To virtually all Americans, the words "bossa nova" are synonymous with Brazilian jazz. More specifically, they immediately trigger memories of bossa nova's greatest American hit, "The Girl From ...

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Bossa Games, the developer of Surgeon Simulator, I am Bread, and I am Fish, is laying off an undisclosed number of employees ...

Brazil’s best-known form of music is the samba, the drum-heavy, rhythmically intricate and danceable genre that powers Carnival. But in 1955, when João Gilberto locked himself in the bathroom of his ...

Worlds Adrift was a massive undertaking for a studio like Bossa. The sky pirate MMO featured a persistent world that retained every shipwreck, was populated by AI creatures that continued to hunt and ...

Bossa nova is not just elevator music or the rhythm button on a home organ. It's poetic, political – and a high-water mark in Brazilian culture The Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso recalls a concert at ...

A decade or more younger than the composer / musicians in the first wave of bossa nova artists, Antonio Adolfo began recording under his own name towards the end of the 1960s. Better known as a ...

In Lost Skies, players team up to explore a vast world made up of floating islands. The skies are full of opportunities to build customized sky-ships, brave ferocious storms, battle monsters, and ...

If you played any of Bossa Games' weird and wonderful games - the likes of I Am Bread and its spiritual successor I Am Fish, and the brilliant Surgeon Simulator series - you've probably thought to ...

The summer of 1958 was the season of bossa nova. Fifty years ago, a movement of melody, harmony, lyrics, and rhythm sent a fresh wave of sound throughout Brazil. In the years to follow, a small group ...

In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...