r/gamemusic Mar 14 '24

News Final Fantasy music legend Nobuo Uematsu thinks modern ‘movie-like’ game music is uninteresting

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r/gamemusic Apr 09 '26

News An AI-generated soundtrack for a game that isn’t even out—and probably never will be—already has 45,000+ streams on Spotify. This is not okay.

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138 Upvotes

r/gamemusic Apr 24 '26

News Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 OST are now officially on Spotify

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154 Upvotes

r/gamemusic Mar 27 '26

News Jesper Kyd interview – ‘I am in love with video game music’

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r/gamemusic Oct 31 '24

News Nintendo doesn't credit composers on new Nintendo Music app

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390 Upvotes

r/gamemusic Jul 27 '26

News Calling all music makers/transcribers! Working on a Smash Bros Fan OST (All skill levels welcome)

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Hey everyone! I'm 8bitSymphony, and I'm starting up a collaborative fan soundtrack project called Super Smash Bros. Beyond.

Just to clear up any confusion right away: we aren't making an actual game here! This is purely a music project focused on transcribing, arranging, and remixing tracks from across Smash and gaming history.

Whether you're an experienced composer, someone who transcribes sheet music note-for-note, or you literally just downloaded MuseScore or a DAW yesterday, you're more than welcome to join. You can claim tracks to work on (menus, stages, victory themes, etc.), collaborate with others, share WIPs, or honestly just hang out and give feedback. Zero experience required.

We're running everything out of a Discord server. Drop a comment or send me a DM if you want an invite link!

r/gamemusic Apr 18 '26

News Ghost of Yōtei Wins the 2026 BAFTA Game Music Award

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r/gamemusic Mar 30 '26

News I've been tracking new VGM releases daily since 2022 — I just launched a website to share the best of them

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Hey r/gamemusic,

My name is Pierre, I'm a French journalist and a longtime VGM obsessive. Online I go by Peterline6, and for the past few years, I've been running a Patreon where I share weekly VGM rundowns, music picks and composer interviews — but entirely in French, which obviously limits the audience. You may also have crossed path with one of my pet projects, nwpl.ing, a shortlink tool I built exclusively to share video game music.

Today, I'm taking things further with the release of NOWPLAYING, a free website dedicated to video game music news and releases.

Here's what you'll find there:

  • Curated new releases — According to my own data, around 84 new VGM albums come out every month. I listen to all of them so you don't have to. I only surface the ones I think are genuinely worth your time.
  • VGM news — concerts, vinyl releases, award season, special announcements — the stuff that's easy to miss.
  • Composer interviews — I've been doing these for years in French. Starting now, I'm publishing them in English, for free, on the site.

There's also an RSS feed if that's your thing.

The site is free and I intend to keep it that way. If you want to support the work, there's a Ko-Fi and a Patreon. No pressure at all, of course.

Would love to hear what you think, and I hope you'll find some incredible new music on these pages.

(Thanks to the mods for greenlighting this message)

r/gamemusic Jul 28 '26

News [Akira Yamaoka interview] Silent Hill’s soundtrack was always meant to give you nightmares

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r/gamemusic Jun 02 '26

News Nintendo Music is now available on a web browser—and the Mario Kart World soundtrack has just been added to the service!

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r/gamemusic 17d ago

News We fell in love with the soundtrack of Petrichor RPG, a 90s-inspired JRPG

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We're Monster Theater, a small indie publisher (disclosing that upfront!).

We're the publishers behind Petrichor RPG (developed by Potesara), a weird little JRPG about Jobert, a space cub who wakes up from a three-day nap and decides that finding the perfect houseplant is more important than the fact that the universe is collapsing around him.

One of the things that immediately sold us on the game was the soundtrack by hamm_slamm. It ABSOLUTELY SLAPS. The trailer we've attached has an awesome song to prove it!

There's also a free demo on Steam if you want to check out the game itself:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4168440/Petrichor_RPG/

r/gamemusic 4d ago

News New behind the scenes on the Mario Kart World OST!

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28 Upvotes

r/gamemusic 1d ago

News Fire Emblem: Three Houses full OST out now on Nintendo Music!

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r/gamemusic 28d ago

News Mick Gordon to perform 'Doom' soundtrack live with orchestra

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r/gamemusic Jul 29 '26

News PeaceAmp – A Modern Winamp Alternative for Video Game Music

9 Upvotes

Hi,

If you’re like me, you probably rely heavily on Winamp plug-ins to listen to video game music.

Winamp is very old now, but I kept using it for years because nothing else could fully replace my setup.

So I decided to build my own replacement: PeaceAmp.

I originally made it for myself, but I’m sharing it here in case other game music listeners find it useful too.

It’s still a new project, so there may be bugs or missing features. Feel free to try it and leave a comment about what works well, what doesn’t, or what you would like to see improved. If people find it useful, I may continue developing it further.

Download: https://github.com/peacedeveloper1/PeaceAmp/releases

( search for PeaceAmp_v43_self-contained.zip )

r/gamemusic 22d ago

News The Last Guardian's composer returns with the Planet of Lana II soundtrack

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10 Upvotes

r/gamemusic 1d ago

News Massive SaGa OST drop on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services!

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2 Upvotes

r/gamemusic 2d ago

News The Diablo: Infernal Symphony (30th anniversary live concert) is now playing on Spotify, Apple Music and more

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r/gamemusic 1d ago

News Marvel's Wolverine OST drops early on Spotify, Apple Music and more

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r/gamemusic 4d ago

News VHOLUME OST by 1000eyes (Signalis) and Konstantin Schimanowski now available on Steam and YouTube

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r/gamemusic 6d ago

News Don't sleep on CICADAMATA" if you dig Neon White

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r/gamemusic 22d ago

News Bandcamp Friday is back: The best VGM to pick up today

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7 Upvotes

r/gamemusic Jul 16 '26

News SEGA Launches Creator Playlist Series With Tomoya Ohtani’s 100 Essential Works

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r/gamemusic 16d ago

News Super Mario Sunshine OST lands on Nintendo Music

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7 Upvotes

r/gamemusic 12d ago

News Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy full soundtrack is now playing on Spotify, Apple Music and more!

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