30 years of night: A musical history of Castlevania
The first Castlevania game was released in Japan 30 years ago today. Known there as Demon Castle Dracula, Konami’s…
Let's Playlist
In Let’s Playlist, the Gameological staff assembles a themed lineup of video game music and packages it in a YouTube playlist. But we’re just providing the start. It’s up to you to nominate your own candidates and fill out the list.
3-D dreams and 2-D extremes: 1996 in video game music
19XX was simultaneously the end of Capcom’s 1942/1943 shooters and their salvation. Trading in the deeply awkward World…
Beat the heat: 10 totally chill video game summer jams
Most songs on video game soundtracks are functionally named, reflecting the time and place they appear in the game and…
Bass of operations: 10 homey themes from video game headquarters
The Suikoden games never shy away from depicting war as truly devastating. Suikoden III tells the series’ most fully…
Digital love: 10 sexy songs from video games
Buried in L.A. Noire’s vast soundtrack of dramatic orchestral and jazz pieces are several period-appropriate original…
Wintry mix: 12 video game songs in the spirit of the season
The best winter-level themes feel more like a natural extension of the landscape than composed pieces of music. Since…
Traveling tunes: 10 methods of gaming transport and their moving themes
Even more than catching monsters or pitting them against each other for profit and glory, Pokémon is really about…
Exit music (for a video game): 11 songs worth sitting through the credits
Super Mario Bros. 2 introduced elements of a stage-play motif into the series, with a drawn curtain framing its…
Hello, Caelondia!: 9 in-game performances of original songs
On Bastion’s official soundtrack, Rucks, the carburetor-throated narrator, muses that one of the worst things about the…
The good with the bad: 9 great songs from not-so-great games
Is Silver Surfer for the NES a bad game? It’s impossible to tell. The game is just too maddeningly difficult to make a…