December 2009
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UPDATED / Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka...
*UPDATE: Yamaoka confirms
Aeropause is reporting that Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka is leaving Konami, sourcing an unnamed contact from Konami Japan. Yamaoka has worked for Konami as a sound designer for the past 16 years, known best for the haunting melodies and thick industrial ambience that give the Silent Hill series its unique audible character.
Anyone who’s played a Silent Hill game...
November 2009
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Animal Style teases new NES cartridge album... →
Animal Style gives us a taste of his new album ‘Teletime,’ which will be available soon in limited quantities through his website. Naturally, the album is being released in the finest of all audio formats, the NES cartridge, guaranteeing an optimal listening experience for all. ‘Teletime’ is currently on display at the Klein Art Gallery in Philadelphia, PA and can be...
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Square Enix arrange album ‘Love SQ’ shows up early...
For a long time, Square Enix’s fan-pleasing music label has catered almost exclusively to Japanese and European audiences. This was all fine and good if you lived in those territories, but left North American videogame music aficionados to suffer hefty import taxes and eBay bidding wars in order to acquire Square’s precious catalog of original music soundtracks. But with their newest...
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Post your favorite chiptune on Destructoid and win...
It looks like my inside sources were correct — My journalistic allies from Destructoid have acquired two 3-day passes to Blip Festival 2009, and they are giving them away to one lucky individual who can eloquently and passionately describe their favorite chipmusic song. Just find a link to your #1 chip jam and post it in the comments here, along with a short explanation. Here’s...
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Get to know your Blip Fest '09 performers, hear...
New York’s Blip Festival is bringing us one heck of a lineup this year. But if you’re new to 8-bit music (or even if you aren’t), you might be feeling a bit lost at this point. Just who are these talented weirdos making all this rad music and visual art with Game Boys and Nintendos and Commodores? Well, Blip Festival’s official Blip Blog (brought to you by TCTD) gives you...
Zen Albatross has reached Level 24: Gained 600...
Okay, so I still don’t have cool fire magicks, but I did turn 24 years old today. That’s kind of neat, I guess. Level 23 was pretty rough. I had random encounters with Game Boy-stealing street thugs, evil Scottish interior designers, crooked police officers and extreme poverty. But I also did some cool stuff too: I got a new apartment in Brooklyn, started a blog, wrote some music...
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MAGFest 8 announces more bands, more guests, more...
I know, I know… I’ve said before that I’m vehemently opposed to the common practice of using adjectives as nouns, especially in the title of a blog post. But there’s only one videogaming event out there that causes me to neglect my own journalistic standards, and that’s Washington D.C.’s Music and Gaming Festival.
Since we last spoke on the matter, two more...
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8STATIC 11.14.09 | Trash80 • glomag • Animal Style...
Philadelphia’s premiere chipmusic showcase 8static returns to Studio 34 tomorrow night with one heck of a lineup:
From New York City, the bardic melodies of glomag will rock your soul and warm your heart. And they’ll probably make you want to dance too.
Philly’s own Animal Style returns to the stage once more. Armed with a guitar, keyboards and a hacked Sega Genesis, Animal...
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Over The Edge: Indie devs protest App Store... →
Things are getting dicey in the indie games community this week. Spearheaded by fans and developers from TIGsource, the close-knit community has undertaken a parodic protest in opposition to Edge Games president Tim Langdell’s continued attempts to have games containing the word ‘edge’ taken down from Apple’s iPhone App Store. But instead of the usual online petitions and...
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WatchLow-bit VJ Paris Treantafeles explains the art of live visual synthesis at the Data Beez chipmusic event in Los Angeles.
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Hidden Gems: The Best Undiscovered Game Boy/GBC...
Every videogame console has them: Under-appreciated, neglected games that otherwise would have fallen into the dark abyss of obscurity were it not for a small group of dedicated (and sometimes borderline-fanatical) fans. With this firmly in mind, I’ve teamed up with Racketboy to bring you a concise list of overlooked titles for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. Read below for a few synopses...
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Indie Quickie: 'How Many Stars' was made in a day
How Many Stars is a game made by intrepid programmer Steve Jenkins (High Strangeness, STFUAJPGM) in 24 hours. The music is by Rich Vreeland (aka Disasterpeace), and was written within the same timeframe.
Download: How Many Stars
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My earliest Game Boy memory, circa 1993
Summertime, during a late night bus ride at sleepaway camp in mid-July. The game was Kirby’s Dreamland. I had borrowed my bunkmate’s Game Boy light attachment so that I could continue playing deep into the night. It must’ve been nearly 4 AM. After hours of toil, the naughty King De De De fell from his decrepit throne of lies and landed at my feet. It was the first game I had...
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Nintendo Game Boy inducted into National Toy Hall... →
In case you haven’t noticed by now, people really love the Game Boy. Back in April, I wrote an article about the Game Boy and its astounding impact on culture in celebration of the system’s 20th birthday. Now I’m proud to report that Nintendo’s incomparable 8-bit handheld has been inducted into the Museum of Play’s National Toy Hall of Fame. The trusty old grey...
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Quite possibly the best Amazon customer review... →
“i got game n kil rat mutate over n over untl bad dude kil me ouch. i like game lot n rats r cool n stuff wen thety mutate n try to kill me daed ouch! It ok to play n shoot bad dude n i get game n tell u to get game to kil rat an bad dudes in ur guns u kill rat. Ok great good but no ok good great just ok good great good. Get.”
And just like that, any remaining doubt you once had...
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