Wii Music
Wii Music
Reviled, mocked, company-destroying: Nintendo’s notorious flop deserves a reevaluation.
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Project DIVA X, or: How I learned to stop worrying and embrace Hatsune Miku as my God
Who the fuck is Hatsune Miku? Some may say she’s a Vocaloid, the poster child for the voice synthesizer software engineered by Crypton Future Media. Others may say she’s just an idol, one of the pure virtual variety, playing shows as a hologram from time to time. Others will attribute her likeness t
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Limp Body Beat makes a musical instrument out of weird fleshy men
Playing artists Sam Rolfes’ and Lars Berg’s “fleshy music game” Limp Body Beat will probably be the closest I’ll ever get to attending one of those Body World exhibits. I hate the physical look of muscles. I cringe at the sight of gore that includes flesh-slicing. I’m not into it. Flesh and anything
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Meditative Anxiety is a strange marriage of music, static, and colors
Playing it by Ear in Meditative Anxiety
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Videogames are helping to keep the symphony orchestra afloat
But they’re still considered to be the ugly stepsister.
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Need more Panoramical? Check out this ethereal interactive journey
With new album Yume, ambient electronica musician Helios seems to recall the beauty of lazing underneath a sun-crested sky. The music soothes by letting high notes drift out to a gold horizon. It seems to lift off from the soft fringes of grass and get carried out on a hot puff of wind. More precise
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Go beyond the music visualizer in today’s Playlist pick
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Panoramical (PC, Mac) BY FERNANDO RAMALLO & DAVID KANAGA Forget the “music visualizer” that has been spinning webs of geometry on your PC since the ’90s. Panoramical finally makes it as outda
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The rhythm game genre is about to get a whole lot darker
You were lured in by the sight of a skeleton astronaut, weren’t you? Or is that just me? The idea of an astronaut left to rot in space grips me as one of the horrors of the future. At the moment, as far as public records show, there are no dead people floating around in space. But we have to suppose
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Prepare for the mind melting audio-visual journey of Panoramical
Probably the most gif-able game this year.
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Neuro Fantasy is a lurid soundtrack experience with none of the bullsh*t
Direct your own piece of emergent cinema.
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This procedurally generated game captures the lurid rituals of a concert
Everyone shuffles in, somehow looking both non-committal and excited. The space is tight-knight, vaguely dingy, and hot from all the breaths and bodies. People are talking, but not real talk—at most, small talk, to diffuse the tension of waiting. Then, the lights go black and everything stops for on
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Think you’re good at rhythm games? Try mastering Steve Reich’s Clapping Music then
Welcome to life after Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, where every music game feels incomplete without J.K. Simmons’ Fletcher yelling, “are you rushing or are you dragging?” While Whiplash does not yet exist in game form, at least there’s Clapping Music, which may induce similar levels of angst in player