According to the Last.fm website, the new Xbox dashboard update will feature “Curated tag stations filled with game-inspired content.” In English, this amounts to a separate category in your Last.fm options to access actual game music and/or game-inspired music.
Unfortunately, none of the included updates (Facebook, Twitter, or Last.fm) can be accessed while playing a game. But, we applaud Last.fm’s efforts to promote game music and are interested to see how it works out.
Our friends over at Destructoid have made an excellent video preview where you can see all the aforementioned features.
Are you looking forward to the update or do you think it’ll be just a bunch of features better off accessed through your computer/phone?
Tags: Last.fm, Microsoft, News, Xbox 360
Remember though, “gamer inspired” does NOT equal music that’s IN or FROM games, and I highly doubt this will be a channel of actual game music. It’ll just be standard radio stuff that people in the 20s demographic are already listening to.
I dunno, if you’re able to play tag radio then you should be able to select ‘video game music’ as the tag you play from, and I know from experience that the vgm tag radio actually plays a lot of actual original video game music (like Shadow of the Colossus, Wind Waker, etc.). There is a lot of OCRemix stuff in there, though.
We got into the preview and indeed, it plays some decent stuff from Jesper Kyd, Koji Kondo and the like but there is a fair bit of “pop music that was licensed for a game” and loads of OverClocked remixes in most of the “gamer” stations as well. There’s an 8-bit station too but in my quick perusal it was mostly chiptune groups I personally hadn’t heard of. Not bad, just not actual 8-bit video game music.