Game soundtracks should not be underestimated. Not only do they make games more pleasurable for the ears, but a quality musical score can elevate the entire game experience to something extra special with goosebumps. The following 10 games are all nominated in the Soundtrack of the Year category for this year's Golden Joystick Awards. Only one of them can win.
Sometimes, international perception of Australia has us so backwards that we’re thought to ride kangaroos down the street and consider that hat with the corks as the height of fashion. But according to figures detailing Australian and New Zealand game sales for the first half of 2012, the notion of the contrary antipode might be more fact than fiction.
The 2nd Annual Canadian Videogame Awards were held in Vancouver last night, celebrating the Great White North's considerable influence in gaming, and recognizing some of its most notable contributions.
Among the night's top winners were BioWare Edmonton's Mass Effect 2, which took home trophies in the Game of the Year, Best Console Game, Best Game Design and Best Writing...
We’re still in the center of a game release maelstrom. The TDar crew battens down the hatches and endures by gabbing about the biggest games of the week. Also included: Transformers, Top 7s, farts, Robocop, rants about packaging and the ESRB, puns, shout outs, and as always, love...
One misconception about Canadians is that we spend our lives obsessing over hockey, guzzling superior beer and adding extra vowels to our words. This is simply not true – we do all that, and also make and play a ton of videogames. In honour (that's honour with a 'u') of this, the Canadian Videogame Awards are returning to Vancouver this May for a second year, and today its producers released the list of finalists vying for the 2011 cup...
Mortal Kombat Week is coming to a close, but we’ve still got a little Lin Kuei love left in us. You may have noticed we’ve been more than a little obsessed with the Mortal Kombat Theme as of late, so we hope you don’t mind us dragging out The Immortal’s timeless jam once again to punctuate highlights from this week’s best VG video. See all the trailers showcased in their entirety after the jump...
Drew Karpyshyn, a lead writer for
BioWare blockbusters like Mass Effect 2 and Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic, has announced he will be parting ways with the Canadian developer to focus on non-gaming projects...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the big
winner at last night's Interactive Achievement Awards (IAAs) in Las
Vegas, scoring a total of five top honors including the coveted Game
of the Year title. Rest assured, the likes of Portal 2, Uncharted 3,
and Super Mario 3D Land were also shown some industry love...
Saving you time once again, we’ve chopped together all the kickass trailers from this week into a single minute of glorious montage (montage!). The song used is “Stand Your Ground” is by is the first track off the Homefront Original Soundtrack, by Scott Cresswell and the game’s composer Matthew Harwood. See all the trailers below in their entirety
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