Gaming

You can already use the Steam Deck as a music machine, with Bitwig Studio, VCV Rack, more

It's a portable gaming machine - but unlike other such devices, the Steam Deck is also an open, handheld, Linux-powered...

itch.io indie gaming distribution for musicians: free open-source Scritch player and more

With gaming giant Epic buying Bandcamp, why not let music-makers put their albums on indie gaming darling itch.io, too? Thanks...

Final Fantasy come true: Square Enix posts 5500+ game music tracks to YouTube

Game music: it's a spiritual thing. A body thing. A Dawn of Souls thing. And instead of letting the pirates...

Put that magic spell on me: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth is coming to Oculus Quest in minigolf form

Sure, maybe you weren't sold on the metaverse, but what if you had 36 holes of Labyrinth-themed minigolf in VR?...

PatchXR creator tool, for building complete musical worlds in VR, opens sign-ups for beta

Patch we've seen already to be an unparalleled tool for building interactive musical instruments and complete immersive worlds in VR....

An album released on Nintendo 64 cartridge – the next nerdy Remute ROM release

Vinyl? Done. Tape? Ha, as if. German artist Remute is using obsolete game technology to release music - and the...

NVIDIA’s Omniverse and Studio let you create 3D worlds together – and they’re free to use

It's a simple pitch to Windows and Linux users: so long as you have a compatible RTX GPU to render,...

MetaHumans and ray tracing, as Unreal powers The Matrix and MegaGrants

Let's not get sucked into any mention of the "metaverse" - from the standpoint of pure graphics power on mere-mortal...

Radiohead’s arty KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION for PC and Mac is free now

Like a spooky haunted Guggenheim Museum, the immersive art-y game world looking back on Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac is...