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And the first Grammy for video game music goes to...

And the first Grammy for video game music goes to...

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Valhalla has won the Grammy Awards' first ever video game category music prize. Specifically, the award was for composer Stephanie Economou's soundtrack to Valhalla's enjoyable 2022 expansion Dawn of Ragnarök, which won in the newly-created Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games & Other Interactive Media category. The score beat Austin Wintory's soundtrack for Alien's Fireteam Elite, Bear McCreary's work on Call of Duty Vanguard, Richard Jacques' Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack and Christoper Tin's score for Old World. Read more

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40+ Valentine’s Day Gifts for Him (That Aren’t Another Tie)

40+ Valentine’s Day Gifts for Him (That Aren’t Another Tie)

Every year we wonder what to get the men in our lives. Not this year. These are the best Valentine’s Day gifts for him! Although women are traditionally the largest gift recipient demographic on Valentine’s Day, that doesn’t mean leaving the guys out entirely. The husbands, partners, boyfriends, coparents, men in our lives certainly deserve to be recognized! They fill our days with love and laughter and lots more, so we definitely want to find them something special. But it is just us, or does it kinda feel like shopping for the guys is harder than shopping for the ladies?...

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Review: The Pathless - Slick, Open-World Traversal Transitions To Switch Solidly

Review: The Pathless - Slick, Open-World Traversal Transitions To Switch Solidly

A Link to the Path.Having hit it out of the (water) park with its debut ABZÛ in 2016, Giant Squid landed The Pathless on PS5 just as the console launched in November 2020. The game provided the kind of audiovisual spectacle that would satisfy early adopters hankering after something to show off their next-gen kit, so you’d be forgiven for thinking a Switch port was entirely improbable. However, here we are, and Giant Squid, together with publisher Annapurna Interactive, has brought us yet another enormous open world squished lovingly onto a handheld screen.The plot of The Pathless is not the...

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The WiC64 Brings Classic Commodores Online, Google Maps Included

The WiC64 Brings Classic Commodores Online, Google Maps Included

A computing platform is never really dead unless people stop developing new software for it. By that measure, the Commodore 64 is alive and well: new games, demos, and utilities are still being released on a regular basis. Getting those new programs onto an old computer was always a bit of a hassle though, requiring either an SD card adapter for the Commodore or a direct cable connection from an internet-connected PC. Luckily, there’s now a simpler way to get your latest software updates thanks to a WiFi adapter called WiC64.  This adapter plugs into the expansion port of a...

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Best Horror Game 2022

Best Horror Game 2022

We had a big year for the horror genre when it comes to film, but horror in video games did not go unnoticed either. New titles like Martha is Dead stood along side longer-running franchises like Dying Light, and even some of our most popular film franchises made the transition to gaming, like Evil Dead. With games like The Last of Us and Resident Evil frequently releasing and re-releasing, 2022 was the year that these games stood a chance. Here are the nominees for Best Horror Game 2022:   Evil Dead: The Game Writer: Jed Whitaker Console: PCScore: 7Price: $39.99 If you’re...

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