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Composer makes Metroid even more eerie with new synth soundtrack

Composer makes Metroid even more eerie with new synth soundtrack

2 min read News
In 1986, Metroid was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Since then, Hirokazu Tanaka, Metroid’s composer, has been revered for helping create the game’s iconic, eerie atmosphere. To up Metroid’s creeping feeling of loneliness some 30 years later, composer Luminist is rerecording the game
Classic videogame worlds reimagined as subway maps

Classic videogame worlds reimagined as subway maps

1 min read News
Few moments are more familiar in an old-school dungeon-crawler than the opening of a treasure chest, only to find a dungeon map. But if—for whatever whim of your fancy—you’ve been hoping instead for a subway map to unfold itself from those chests, you’re in luck: graphic designer Matthew Stevenson h