I nearly lost it when Theatrhythm was announced for the Nintendo 3DS. I was already excited about the 3D visuals offered up by the platform, and a dream game combining the music of Final Fantasy with rhythmic elements was not only completely unexpected, but was seemingly too good to be true. But true it was, [...]
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Sometime around mid-June of 2008, Dale North and I flipped the switch and OSV was born. At the time we covered a pretty wide variety of topics, but things have since narrowed down to game music as a focus. You can read more about how the site came [...]
Okay, so OSV wasn’t out in full force at E3 this year, and that’s mainly because I was covering the event for Destructoid! I did see and hear a lot of great things, so I wanted to give a run-down of coverage I did over on Destructoid for you to check out: Unchained Blades impressions [...]
Purchase: CDJapan | Play-Asia I still get a chuckle out of the fact that Yuzo Koshiro is the man behind the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune soundtracks. Not only do they feature almost exclusively trance music, but this is some pretty authentic stuff that you might hear on a dance floor out late in a club. [...]
[Originally posted on Destructoid] We now know that Kinect Star Wars was not the hardcore Kinect experience that it was originally touted to be. As a collection of Kinect mini-games best suited for younger players, I figured the game’s music would take a similarly lighthearted and playful approach, but the score composed by Gordy Haab [...]
[Originally posted on Destructoid] Diablo III has easily been one of my most anticipated games of the past five years (c’mon, we all knew it would be coming someday), and now it’s less than a week away. A lot has changed at Blizzard Entertainment since the release of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction in 2001, [...]
[Originally published on Destructoid] We’ve been talking a lot about Retro City Rampage and its soundtrack dating all the way back to 2010. The game’s finally due out on nearly every platform in May, and after our favorable review of the soundtrack and a look at the limited edition vinyl, we’re sitting down with composers [...]
This is an album that’s sure to confuse. UNDER DEFEAT was a top down shmup title released on both arcade and ported over to Dreamcast in 2006, and even recently was ported to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as UNDER DEFEAT HD in 2011. Here we are in 2012, and this album is being released [...]
Looking forward to Etrian Odyssey IV for the Nintendo 3DS? After checking out the game’s website and hearing the three samples from the soundtrack, I certainly am. The three samples sound remarkably similar to the Live Music by Piano and Strings Super Arrange Version album, and I immediately noticed the distinct lack of retro FM/PC [...]
We can say we’re very curious about NOX Audio’s Admiral headset that we saw at Comic Con last year, but while they’re still working on finalizing that beast, we wanted to take a look at NOX Audio’s Scout Portable Headset. While they appear to be earphones more than a headset, the compact design offers more [...]
In addition to releasing a ton of great music by composers Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, and the rest of the team at SuperSweep, the SuperSweep label has been host to a number of great music releases, some of which we’ve covered here on OSV. Another benefit that the gain by owning their own label is [...]
If you don’t know what Neurovision is, you need to find out! In our OSVOSTOTY 2009 awards, I noted that it was my favorite album of the year, but at the time we unfortunately did not have an ‘other’ category, so it was relegated to an honorable mention. In a nutshell, Neurovision is Square Enix [...]