That’s what Johnny Galvatron, the creative director of Beethoven & Dinosaur’s Mixtape, said when I told him I had been listening to his old band’s music. Before making video games, Galvatron was the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s no shortage of video games that want to bring music to the forefront, but few (or none) of them do it quite like The ...

Imagine you're the nephew of a legendary folk music icon, about to perform your first concert. Only thing is, you're really not sure you want to follow the path that seems set out for you. That's the ...

Mixtape is, in many ways, a tribute to classic '90s Americana and an ode to the rebellious youth of the average suburb.

The Artful Escape is an upcoming musical adventure by Beethoven & Dinosaur that takes players on a journey to discover the perfect stage persona for lead character, Francis Vendetti. We recently got ...

Johnny Galvatron, a developer at Beethoven & Dinosaur, describes his former musical outfit The Galvatrons as a band that was “around for a good time, but not a long time.” The more I asked him about ...

It's just past 9am in Melbourne when Johnny Galvatron hops into our Zoom call. He's wearing some pretty slick leopard trim shades, as though the very concept of being sentient at such a time offends ...

Game designer Johnny Galvatron first doodled the monsters of The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti in his student math book, years ago. “I wasn’t a great math student,” he said, delightfully pointing ...

The Artful Escape is coming September 9 for the PC and Xbox. And for Johnny Galvatron, the game’s creator, that date has been a long time coming. The leader of Beethoven & Dinosaur has worked on the ...

Beyond its carefully curated soundtrack, Mixtape has a delightful sense of sincerity going for it.

The Artful Escape is an idealized vision of everything the music industry could be, straight out of the brain of Australian rockstar Johnny Galvatron. In five years of development (at least), The ...

There’s no shortage of video games that want to bring music to the forefront, but few (or none) of them do it quite like The Artful Escape. With a storyline centered around music, gameplay that ...