Discover the surge in rhythm games, Godzilla's cameo in a new expansion, and the rise of "One Beat Heart." Dive into today's ...

Inspired by the Mario & Luigi RPG series and Chrono Trigger, Keylocker is a cyberpunk, turn-based rhythm JRPG in which you play as the singer and songwriter, Bobo. Drawing inspiration from classics ...

PaRappa the Rapper designer Masaya Matsuura has been called the father of music games. Thing is, he doesn’t believe there are music games. “Strictly speaking I do not believe that ‘Music Games’ as a ...

What do you get when you combine the high-octane combat of a first-person shooter with highly stylized colors and heart-pumping music in rhythm games? You get rhythm shooters--a subgenre of games that ...

Usually, when you mesh together two popular genres into one game, you’re asking for trouble. That’s because, most of the time, developers forsake the elements of one type of game in order to make the ...

R&B has never stayed in one lane — from Mary J. Blige’s hip-hop soul to today’s alternative sounds, it’s a story of evolution ...

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Now that Headbangers: Rhythm Royale has had some time to breathe, I really can’t help but feel like this minigame based battle royale is still not quite on par with Fall Guys. It’s close, but certain ...

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