it looks to make a similar impact in the world of music. Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

Henry Cavill knows exactly how you imagine him: bulging muscles, epic chin, movie star grin, sitting alone in his man-cave playing PC games all day because that’s what he told GQ he likes to do best. OH GOD, THE MUSIC: View this post on Instagram. He certainly has the time now, and the video leaves us with a message: “THE END.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If you received a virtual reality gaming headset this holiday season, congratulations! Whether you’ve got the newly released Oculus Quest 2 , one of the last few units of the now discontinued Oculus Rift S , or another headset like the PlayStation VR , there are a ton of video games for you to explore with your new head mount display.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Tesla updated its software allowing vehicle occupants to play video games on the center touchscreen while in motion, raising questions about safety and driver distraction. Previously, video games were only playable while the vehicle was in park. Image: The Verge. Double-check if you’re a passenger?. Image: The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The long-rumored bundle bringing together Apple Music , Apple TV Plus , Apple Arcade , Apple News Plus, and iCloud storage is here. The Individual plan gives subscribers Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade, and iCloud storage (50GB) for $14.95 As Bloomberg noted, a family using one plan that combines Apple Music ($9.99

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

By his own admission, Chris Thür wasn’t the most obvious person to start a music education company. He described the Yousician app as providing an interactive, gamified approach to learning guitar, piano, ukulele, bass or singing — but not too game-like. ” Each time, they had to tell him no. Yousician CEO Chris Thür.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Meet Powder , a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them. Powder wants to build the video infrastructure for social gaming. Powder can capture video content from any platform. You can also capture videos of mobile games.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2020

Image by Epic Games. Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps.

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The Verge

JULY 25, 2021

Twenty years ago, when photorealistic games were still just a faraway dream, companies like Square sent our imaginations soaring before we played, with big-budget intros and cutscenes. It left me in awe, and the video includes a before-and-after comparison, too: Here’s the legendary six-minute Onimusha 3 opening cinematic at 4K 60 fps.

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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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Engadget

APRIL 14, 2025

Of course, if you're after something a little more compact or tailored to a specific use case, we also have you covered with our buying guides for the best earbuds , the best gaming headsets and the best budget earbuds. Not all headphones support them, so youll want to make sure a perspective pair does if that sort of thing excites you.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

One of the biggest bands in the world is coming to one of the biggest games in the world. Today, Epic Games announced that K-pop group BTS will be debuting their next music video on Fortnite ’s party royale island. It’ll be a choreography video for the single “Dynamite,” and it will be airing on September 25th at 8PM ET.

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TechSpot

JULY 13, 2023

Video game developer Digital Eclipse is making a documentary about Karateka, Jordan Mechner's first proper gaming venture that was originally released on the Apple II home computer in 1984. Karateka is, by definition, a martial arts action game, which according to Digital Eclipse made massive leaps in animation, music, and.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Twitch Sings, the streaming platform’s live karaoke game, is shutting down, the company announced. The company says it decided to close down the game effective January 1st, 2021 in order to “invest in broader tools and services that will help support and grow the entire music community on Twitch.”. Image: Twitch.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In just 22 hours, the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has racked up 85 million views, breaking a MrBeast video’s record for most YouTube views in 24 hours. All rights reserved.

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