OSVOSTOTY 2017: Community Question Edition
Now that Brenna, Ryan, and myself have had our say on the year in game music, we want to hear from you the OSV community. Let us know in the comments what are your favorite game soundtracks and...
View ArticleCommunity Question: Does your pet like game music?
Does your pet like game music, or does it drive them nuts? Tell us all about it.
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Composer Lena Raine talks Celeste Soundtrack & working in Game Audio
Celeste is a recently released indie game from Matt Makes Games that is available on multiple platforms. The game has been getting a lot of attention for its stunning visual design, and challenging...
View ArticleWherein we discuss all things Scum’s Wish / Kuzu no Honkai (Review: OSTs and...
Lewd. Tawdry. Filthy. Perverse. Smut. For decades, those were the words that I associated with virtually all “hentai” Japanese animation and erotic games (eroge). They may have had better plots and...
View ArticleMatron Maestras – Azusa Chiba (Spotlight)
This article is another entry into the Matron Maestras series, a collection of articles which focus on women composers in the vgm industry. Today I’ll be talking about Azusa Chiba, one of the composers...
View ArticleMatron Maestras – Junko Tamiya (Spotlight)
Capcom has produced and nurtured a variety of female composers over the past few decades. It’s not a huge exaggeration to say that they have been probably one of the most prolific in terms of having so...
View ArticleMy Top Five Pieces of Scary Video Game Music (Ryan’s Picks)
As Halloween approaches, over at Original Sound Version we are again looking at scary video game music. Back in 2015 I wrote Game Soundtracks For Your Soul Level 13 where I highlighted some of my most...
View ArticleOSVOSTOTY 2018: BRENNA’S PICKS
Yet another year come and gone and it’s been a year of fantastic VGM. Unfortunately, it’s been another year where I didn’t get to play a whole heck of a lot of games, though what I did had some...
View ArticleOSVOSTOTY 2018: RYAN’S PICKS
2018 has come to an end and it has been another great year game music. Many folks have written and shared their picks for best video game soundtracks of the year, and now it’s our turn here at OSV. If...
View ArticleThe Legacy of KeyGen Music: A Look at Tunes of the Key Cracker Era
The vast majority of us have been horrible people at some point or another and pirated software or at least emulated games on our computers at least once in our lives. Getting past the morality of it,...
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