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#theguardian.com. × Video game music has arrived on the festival circuit – and it’s only going to get bigger. ‘It is impossible to ignore video game music now,’ says Tommy Pearson, founder and artistic director of the inaugural London Soundtrack festival

#theguardian.com. × ‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans. As they get ready to tour its mournful music, the band reflect on Disco Elysium, the video game whose soundtrack won them a Bafta – and plenty of new followers

#theguardian.com. × Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’. Diggs’ harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band’s world-building – setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs – is no less dramat

#theguardian.com. × Black Mirror: first trailer for new season offers more tech nightmares. Netflix will bring ‘six electrifying stories’ from Charlie Brooker to the small screen in April with stars including Peter Capaldi and Issa Rae

#theguardian.com. × Josh Berry: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet). The comedian shares his list, and it’s mostly a curriculum of comedy classics. Then it gets existential

#theguardian.com. × Are AI-generated video games really on the horizon?. Microsoft and Google have both recently released new generative AI models that simulate video game worlds – with notable limitations. What can they do?

#theguardian.com. × Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles. Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that’s just the start

#theguardian.com. × Next James Bond should be British, says former 007 Pierce Brosnan. Leak reportedly confirms next Bond will be a man, as actor says it was ‘right decision’ to pass franchise to Amazon

#theguardian.com. × Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunshine, dies aged 84. Family announces on Facebook that the musician died in New York City after a long illness

#theguardian.com. × Sammy J: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet). The comedian and broadcaster thanks the internet for its service, by which he means burping videos, stupid accents and classic fails

#theguardian.com. × Two Point Museum review – curate your own fun in this museum management game. This humorous management game puts you in charge of cultural institutions, creating entertaining displays on everything from natural history to the paranormal

#theguardian.com. × James Bond by Amazon isn’t a bad thing – we could finally get an update to the groundbreaking GoldenEye 007. Some fans are up in arms about the corporate behemoth taking over the franchise. But I’ll wade through any amount of spin-offs for another crack at the best multiplayer game of the 90s

#theguardian.com. × YouTube star MrBeast planning investment round that could value company at $5bn. Funds would be used to create holding company for 26-year-old’s growing empire of video and food businesses

#theguardian.com. × Netflix’s games were once its best-kept secret – where did it all go wrong?. Its investment in indie darlings and big-name talent suggested the streamer wanted big stakes in the gaming industry, but layoffs, lousy ties-in and leadership changes suggest that is changing

#theguardian.com. × ‘Kind of sad’: Timothy Dalton reacts to Amazon’s James Bond deal. Ex-007 praises Broccolis for series while expressing concern for its future after bombshell announcement

#theguardian.com. × Warner Bros cancels Wonder Woman video game and closes three studios. Decision to shutter development studios comes as gamers cut back on new purchases and instead opt for proven titles

#theguardian.com. × Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album. Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

#theguardian.com. × Pay to get playlisted? The accusations against Spotify’s Discovery Mode. Discovery Mode gets artists noticed in exchange for a 30% royalty reduction. A new book suggests that the platform is squeezing musicians and misleading listeners

#theguardian.com. × Looking for something new to spice up your game play? The Tinder of games is here. There are so many games out there, deciding what to tackle next can be overwhelming. Enter Ludocene, a dating-style app that matches you with titles based on your personal tastes

#theguardian.com. × ‘There’s no stress’: gamers go offline in retro console revival. Trend to fix or buy consoles such as Game Gear or Nintendo 64s may reflect a desire for internet-free fun

#theguardian.com. × ‘Everyone knows the Centrelink song’: how we learned to love – and remix – hold music. It’s been called the ‘sound of purgatory’ but Opus 1 has enjoyed a new life in performance art, in a beer commercial and now on TikTok

#theguardian.com. × ‘Less Star Wars – more Blade Runner’: the making of Mass Effect 2’s Bafta-nominated soundtrack. A blind audition, a fruitful collaboration, a tense creative fallout: composer Jack Wall’s journey through the Mass Effect universe was as epic as the player’s

#theguardian.com. × Scarlett Johansson warns of dangers of AI after Kanye West deepfake goes viral. Short film falsely depicts actor and other Jewish celebrities opposing recent antisemitic remarks from pop star

#theguardian.com. × How Harrison Ford brought a strike over video game AI to the world’s attention. Voice actors demanding compensation when AI generates performances from their work have taken industrial action since July

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