Video Games Live is set to make its Japanese debut this September. Titled “Video Games Live in Japan,” the concert will be held from September 21-22.

Over two consecutive years Square Enix has been the only developer at the Tokyo Game Show to devote a booth solely to its music department. Next to a rack of forty-four albums published by Square Enix and a three-dimensional version of the lime green cube familiar to visitors of the publisher’s website, promotion coordinator [...]

Hiroki Ogawa is the director of Nobuo Uematsu’s recording studio Dog Ear Records. Together with the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy orchestral concert, he has traveled outside Japan and encountered firsthand the enthusiasm that international audiences have for Uematsu’s videogame music. Now more than ever, the director says, the staff of Dog [...]

Since the website opened late last year, the stated goal of VGMdb has been to comprehensively archive the world’s videogame music albums. Other resources predate the work undertaken by the database’s countless contributors, but few have managed to cast as wide a net while keeping translated track lists, scans and release information as well [...]

Over the course of the past year, Game Music 4 All has organized several live concerts in the Los Angeles area. Tomorrow night, the latest in the series will see Mega Man rock band the Megas performing live at the West Coast Wig Out in North Hollywood, alongside six other California-based nerdcore bands. [...]

Since Uraken first began DJ’ing, his electronic music has been described as powerful and uplifting. In addition to appearing at live performances, beginning in 1996 he organized a monthly event called “Hardcore Kitchen.” The first of its kind in Japan, it introduced Tokyo to the UK Hardcore scene. The musician has since [...]

The lines and crowds of the Tokyo Game Show can make it a difficult environment for settling into titles whose selling points are their epic storylines or in depth gameplay. It tends to be that the most immediately appealing of games often leave the best impression, a phenomenon that this year has worked in [...]

When looking at the magnitude of music composed by Yuzo Koshiro for the Etrian Odyssey series of role-playing games, its breadth amounts to a small kingdom of sounds. The original soundtracks for the first two titles make up five discs. In addition, a drama CD, two Super Arrange records, a piano collection and [...]

In May of this year, the Tokyo-based band The Outer Rim published their self-titled debut album. Composed primarily by bassist Jeff Curry, the musician imagined the spoken drama that bookends the music tracks, which are performed by professional videogame voice actors, as a dark and brooding outer space tale reminiscent of James Cameron’s [...]

On the same week that Secret of Mana reached North American virtual consoles, the latest album by its composer went on sale on his private record label in Japan. The most recent published soundtrack by Hiroki Kikuta is “In the Sky On the Water.”
 

 
A collection of music to the 2004 PC game [...]