Elizabeth Orchard is a Toronto-based content writer, copy editor, and lifelong gamer. She's been playing visual novels and farming sims since she was ten years old, graduating into a hardcore love of ...

From the silent, suspenseful hum of a predator in the shadows to the piercing shriek of an impending apocalypse, a video game's sound design can be its most powerful weapon. We've all been there: a ...

Best video game sound effect? Easy: that noise when Mario starts riding Yoshi. I don’t even know how I would describe that sound effect to someone who had never heard it without just making the noise.