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Last year, the music industry celebrated the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, and since its earliest days, the genre quickly dominated charts, becoming popular with music lovers around the world.

Hip Hop Mixtape features 9 hits:

• 2Pac – All Eyez On Me (feat. Big Syke)
• Nicki Minaj – Anaconda
• Snoop Dogg – Gin and Juice
• Eminem – Godzilla (feat. Juice WRLD)
• Outkast – Hey Ya!
• The Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize
• Dr Dre – Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang
• Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message
• Pop Smoke – The Woo (feat. 50 Cent, Roddy Ricch)

For the first time ever, Beat Saber brings uncensored tracks to the game, this means that players can experience all songs in the Hip Hop Mixtape in their original and raw form. We also introduced “Explicit Lyrics Toggle” that empowers players to choose their preferred in-game experience, allowing them to opt in or opt out of songs and music containing explicit lyrics. The toggle is available on all platforms for users over the age of 13.

The Hip Hop Mixtape comes with a brand new environment, inspired by urban spaces heavily painted with graffiti like basketball courts, underpasses, and subway stations, helping to build the vibe alongside the iconic tracks.

As usual, the release is accompanied with the base game + music pack bundle offering, available since the launch date. The bundle costs $38.99 and includes all 9 songs from the mixtape together with the base game Beat Saber.

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Formed in Paris in 1993, the duo quickly rose to prominence, becoming one of the most influential electronic music artists of all time, spanning genres and inspiring the global music industry for many years. The iconic helmets and robot personas they adopted allowed more focus on their music and craft, and became an undeniable part of Daft Punk’s image and brand.

The Daft Punk Music Pack brings 10 of the band’s top hits so we can all celebrate their work through their almost 30-year history. We’re sure that everyone will find their favorites in our packed selection.

The tracklist includes:

• Around The World
• Around The World / Harder Better Faster Stronger (Live 2007)
• Da Funk / Daftendirekt (Live 2007)
• Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
• Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
• Lose Yourself to Dance (feat. Pharrell Williams)
• One More Time
• Technologic
• The Prime Time of Your Life (Live 2007)
• Veridis Quo

What’s even more exciting is that for the very first time ever, we’re launching live music in the game, bringing select high-energy tracks from the legendary live show Alive 2007. If you’re up for a challenge, this music pack features the longest song ever released on Beat Saber – The Prime Time of Your Life (Live 2007) – it’s 10 mins and 23 seconds long!

The music pack is accompanied by a new custom in-game environment in gold/silver color palette,  inspired by the band’s iconic triangle stage look from their live shows. We took it to the next level and created a beautiful space-y environment, surrounding the player with stars (some even orbit around you). The environment brings captivating new tech for lasers like physics and length.

Beat Saber players can get the 10-song Daft Punk Music Pack for 12.99 USD / 12.99 EUR, or if they don’t have Beat Saber just yet, they can jump in with a discounted bundle that includes the Beat Saber base game plus a full music pack for 39.99 USD / 39.99 EUR.

Let’s lose ourselves to dance!

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“I’m beyond excited to once again be partnering with Beat Saber to give fans and players even more music by me, Linkin Park, and Fort Minor, and I’m especially excited to share my new single ‘Already Over’ through the platform. It’s an honor that Linkin Park is the first band to have a second music pack and I hope everyone enjoys playing the new tracks.”

– Mike Shinoda

While developing the beatmaps for this pack, there was so much inspiration to pull from. As fans know, Linkin Park + Mike Shinoda’s music can’t be neatly defined by just one genre, it crosses from nu-metal, to hard rock and hip-hop. Players will have the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the following pulsing tracks:

1. Already Over – Mike Shinoda
2. Crawling – Linkin Park
3. Fighting Myself – Linkin Park
4. In My Head – Mike Shinoda & Kaliee Morgue
5. Lost – Linkin Park
6. More The Victim – Linkin Park
7. Numb/Encore – Jay-Z, Linkin Park
8. Remember the Name (feat. Styles of Beyond) – Fort Minor

There are three different artists in this music pack release, Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda and Fort Minor – and although they have overlapping members and sounds, we wanted players to experience each artist individually through unique beatmaps and light shows. For each song we incorporated their logos, but also drawings on the walls and on the floor that resemble that particular artist to make the experience even more customized.

The new advanced environment is an upgrade from the original music pack release from 2020, and now segments the tunnel using our latest and most advanced lighting system. This is our first environment that allows full control of the elements, each light show also includes some sort of story-telling where we play with the logo movement to accompany the lyrics of the song.

One of the most exciting parts of working on this pack was building a beatmap for an exclusive track for Mike Shinoda. We got to hear the track before anyone else, and wanted to make sure that when players experience it for the first time, it’s as epic as possible – all while slashing to the beat and diving into a captivating light show.

This is Linkin Park’s second music pack with Beat Saber, in 2020 a hugely-popular 11-song pack was released. To celebrate the latest launch, we’ve updated the original music pack with an enhanced environment and levels, including Arc & Chain Notes. Players can easily switch between original and new levels. This is available as a free update for anyone who owns the original music pack, players simply need to update their game.

There are several ways to experience Linkin Park and Mike Shinoda on Beat Saber:

The Linkin Park x Mike Shinoda Music Pack is available for $10.99 USD (or $1.99 USD per song). Fans who missed out on the original Linkin Park Music Pack can snag the Combo Bundle, which features both today’s new pack and the original pack from 2020 (19 songs in total!) for $21.99 USD. And if you’re new to Beat Saber, you can grab both the O.G. Linkin Park Music Pack and the new Linkin Park x Mike Shinoda Music Pack alongside the Beat Saber base game only for $45.99 USD with the Ultimate Bundle.

All now available on PlayStation VR2 and PlayStation VR.

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Enjoy improved performance with the PlayStation VR2 version of Beat Saber, compared to the previous PlayStation VR version. Better yet, if you already own Beat Saber on PS VR, you can upgrade to PS VR2 for free. Any Beat Saber music packs previously purchased on PS VR are also transferable to PS VR2 at no extra cost.

The Queen Music Pack is a carefully curated track list full of great rock anthems from the band that redefined not only the music industry but influenced culture and lifestyle as well. The new custom environment features the silhouettes of the band members and a beautiful light show, unique to each song. All the levels also include our latest game mechanic: Arc & Chain Notes. Music packs are sold as additional content to the game.

Check the Queen Music Pack Hit Tracklist:

• Another One Bites the Dust
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• Don’t Stop Me Now
• I Want It All
• Killer Queen
• One Vision
• Somebody to Love
• Stone Cold Crazy
• We Are The Champions
• We Will Rock You

A lot has changed since 2018, when we first launched Beat Saber on PlayStation VR. We’ve released 5 free Original Soundtracks and 17 music packs featuring artists like Imagine Dragons, Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, Linkin Park, Billie Eilish and more. We launched trending songs like Pop/Stars and fun meme songs like Crab Rave. Beat Saber now has a library with almost 200 songs from chart-topping artists and indie darlings.

Through the years we’ve added multiplayer and avatars to celebrate our community and give players meaningful new ways to play with others and express themselves. We developed new features, game mechanics and game modifiers to make the game an even more engaging and fun experience. And as our team has grown so has our community around the world.

Today, we’re proud to bring Beat Saber to PS VR2 and add music from Queen, one of the most influential bands in the world.

We’d like to thank every single one of our players and community members who have supported us through the years. Thank you for all the support, love, and excitement that you continue to share with us. If you’re joining us as a new player, we’re happy to welcome you to our enthusiastic community. If you’ve slashed away on PS VR before and are now upgrading to PS VR2, we’re excited to see you back!

PlayStation Showcase 2023

PlayStation Studios & third-party publisher announcements

• Final Fantasy XVI launch trailer, Salvation, revealed
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 gameplay revealed
• Introducing Concord—a new PVP multiplayer FPS from Firewalk Studios coming to PS5 and PC
• Bungie unveils Marathon
• Watch the first trailer for Dragon’s Dogma 2, Capcom’s upcoming action-RPG
• Tower of Fantasy, an immersive cyberpunk open-world RPG, hits PS5 and PS4 this summer
• Two new playable characters join the Granblue Fantasy: Relink roster
• First Assassin’s Creed Mirage gameplay revealed, launches October 12
• Alan Wake 2 launches on PS5 October 17
• Foamstars, a fresh new party shooter revealed for PS5 and PS4

PS VR2 announcements

• New gameplay details revealed for Crossfire: Sierra Squad, coming to PS VR2
• Beat Saber launches on PS VR2 today with new Queen Music Pack
• Immersive PS VR2 action-shooter, Synapse, launches on July 4
• First look at Arizona Sunshine 2 revealed, launches on PS VR2 this year
• First PS VR2 footage for Resident Evil 4 VR Mode revealed
• Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 – hiring again on PS VR2

Indies announcements

• Revealing Ultros, a psychedelic sci-fi side-scroller coming to PS5 and PS4 in 2024
• Welcome to Revenant Hill, where your journey to become a witch’s familiar begins
• Towers of Aghasba hits PS5 next year – new gameplay details
• Revealing Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean, coming to PS5 and PS4 next year
• Phantom Blade Zero: a new beginning in a long journey
• Teardown hits PS5 later this year
• Meet the friends and foes of The Plucky Squire’s storybook world
• Introducing Neva, the beautiful new game from the developer of Gris
• The Talos Principle 2 brings mind-bending puzzles and haunting beauty to PS5
• Introducing Sword of the Sea, a new game from Giant Squid

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But that’s not all, with Multiplayer mode, we are also bringing a lobby and arena-like environment which transports you and your challengers into a monumental world of competition. Are you ready for the contest? If not, you can just sit back and watch the competition heat up as an inactive player watching the stadium from above.

Through the development, we kept adding new tweaks and improvements which are launching today as part of this update and will improve your gaming experience, for example:

• Multiplayer Badges: How did everyone do in the match? See who was the most precise slicer or the slowest one. Everyone gets the badge they deserve. 
• Exciting result screen: Enjoy the fireworks while celebrating on the winner’s podium next to each other. 
• Possibility to set custom colors in Multiplayer: Choose your favorite custom colors for cubes and sabers.

As part of this update, we’re also launching a Halloween special – a brand new free song, “Spooky Beat” by Jaroslav Beck set in a Halloween environment. You can also select this track in Multiplayer, challenge your friends and have some spooky fun! 

We’d like to thank the PS VR community who have been patiently supporting us since we started the Multiplayer development. It was a complex feature to develop and we’re so happy we can finally share this with all of you and welcome new players online. See you in Multiplayer! 

*PlayStation Plus is required to be able to play Beat Saber Multiplayer.

Linkin Park is a band very close to our heart, we have been listening to their music since teenage years and our heart rate rises every time we hear their songs. But everything gets even more real when you play it in PS VR. With this music pack, we are bringing 11 of the band’s most popular songs in all difficulties. Yes, that makes it 55 beatmaps in total. Linkin Park Music Pack unites tracks from influential albums Hybrid Theory, Meteora and Minutes to Midnight. As always, you can purchase the whole pack or download individual songs.

Check our selection of the band’s most famous songs:

• Bleed It Out
• Breaking the Habit
• Faint
• Given Up
• In The End
• New Divide
• Numb
• One Step Closer
• Papercut
• Somewhere I Belong
• What I’ve Done

We always want to bring something extra, but this time it is something totally different. With this music pack, we are releasing a brand new game environment – a fully enclosed game area inspired by the tunnel scene you might remember from the ‘One Step Closer’ music video. The environment is also accompanied by a new four-color lighting scheme. To pay our tribute to the iconic Hybrid Theory album, the whole environment is stylized into the album’s colors.

Are you ready to channel your inner music rebel? Head out to PlayStation Store and get yourself the new Linkin Park Music Pack now. See you on the leaderboards.

Bringing new music and new collaborations to Beat Saber is always so much fun and we are proud to welcome another popular video game title on board. There is something, what brings Beat Saber and Rocket League together: both well-known video game hits defining its genres; set in the futuristic dark scene; the competitive character is what makes the game experience even better, and of course: our teams just love pulsing beats boosting the immersion to the next level.

Rocket League has always been our favorite PC game, so the moment we connected with Psyonix and Monstercat teams and discussed potential collaboration, we knew it’s gonna be siiick! And with the support of Monstercat, what could go wrong?

Our goal was to connect these three worlds, who have similar values, philosophy and feel the same about the music and its importance in the game industry. Together, we created a tracklist of songs, which are loved by the players around the world and will be a great fit for Beat Saber. Rocket League x Monstercat Music Pack contains six pumping tracks from Rocket League together with brand new Rocket League-inspired custom environment.

Check out our tracklist:

• Tokyo Machine – ‘PLAY’
• Stephen Walking – ‘Glide’
• Slushii – ‘LUV U NEED U’
• Tokyo Machine – ‘ROCK IT’
• Dion Timmer – ‘Shiawase’
• Slushii & Dion Timmer – ‘Test Me’

Our selection is a combination of the most popular tracks together mixed with fresh new releases. Our players can be excited, because their favorite artist Tokyo Machine is making a return with two insane songs ‘PLAY’ and ‘ROCK IT.’ You won’t stop moving!

Alongside today’s release in Beat Saber, Rocket League is adding two new customization items into the game. Starting today (10:00am PST), Rocket League players will be able to get free customization: Topper and Boost with iconic Beat Saber cubes and original slashing sounds. Just log into Rocket League to get the items and celebrate with us!

The Rocket League x Monstercat Music Pack is available at PlayStation Store right now and it’s an absolute must-have for every true petrolhead. GO TRY IT!

Michaela: Freeek, why do you think experiencing music in VR feels so special?

Freeek: VR as a whole allows us to experience the world in many different ways. Music is not an exception to this. Beat Saber brings a different type of experience to music. One that’s hard to explain without experiencing it yourself. Just like listening to a song you’ve already listened to thousands of times but now on a high-end pair of headphones, Beat Saber gives you a new way to experience music, and it’s unlike anything else.

The simple way to explain it is that you experience the music both physically and visually. A dancing game is physical, and a lighting show is visual, but we’ve never really had it all combined before, especially at home. Things like the environment and lighting play a key part in this feeling, but this new experience is primarily driven by how it makes you move. Every Cube, every direction, every bomb, and every wall is hand-crafted with the intention of letting players experience the music in a whole new way. All of this put together is what we call a ‘Level.’

Michaela: Can you tell us more about who’s creating the levels now and how it was at the beginning?

Freeek: The original 10 levels were all handcrafted by Jan ‘Split’ Ilavsky, with future content being a team effort. This team was hired post-launch and has contained several members, but now sits as Split and GreatYazer, with me being our Full-Time Level Creator.

Michaela: Compared to the early beginnings at Beat Saber, what changed in the way how you – level creators – work together?

Freeek: Our music guy, Jaroslav, gives the team music to work with. We start off by listening to this music (practically on repeat) for a good couple of days, to really learn and understand every aspect of the songs. I remember listening to Crab Rave for a full week before even touching it. I do this so I can determine whether there is anything unique in the song that can be utilized.

With Pop/Stars, for example, I watched the ‘behind the scenes’ dancing videos more than the actual music video itself. Then I determined which parts of the dance would be fun to match the player’s movements to, and went from there.

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After the level and its difficulties are completed, a lot of testing follows. We play the songs on all difficulties over and over again. I test songs at varying speeds to make sure they are flawless, I play on my knees when testing Easy and hold my arms in, trying to imitate what it’s like playing as a kid. On higher difficulties like Expert+, every section is also tested to make sure it’s physically possible to Full Combo, rather than just hypothetically. After the levels are crafted, they are given their own final testing by Jan himself, with any necessary adjustments made.

Michaela: What’s the psychology behind the patterns in the levels?

Freeek: Many ideas we implement into the levels are usually inspired during the period of time when all we do is listen to the songs. We take inspiration from multiple things, including some you might not have even thought of. Lyrics are an obvious one, but others include if the song is currently in a major/minor scale, the current instrument, and any external meanings or traditions about a song, amongst other things. This added ‘layer’ of the song is the type of thing I try to convey when thinking of patterns. It’s not all just about the difficulty. There are several of these extra ‘layers’ in the levels in the game that many people might not realize. Some examples include:

Overkill (Expert)

• During ‘Overkill,’ the main drop has an upwards lifting feeling. A pitch-rising massive synth with a big snare hit between each one. During this section, the player is forced to make increasingly large upward swings with a big downwards hit between each one.
• During ‘Crab Rave,’ the majority of the song is focused on patterns that move from left to right, matching the sway of the Crabs’ dance in the music video.
• During ‘Whatever It Takes,’ there are a few sections in the verse with special cues. “Run me like a racehorse” feels like using the reins when riding a horse. “Break me down and build me up” has the player slicing blocks in descending then ascending order.
• During ‘Unlimited Power,’ the lyrics that say ‘From red to blue, from blue to red, and ducking the red from overhead” have the player performing the exact moves to these lyrics.

Crab Rave (Expert+)

These are just a few examples of the attention we put into making levels. Even the difference between the types of instruments can be used while mapping: if a piano is being matched, the pattern will be more stylized towards a simple flow, and the position of the blocks may match the pitch of a piano roll. If it’s a drum, the angles will be more up/down focused. Bass guitar will have notes more in the bottom row, whereas vocals will be higher up in the air. A lot of the time, these habits are mixed with multiple instruments.

Michaela: Lighting is a super important aspect of every level. It seems quite complex to put together such a light show — how do you approach lighting while mapping new levels?

Freeek: Yes, lighting has a lot of time put into it. In most cases, there are even more lighting triggers than blocks! Even in Expert+! For example, ‘Digital’ has 951 blocks to hit in Expert+, yet it has over 3000 lighting events!

Lighting events in ‘Overkill’

A lot of thought processes that are applied when creating the blocks for the levels are also used in lighting. In ‘Thunder’ we primarily use blue (for obvious reasons) but we’ve even tried to re-create specific lighting events to imitate a thunderstorm. In ‘Radioactive’ the blue and red lights never mix until the lyrics sing the song’s title. In ‘Crab Rave,’ we changed the color of the entire environment to match the tropical look of the music video, and we changed the Monstercat logo to orange… because of crabs haha.

A lot of lights are also hand-synced with lyrics. Next time you play Pop/Stars, pop on no-fail and try to pay attention to the large ‘X’ lights. Even for an upcoming song we are releasing, I studied the way lights look on a carousel (especially when powering up/down) to then imitate that in the level. For every song, we even have unique lighting for Expert+, specifically so that more intense/strobe based lighting doesn’t outweigh the lower intensity of lower difficulties. We also make sure that some of the more intense lights match the frequency/Hz of different HMDs so that they’re actually visible!

Michaela: With the current selection of the music in the game, which artists or bands you would personally like to see in Beat Saber the future?

Freeek: If there’s one thing I have learned about Beat Saber, it’s that any genre works. Songs I may dislike listening to can be very enjoyable when done right in the game. But if I had to pick out some artists, I’d love to see Gorillaz, Linkin Park, Daft Punk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arctic Monkeys, Deadmau5, Flume, Black Keys, Skrillex, Will Sparks, Caravan Palace, Metallica, AC/DC, Guns n’ Roses, Kygo, Avicii, Nero, Pantera, Pendulum… hell, even some Outkast, Eminem, Hilltop Hoods or Kanye West wouldn’t be too shabby. Oh, and of course, more Jaroslav Beck!

There may be quite a few there, but honestly, they would all work. Even an official Level Creator can dream… right?

Michaela: Good selection! Let’s see who’s coming next! Our goal for 2019 is to bring as many genres as possible to Beat Saber so everyone can find the music they enjoy the most.

In the meantime, I would like to invite all PS VR players to try our fresh new Imagine Dragons Music Pack – a selection of the band’s 10 biggest hits. The Imagine Dragons Music Pack is now available at PlayStation Store.

There is no need to introduce Imagine Dragons, the band loved by millions of people worldwide and regularly peaking the global music charts with their latest singles. Since the release of Beat Saber, we knew deep in our heart that we need to bring this iconic band into Beat Saber and let your senses experience something totally different. We set this goal and our team’s efforts leaned into it since then. And here we go!

Imagine Dragons Music Pack is full of hits:

• Bad Liar
• Believer
• Digital
• It’s Time
• Machine
• Natural
• Radioactive
• Thunder
• Warriors
• Whatever It Takes

To maximize your music immersion, we are also adding a brand-new environment created exclusively for this Music Pack. When you compare the cover image and our new environment, it’s probably pretty obvious what was the inspiration, right? Get ready to step into the mysterious industrial world of Imagine Dragons.

The songs are available in all difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, Hard, Expert, and Expert+) so everyone among your friends and family can enjoy the game… it’s just so natural to get into the game and start slashing the beats. With the pulsing music of Imagine Dragons and our mesmerizing environment, you won’t want to leave.

Imagine Dragons Music Pack is coming to Beat Saber as our second pack and broadens our music selection. We plan to continue by bringing more variety to the game and open Beat Saber to more music genres so everyone finds the music they love and enjoy the most. Our music road map for 2019 is full of famous big-name artists but also emerging indie musicians, all across the music spectrum. 2019 is gonna be huge in Beat Saber!