Joey Brown is an interview reporter, editor, and lifelong gamer with experience in nearly every genre from space sims and MMORPGs to metroidvanias and city builders. He has sat down with industry ...

Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Featuring sounds from Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, Contra, ...

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In the opening scene of Silent Hill, it’s the first time players finally get to hear the notorious siren. This is probably the sound effect that defined the rest of the Silent Hill franchise and is ...

Distorted or muffled sounds while playing games not only cause trouble but also worsen the gaming experience. There can be many causes of this problem, like incorrect sound settings on Windows, ...

26 years later, System Shock 2's music is a crucial part of its level design, and turning it off is a tragedy Debate: Which videogame songs are best for unwinding after a long day? Debate: Are ...

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From the squelching sounds of soggy corpses to the recognizable sounds of a galaxy far, far away, sound design is the art of creating a believable sonic world. Whenever a video game set in the Star ...

Narrator: These are Buddy and Gyoza, and their sniffles and grunts aren't being recorded for a kid's movie. They're actually being used for ambient sounds in the game Halo. [animals snorting and ...

It’s easy to forget how much work goes into making a video game, particularly the AAA kind. We tend to associate games with one or two visionaries – the Miyamotos, the Levines, the Kojimas – while ...

A lot of us younger car enthusiasts can probably partially, or even wholly, attribute our obsessions with the automotive world to racing simulators like Gran Turismo and Forza. Gran Turismo was ...

Four video game sound designers explain the thinking behind some of the world's most recognizable video game sounds. Featuring sounds from the Legend of Zelda, Half-Life, The Sims, Minecraft, Dota 2 ...