Aafter several years of teasers and high-profile investments, this month’s Summer Game Fest brought fans a first look at Stormgate: a free-to-play real-time strategy (RTS) game from Frost Giant Studios. Plenty of Stormgate‘s details – including a wild, futuristic future filled with mechs and demons – are eye-catching, but the real promise lies in Frost…
Rock The Spacebar is a twice-monthly column investigating the great music that underpins your favorite games. this week, Dom Peppiatt looks back on a PlayStation juggernaut – Spyro the Dragon – and reflects on how an unlikely video game for children kickstarted a love for one of Britain’s most infamous new wave exports. My parents…
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Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is going to take a lot of Fire Emblem fans by surprise. A violent hack and slash spin-off may seem like the last thing Three Houses‘ strategic RPG needs, but developer Omega Force’s latest title is a near-mandatory play for any Three Houses fans. Of course, there is one big…
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“I don’t enjoy being a public figure and living my life through that lens,” Soccer Mommy’s Sophie Allison explains from her home in Nashville one quiet morning a week before the release of her new album. Since releasing her debut record ‘Clean’ in 2018, she’s become one of indie rock’s best-loved and most-respected songwriters, even…
Big call, but Van Halen are America’s finest hard rock band. Formed by Dutch immigrant brothers Alex and Eddie Van Halenhigh-energy frontman David Lee Roth and underrated bassist/backing vocalist Michael Anthonythe bombastic four-piece took the early 70s, predominately British, loud rock template and brought it screaming into the new decade, revolutionizing multiple aspects of the…
Nick Cave has laid out his argument that listening to opposing ideas makes for a healthier society and that free speech isn’t a right but is a tool to “liberate the soul of our world”. In the latest installation of his The Red Hand Files fan Q&A website, the singer-songwriter responded to two fans about…
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Last year’s announcement of Closure/Continuation It was certainly surprising and exciting, but it was also kind of inevitable. After all, prog/art rock quartet Porcupine Tree (arguably the most beloved cult band in modern music) went on hiatus shortly after they released 2009’s The Incident. Founding vocalist/guitarist Steven Wilson embarked on an lucrative solo career while…
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Festival season – it’s all fun and games until you look at the set times and realise every single act you want to see are playing at the same time. Until the power to clone ourselves becomes reality rather than sci-fi fantasy, there are some tough choices ahead this summer, not least at Glastonbury’s big…
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From viral meme sensations to hip-hop’s rising stars, it’s been a busy year for 23-year-olds Joey Valence and Braedan Lugue. What started as the pair writing funny rap songs in Valence’s bedroom over a year ago has led to them gaining millions of fans from all over the world, and they’re only at the start…
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On the day Liss released their debut album earlier this month (June 10), the band played a special gig for family and friends in their hometown of Copenhagen. During the show, musician friends of the Danish band joined them on stage to sing the parts of Søren Holm, the band’s frontman who lost his life…
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