You’ll never guess the Grammys video game winner that beat Star Wars and Spider-Man

An important but highly obscure role-playing remake has managed to bushed the likes of God Of War and Spider-Man 2 astatine this year’s Grammys.

While video crippled euphony had received nods astatine the Grammy Awards before, it was lone successful 2023 erstwhile a dedicated video crippled class was introduced, to decently admit the contributions of gaming composers.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla composer Stephanie Economou took location the archetypal triumph acknowledgment to the Dawn Of Ragnarök expansion, with the 2024 grant going to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor composers Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab.

But if you suspected the victor was decided connected marque designation implicit the existent music, this twelvemonth proves that mentation wrong, since contempt respective large sanction nominees, the grant went to the astir obscure crippled connected the list.

The 2025 Grammys took spot past night, with the nominees for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media including:

• Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora
• God Of War Ragnarök: Valhalla
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• Star Wars Outlaws

That’s 2 games each from Sony and Ubisoft, and yet they mislaid to the 5th crippled connected the list: the 2024 remake of Wizardry: Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord by Digital Eclipse.

The archetypal Wizardy released successful 1981 and portion galore younger gamers person apt ne'er heard of it, this is the root constituent of each modern role-playing video games, and its influences tin beryllium felt crossed the full genre – successful some the West and Japan.

The remake received an wholly caller soundtrack courtesy of Winifred Phillips, a seasoned of the manufacture whose enactment includes the archetypal 2005 God Of War and the LittleBigPlanet games.

This isn’t the lone grant the Wizardy remake’s soundtrack has won, but it’s surely the astir prestigious. The soundtrack is freely disposable connected Spotify, Bandcamp, and YouTube if you fancy giving it a listen.

If you’re wondering wherefore the nominations database includes games from 2023, that’s due to the fact that the Grammys lone took into information releases from September 16, 2023 to August 30, 2024.

This explains wherefore the nominees are precise antithetic compared to the games listed for champion soundtrack astatine The Game Awards 2024 this past December. As a reminder, those games were:

• Astro Bot
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Silent Hill 2
• Stellar Blade

Of those five, lone Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (which won) and Stellar Blade launched wrong the eligibility period, but based connected the nominees for 2023 and 2024, the Grammys don’t look funny successful games made extracurricular the West.

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