I still maintain that we’re living in a glorious golden age of original video game soundtracks, but there’s nothing wrong with tapping your foot to whatever is currently dwelling on the top 40 charts! While you’ll seldom see licensed tracks appear outside of sports and sandbox games these days, there was an age where developers couldn’t get enough of professionally produced tracks. And amongst so many of them, here are ten of the best.
From digitised classics to far-out future concepts, there’s no shortage of great wheels that you can virtually drive on the console of your choice. Here’s ten of the best, that make me want to shout POOOOOOOOOWER!
Brutal Legend is still worth a buy if you’re looking for something out of the ordinary, a Rock ‘n Rollin’ RPG of action and featuring some of the finest cameos around, including the late great Lemmy Killmister of Motorhead. If that isn’t good enough, then how about a free version?
I loved the game that seemed to make heavy metal album covers of yore come alive, but it seemed we'd never get a second such game. I still think the chances are slim, but at least Tim Schafer still believes.
Psychonauts 2 is sitting on a pile of donations that has raised $2 million of the $3.3 million that Double Fine needs to help partly fund the sequel. There’s still 35 days left to go, and I’d wager that Double Fine hits their goal within the next week or two. And that’s good for them! No complaints here. Because if Psychonauts 2 is a crowdfunding success, it could pave the way to getting another Double Fine property resurrected. The gnarliest, most metal game of all time: Brutal Legend.
So you’ve got a great game. Reviewers love it, you haven’t had to bribe any industry people to be positive over your product and early audience tests have revealed that people are excited. Well hold your horses, because there’s still a chance that your game could be a bigger flop than Waterworld. We’ve seen plenty of great games undone by …
A bunch of not so old games are getting remastered for newer platforms. Here's ten that we want to see get the same treatment.
Double Fine boss Tim Schafer would love to revisit his heavy metal love letter Brutal Legend in a sequel.
Every year in the gaming industry, there is a familiar buzz that starts building …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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