Ever since one of my favorite game writers was laid off from 1Up, I’ve been hurting for some Ray Barnholt. His knowledge of retro Japanese games and appreciation for video game music made him the perfect softly spoken game journalist package. Luckily the former host of The Sound Test, a podcast about game music, is back! In zine form! Read all about it after the jump.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
Always good to see some entrepreneurial spirit in games journalism. Sounds like some awesome stuff.