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 ...

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 ...

Weeks after AI voice startup ElevenLabs launched its Sound Effects text-to-sound AI offering, the company is releasing an open-source tool to showcase its potential. In "about 15 seconds," this ...

What would "Star Wars" and the galaxy far, far away be without lightsabers? And what would lightsabers be without that ...

Sound effects are some of the most underappreciated aspects of cinema. Indeed, the visual nature of film as a medium often ensures that sound is taken for granted, particularly when it comes to ...