One of the best parts of playing classic video games is the music. Chiptunes from platforms like Nintendo are a hallmark of retro gaming, but there’s no reason those 8-bit sounds have to stay in the ...

The Very Best's "Let Go" isn't your standard-issue 8-bit-inspired music video. While it has all the fun and side-scrolling action of an 8-bit video, the clip for the indie duo's new track also has ...

Audio has been moving steadily toward higher fidelity and resolution as components become cheaper and more advanced. If it ain’t 24-bit and 192kHz, many people simply aren’t interested. But this week, ...

Welcome to IGN's weekly countdown of the exceptional, fascinating, and absurd: something we like to call Top 10 Tuesday. Every week we'll feature the top ten games, characters, fashion statements or ...

In blistering new music video "Dreamorama," thrashing guitars, yelping vocals and a slamming drum kit replace the electronic blips and beeps that tend to fuel 8-bit animation. After a glitchy intro, ...

A. Video game music is similar to generalized bodies of music in the past, such as the Great American Songbook, top 40, and jazz standards. Because there was a collective experience of consuming video ...

The game is simple: left and right arrows move a be-scarfed avatar through a quiet rural landscape, complete with slate-grey skies and a breeze that echoes in that particularly wintry way. Snowflakes ...

Big-band jazz and video games normally come from different eras, if not different universes. It took Charlie Rosen — Berklee graduate, Broadway composer, lifelong gamer and leader of the 8-Bit Big ...

German developer and musician Alice Zeppa has created an umbrella that uses Piezo sensors to detect rainfall and turn it into chiptunes. German developer and musician Alice Zeppa has created an ...

The 1980s were an amazing time for video games. But it's not just the games themselves that were notable. Red Bull Academy's documentary series "Diggin' in the Carts" digs deep into the history of ...