music games
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The Greatest Rhythm Game You’ve Probably Never Played Is Coming To PS5
If you haven’t played the excellent music game Spin Rhythm XD, good news: it’s coming to PS5 and PS VR 2 in the very near future.
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Paradiddle Is A VR Drum Game You Can Play With A Real Kit
Paradiddle is a VR game about playing the drums. There have been plenty of drumming games for VR over the years, but a lot of them live and die on the idea of air drumming. They ask the player to be fine with a lack of tactile feedback you’d get from playing a real kit.…
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First, Players Destroyed Their Guitar Controllers, Then Developers Destroyed The Game
Who among us hasn’t dreamed of standing on a stage and smashing a guitar? Last weekend, a new Guitar Hero-style game let a few lucky players do just that, turning a real guitar into splinters and shards after they finished their song. Then, in one final, irreversible smash, the developers deleted all traces of the…
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The Rise Of The New Music Games
Since well before Kotaku Melodic, I’ve been writing about and keeping an eye on musical video games. Whenever I talk about “music games,” people tend to think of the same kinds of things — plastic musical instrument peripherals and dance pads, Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution.