
Please note: production of new episodes of GAMEPLAY ended in 2024. Past episodes are available below, but no new episodes are currently planned.
GAMEPLAY celebrates the vast worlds of video game music, bringing its music, composers and performers to life in each episode.
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A new Final Fantasy title inspires as much excitement for its soundtrack as for the game itself, and 2023’s Final Fantasy 16 is no exception.
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We talk with composer Garry Schyman and share soundtracks that span 30 years of his work in video games.
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Celtic music has inspired numerous video game scores. This week, we’ll explore a variety of Celtic game music through the sounds of whistles and fiddles, pipes, harps and even traditional Gaelic singing.
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Nainita Desai composes irresistible and intricate scores for film, TV and video games. She joins us this week on GAMEPLAY to talk about her interactive music for games including Immortality, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and more.
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From Pac-Man’s dots to Mario’s coins to Sonic’s rings, collecting has always been a part of video games. This week, I’ll share with you a few of the amazing scores I’ve collected throughout this adventure that haven’t yet had a chance to shine, from Assassin’s Creed, the Witcher, Genshin Impact and lots more.
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This week, we explore the joyful soundtrack to tropical exploration game Tchia, which combines voices, folk instruments, orchestra, and ambient natural sounds in a musical celebration of the culture of the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia!
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Composer Jason Graves joins us this week to talk about his scores for blockbuster titles like Tomb Raider and Dead Space, and even a soundtrack he wrote for a video game store!
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This week, we’re celebrating each of the official Grammy nominees in the category of Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media.
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"Instrumentation plays such a huge role in terms of: where are we brought in the world?"
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Classical chops meet video game music with brass ensemble The Game Brass.
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Videogames are full of partnerships, of companions coming together to overcome challenges that are too big to take on alone.
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An ambitious 2017 game with a score combining orchestra and vocals, whose melodies have inspired countless arrangements.
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Composers have found countless ways to illustrate the beauty, mystery, and power of water in videogame music.
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Cyberpunk bartending, planning a spa day for a friend, wining and dining nobles in pre-revolutionary France...
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Explore beloved music from one of the most successful fantasy role-playing games of all time: The Elder Scrolls V: SKYRIM!
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps brings together dazzling animation and stirring music in an approach partly inspired by Disney films.
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Classical music has always been a part of video games, from the earliest arcades to today.
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Videogame scores that take us to places far away through the sounds of long ago.
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A musical celebration of one of the most beloved gothic-horror videogame series of all time.
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"All game developers love music . . . I've never heard 'less is more' when working on a game."