| Logan Cunningham hosts game awards show at NYULogan Cunningham, the voice of Rucks in Bastion, will host the 1st Annual New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards in conjunction with New York University’s Game Center. The show will take place on February 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cantor Film Center. Adding to the excitement, Supergiant Games composer Darren Korb and vocalist Ashley Barret will perform music from the game during the event. Bastion enthusiasts located in the New York area can RSVP for a free ticket at the official website. |
| 8 Bit Weapon releases Bits with Byte albumSeth and Michelle of 8 Bit Weapon have released a new album, available to stream in full and purchase on Bandcamp. The 17-track collection recorded in Los Angeles capitalizes on the music group's intimate familiarity with the sound styles of '70s and '80s game hardware. Bits with Byte is also available through iTunes. |
| IMERUAT single now on BandcampFinal Fantasy XIII composer Masashi Hamauzu and vocalist Mina have released their single IMERUAT on Bandcamp. The three track album, which contains original music tracks "Imeruat," "Cirotto," and "Haru no Kasumi," is available to stream in full online and purchase in your file format of choice. The full album is due out later this year. |
| Nintendo rock group Revengineers release self-titled EPThe Nintendo Entertainment System rock group Revengineers, based in Rochester, New York, have released a self-titled EP through Bandcamp. The five-track album can be streamed in full online, purchased digitally in your downloadable file format of choice or sent away for on compact disc. Purchases come with LSDJ .sav files and NES Famitracker files. Music is recorded, mixed and mastered by Stephen Roessner. |
| Yuzo Koshiro scores Time and Eternity for PS3Namco Bandai Games has announced that they will be publishing a PlayStation 3 exclusive role-playing game, whose title translates to "Time and Eternity." The title is being developed by Imageepoch, with realtime cutscenes befitting from design by anime studio Satellite. Yuzo Koshiro, whose previous game score was for the PlayStation Portable title 7th Dragon 2020, will provide original music. |
| Street Fighter X Tekken intro movieCapcom has posted the opening movie for Street Fighter X Tekken, which is being developed for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita for release in Japan this March. The video depicts Tekken's Xiaou and Jin as protagonists taking on Street Fighter antagonists M. Bison and Juri. Music for the game is by Marvel vs Capcom 3 composer Hideyuki Fukasawa. |
| Super Mario Bros. Crossover receives SNES / Game Boy treatmentExploding Rabbit is planning an update for Super Mario Bros. Crossover that will allow the old school platforming mashup to be displayed in Super Nintendo and Game Boy graphics. Music from both console eras will be available for each of the playable characters, which will now include a high-jumping Luigi and Bass from Mega Man 7. The update is planned for release during the first quarter of 2012. |
| Kumi Tanioka scores Hamelin interactive storybookFinal Fantasy Crystal Chronicles composer Kumi Tanioka has written the music for the latest interactive iOS storybook by DICO, following her scores for Snow White, The Ugly Duckling, and Hansel and Gretel. Hamelin, a narrated retelling of the story of the Pied Piper, supports eight languages, including English and Japanese, and is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices. |
| 15th AIAS Awards announce music nominationsThe Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition for the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. They are L.A. Noire, LittleBigPlanet 2, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, InFamous 2 and Portal 2. The awards will take place February 9 at the D.I.C.E. Summit. |
| This Place is Haunted (remastered) on BandcampGame cover band This Place is Haunted has released a remastered edition of their 2009 self-titled album on Bandcamp, including extra bonus tracks. Featured are rock arrangements of music found in the Castlevania and Ecco The Dolphin series, X-Men for Sega Genesis. Double Dragon, Golden Axe II, Super Mario Bros 2 and Pac-Man. (Adding to the old school feel is a track remixing HBO's epic feature presentation theme song.) Mixing, mastering and design are by Michael Zucker. |
| Nerdapalooza 2010 Live Recordings now on BandcampThe album Nerdapalooza 2010 Live Recordings is now available to stream in full and purchase in your file format of choice from Bandcamp. The nerdcore artists represented on the collection recorded at the Orlando, Florida event include MC Frontalot, Random aka Mega Ran, Shael Riley, Zombies! Organize!!, The Adventures of Duane & BrandO and The Megas, among numerous others. |
| BIG BROTHER posts alternate Hydorah Path of Scylla remixKyoto musicians DJ Master Kohta and BIG BROTHER have posted an alternate remix of "Path of Scylla" from Locomalito's independently developed shooter Hydorah. The arrangement, based on the song by Spanish game composer Gryzor87, features Japanese language vocals by Asaka Tomoko, based on the game's storyline. Played last night at Cafe la Siesta, the track is now free to download from SoundCloud. |
| Blip Tokyo Q&A: Nullsleep interviews Manabu NamikiAs Blip Festival Australia gears up for its debut next month, four artists meet to discuss performing chip music in the live environment. Nullsleep has contributed music to independent game titles like PongVaders for iOS. Here, he talks game audio with Deathsmiles series composer Manabu Namiki, Hally of influential netlabel VORC and Chibi-Tech of Chiptuned Rockman. |
| 1H1D!!! Vol. 23 chiptune party photo setLast night witnessed the 1H1D!!! Vol. 23 chiptune party, taking place at game culture hang-out spot Cafe la Siesta in Kyoto, Japan. 90 photographs from the event are now available to view on Google Plus. Participants included DJ Master Kohta, Nordloef, USK of Portalenz, KAZ a.k.a.HIGE, Big Brother, NNNNNNNNNN and BEN (LORB). Photos are by Jeriaska. |
| Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection soundtrack on iTunesNamco Bandai Games' netlabel Namco Sounds has posted the soundtrack album for Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection to iTunes. Samples of all 35 tracks from the arcade and PlayStation Portable fighting game are available online, composed by Tetsuya Uchida, Akitaka Tohyama, Yu Miyake, Keiichi Okabe, Hiroshi Okubo and other artists. |
| Jessica Curry scores Dear EstherJessica Curry has composed original music for first-person ghost story Dear Esther, which has been nominated for an Excellence in Audio Award in the 2012 Independent Games Festival. Two years in the making, the commercial remake of the PC mod features environments rendered in the Portal 2 engine, a re-orchestrated soundtrack and new scripted voice-overs. |
| IGF announces 2012 Excellence in Audio finalistsThe organizers of the 2012 Independent Games Festival taking place at the Game Developers Conference have announces the finalists for the Excellence in Audio award. They are Botanicula (Amanita Design), Dear Esther (thechineseroom), Pugs Luv Beats (Lucky Frame), To The Moon (Freebird Games) and Waking Mars (Tiger Style). Awards will be announced at the Moscone Center on Wednesday, March 7. |
| C64anabalt cartridge available for purchaseOwners of Commodore 64 consoles can now send away for the cartridge port of Adam Atomic's Canabalt. The demake has been overseen and fully endorsed by the Canabalt dev team. The conversion was developed by Paul Koller and features the original score by Super Meat Boy's Danny Baranowsky, arranged by Mikkel Hastrup, in addition to music by Andreas Slotte featured in the PC game ThrustBurst. |
| Listen to week one of Weeklybeats 2012 music projectWeeklybeats is a 52 week long music project in which artists compose and publicly release one song a week for the entire year. Chip musicians chipping in on week one of the project include little-scale, Lazerbeat, Trash80, Starpause, Minikomi, Saskrotch, Pongball, infradead and Dot.AY. Stream or download their tunes and comment on the Weeklybeats website. |
| Hideyuki Fukasawa AINOTE live videoHideyuki Fukasawa has uploaded a new music video featuring footage of his live performance at AINOTE in Tokyo on November 22. The composer of Super Street Fighter IV and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 performed as Eicheph for the fourth installment of the Denshi Kaimen modular synth party. His next game score will be for Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken. |
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