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• Africa by Toto: the Minecraft edition

  Memes with Toto’s hit “Africa” are all the rage right now and Minecraft player and Youtube user grande1899’s latest video is the cherry on the cake. It’s just under three minutes long, so short enough for you to have a quick sing along wherever you are.

• Ubisoft releases Assassin's Creed Odyssey musical theme as a single

  Say what you will about triple-AAA games and annual releases like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – they’re still producing some good music.

• Final Fantasy 15 DLC: Legendary composer Yasunori Mitsuda on returning to Square Enix after 20 years for Episode Ignis

  Final Fantasy 15’s Episode Ignis DLC marks a major milestone for Square – the return of one of its most beloved collaborators.

• Is Gal Metal the best game about heavy metal drumming schoolgirls ever, or is it just the only one?

  DMM Games has released two new trailers for the upcoming Nintendo Switch rhythm game Gal Metal, featuring moshing and Japanese schoolgirls in equal measure.

• Harmonix announces Super Beat Sports, a musical sports game for Switch with shades of Rhythm Heaven

  The masters of music games are bringing their next game to the Switch.

• Rumour: Project Rap Rabbit unites Parappa and Gitaroo Man developers

  There may be a rhythm game project in the works that unites some of the genre’s best.

• Listen to the song Ellie was playing in The Last of Us Part 2 reveal trailer

  The full, original song Ellie sang in that Last of Us 2 trailer.

• Buy the Destiny: Rise of Iron soundtrack from Bungie, get an exclusive emblem and a discount

  Destiny fans: the Bungie store has updated with stacks of new merch, including a special digital edition of the anticipated soundtrack.

• DJ Yoda teams with Gamer Disco for History of Gaming AV show and tour

  First gig set for IMAX in October.

• 30 years on, Metroid's composer reflects on the score

  Metroid composer Hirokazu Tanaka has shared a message with the game’s fans to celebrate Metroid’s 30th anniversary.

• Get ready for No Man's Sky with the complete soundtrack

  No Man’s Sky is out next week, but the soundtrack is currently available on YouTube for free.

• Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X arrives in Europe next month, demo out August 9

  SEGA has great news for those in Europe itching to try Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X.

• Rock Band 4's first expansion includes a playable rockumentary

  Rock Band 4 expansion Rock Band Rivals is more than just an excuse to issue new hardware.

• Watch this ace documentary about Japanese video game music

  It’s Friday. Watch the first part of this awesome game music documentary.

• Music to heist to: Payday 2's musical masterpiece

  Payday 2 is an intense heist-em-up. To hammer home the epic action and tense stealth play it needed a great soundtrack and boy does it have one hell of a score. VG247’s Sam Clay spoke to the composer Simon Viklund to get a peek inside his mind.

• Bungie releases entrancing song from Destiny soundtrack

  At the Activision booth at E3 they had a 122-ft. superwidescreen projection screen called the Ronut (it wrapped around where viewers stood to watch) showing off their games. It had a sort of demo reel for Destiny in the rotation, and Bungie today released the track from the game that played over the reel. It’s […]

• New Silent Hill Downpour trailer debuts at TGS

  A new trailer for the latest installment in Konami’s long-running Silent Hill series debuted at TGS this week.

• Report: Sony debuting an iTunes-like media service for PS3 and PSP later today

  Connect is dead. Long live whatever this thing is gonna be called!

• Monster SingStore update for March 7

  According to this, Sony’s SingStore – home to tracks for SingStar PS3 – is going to receive 48 new tracks on March 7. And here they are. Aha “The Sun Always Shines On TV” Alice Cooper “Poison ” Big Brovaz “Nu-Flow” Bill Joel “Uptown Girl” Blu Cantrell “Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)” Blur “End of […]