By Thomas Quillfeldt Ultra-violent (yet somehow lighthearted) first-person shooter Shadow Warrior 2 is out this week on PC via Steam, GOG and Humble. To celebrate the game’s goofiness, 80’s legend Stan Bush—he of The Touch and Transformers: The Movie fame—has played his part with new single Warrior. The limited edition...
By Thomas Quillfeldt 1877: Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. 1948-1949: 45 rpm and 33 1⁄3 rpm vinyl formats go head to head to replace the 78. 1975: Vinyl sales peak in the UK; ABBA are popular. 2015: UK vinyl sales climb to 2.1 million units—a 21-year high and an 1024%...
By Thomas Quillfeldt If you look at the games that have been awarded 10/10 by the biggest websites, the various “top 100 games” lists knocking about and the top ranked games on Metacritic and Gamerankings, certain titles come up again and again. What unites them? Bloody great music for...
By Thomas Quillfeldt and Kirsty Birkett-Stubbs Pokémon GO is the 800-pound gorilla of mobile gaming. That is to say, it’s BIG, even if the initial gigantic wave of pop culture hysteria has broken somewhat. And every blog needs some Pokémon GO #content, am I right? Even the NME.com took some time off...
By Thomas Quillfeldt Off-beat first-person shooter Shadow Warrior 2 is out on PC on October 13 2016 and on consoles in early 2017. At one point during development, the team at Flying Wild Hog and publisher Devolver Digital decided that the game was lacking in something—namely, sufficient quantities of Bush. Naturally,...
By Thomas Quillfeldt Released in August 2015 across consoles and PC, Mike Bithell Games’ Volume is a stealth action puzzler that mixes the mythos of Robin Hood with the neon sci-fi of Tron. Volume saw BAFTA-nominated composer David Housden join game designer Mike Bithell for their second collaboration. The first,...
By Frederik Lauridsen AKA Blip Blop Wax... A cartoon has been going around the Internet for a while and is even attached to the top of one of my favourite vinyl forums. It shows two men having a discussion in front of a fancy turntable setup with the caption: “The...
Laced Records have teamed up with 65daysofstatic and Hello Games to bring you No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe across digital, CD and vinyl formats. After the track ‘Debutante’ accompanied the first reveal of No Man’s Sky in 2013, the band spent over a year composing original music for the game’s soundtrack. No Man’s Sky’s procedurally generated...
