the votes have been tallied and the results are in. congrats to Triantafyllia (@akariimia) for winning the Fantasy World Art Contest!. thank you to everyone who participated!. full results:

the osu!catch finals are upon us, and with it comes a new osu! original by Ruby My Dear: Petit Poney. matches with this map will be streamed here next week!.

aside from an endless supply of circles, osu! players crave only one thing: cool music. that's why we brought *Dispel* into our featured artists!. read:

. and second, another track by Marmalade Butcher: "SUTEGORO"

on top of a new Featured Artist, we also revealed *two more* awesome tracks for this year's osu!catch World Cup!. first up: A-One's newest Touhou arrangement "Side by Side".(extra thanks to @Peargor for the background drawing!)

it's finally happening. welcome Ice to our Featured Artist catalogue with their new track for the osu!catch World Cup: Nostalgia Sonatina Op.3!. read:

130+ artists around our osu! world have just finished their Fantasy World Art Contest creations. your mission: explore the newly painted worlds with the osu! cast and vote on the best ones!. vote here:

the NAT wants YOU 🫵 to express your thoughts about the current state of the Ranked section!. if this interests you, check out this quick survey present here:

you'll want to be here for next week's matches:

if you didn't see the mappool showcase earlier today, you missed out on two new tracks (and maps) that were created for this year's osu!catch World Cup!. Symholic feat.Rina Komatsu - Veil of Ash (the Quarterfinals tiebreaker!).Vorso - Heliosphere

osu! is a rhythm game. rhythm games need awesome music. and that's why @shirobon is finally part of our Featured Artist library! read all about it:

the Round of 16 of the osu!catch World Cup 2025 continues today with Türkiye vs Spain, followed by Indonesia vs Poland! .now live!

if you have too much obscure osu! knowledge, like teaming up with friends and scavenging osu!'s vast map library to solve challenges. then you must have oddly specific standards. but worry not, there's a community event just for that!.

from the fervent competition of 79 entries in this year's premiere novice mapping competition, the judgement has been cast!. it's time to congratulate PEALEERD_TAK for winning the Newspaper Cup 2025!. full results:

watch this map played by the highest caliber fruit catchers next weekend:

the osu!catch World Cup is in full swing, which means you're about to witness weekly songs and maps made specifically for the tournament!. our first original was announced only yesterday: Planetary Exclusion Zone by XenjeS (who's also an osu! player!)

weekends on osu! are reserved for two things: world cups and new featured artists. one of those is streamed on twitch, while the other is right here. welcome *Simon Safhalter* to our music library!. read:

tournament tiebreaker tracks aren't easy to produce, but *sugosugiii* made a bunch of them since joining our featured artist library last year!. 15 new tracks (including those tiebreaker tunes) are now part of osu!:

the osu! world has collided with another. now pippi and co. have found themselves transported into unfamiliar territory!. if you have a pen and paper/tablet, this is where you join the Fantasy World Art Contest to tell us of their adventures .

wake up, a new osu!lazer release just dropped with song select v2 in preview (and much more)!.