| 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. |
| Baiyon to introduce Global Game Jam 2012Kyoto DJ and visual artist Baiyon of PixelJunk 4am will introduce Global Game Jam 2012, taking place January 27 to 29, 2012. The musician and visual artist will be joined by game researcher Gonzalo Frasca, lecturer Brenda Garno, id Software co-founder John Romero and SimCity developer Will Wright in kicking off the jam, which anticipates the participation of game creators in 44 countries. |
| USK and nordloef play Kyoto's Cafe la Siesta this SaturdayChip musicians USK and nordloef will play Kyoto's game culture spot Cafe la Siesta this Saturday, January 14. It will mark the 23rd installment of the 1H1D chiptune party organized by the venue. Other artists scheduled to perform are BEN, dj.p.k.g., KAZ a.k.a.HIGE and DJ MasterKOHTA. The 8-bit live event begins at 7:00 pm. |
| 4mat uploads "Strobe Lights" to SoundCloudChip music artist and game composer Matt Simmonds has uploaded a track from his forthcoming album "Origins" to his new 4mat SoundCloud account. "Strobe Lights" features vocals by self-described computer science geek George Ashdown, and is available to stream and download for free online. The artist's three preceding albums can be purchased at 4mat.bandcamp.com for "name your price." |
| Imeruat music videoFinal Fantasy XIII series musicians Masashi Hamauzu and vocalist Mina have uploaded a music video for their song "Imeruat." The five-minute YouTube video is composed of numerous photographs taken on the artists' overseas tour in 2011, presented together with the title song on the Imeruat single, which is currently available for purchase on iTunes. |
| Mister Beep shares ZX Spectrum anniversary albumChip music netlabel Kittenrock presents Mister Beep’s 4th album, created in celebration of the ZX Spectrum 48K’s 30th anniversary. Z80 is intended to showcase the "grainy textures and old school feelings" of the retro gaming platform, while including guest tracks by Factor6 and irrlicht project. The album is free to download and stream online from the Kittenrock website. |
| Fami-Mode 2011 digest videoKichijouji game culture shop METEOR has posted an eleven-minute digest video of footage from last year's Fami-Mode 8-bit culture festival. The movie contains clips of stage performances by Sexy-Synthesizer, Bourbon Kobayashi, Kplecraft, Consumers, Craftwife+Kaseo+, smallest and Omodaka. Fami-Mode 2012 will take place the night of January 28 at Star Pine's Cafe. |
| In Depth: Comic Market 81Comic Market 81 took place last week at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center in Japan. Game arrange albums debuting at the event include Diverse System's Dear Mr. Minecraft and Ridge Racer Respect Recreation, Woodsoft's Castlevania: Chronicles of the Past and Memories of Game Music by EtlanZ. In this article, attendees discuss their favorite aspects of the twice-a-year gathering. |
| Studio Pixel releases Azarashi for iOSCave Story creator Daisuke Amaya of Studio Pixel has released an enhanced iOS edition of his game Azarashi for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, available through the Apple App Store. Azarashi challenges you to a game of darts where the very lives of adorable seals are at stake. The application supports English, Japanese, German and Spanish. Music is by Daisuke Amaya. |
| Scarygirl console trailer features music by Luke JureviciusSquare Enix will publish the console download edition of Scarygirl, previously a web browser game and line of plush toys designed by Nathan Jurevicius. The enhanced edition of the spooky platformer, which has been coded by TikGames, is due out on XBLA on January 18 and PSN on the 24th, featuring music by animator and series composer Luke Jurevicius. |
| Phantom Breaker confirmed for English language regionsPublisher 7sixty will be releasing Japanese fighting game Phantom Breaker for the Xbox 360 in English language regions. The launch trailer and facebook page reveal that a special edition will be released on January 31, including a calendar, among other extras. Music for the game, developed by 5pb, is by Takeshi Abo of Steins;Gate, with an ending theme by Azusa Chiba of Basiscape. |
| Game Developers Choice Best Audio nominees announcedThe 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards' nominees for Best Audio have been announced. They are Bastion by Supergiant Games, LittleBigPlanet 2 by Media Molecule, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by Bethesda, Dead Space 2 by Visceral Games and Portal 2 by Valve. The winner will be announced at the Game Developers Conference this March. |
| Jonathan Baken shares Treasure Map albumJonathan Baken of chip music group George and Jonathan has released a new album called Treasure Map, available from Bandcamp for "name your price." The seven-track collection was made using LSDJ during the summer of 2010 and includes three bonus tunes not visible on Bandcamp. |
| Darren Korb plays Bastion's "Build That Wall" liveSupergiant Games has uploaded a new video of two pieces performed by the makers of Bastion from the soundtrack album. The movie marks the first time audio director and composer Darren Korb and vocalist Ashley Barrett have been filmed playing music from the game. "Build That Wall" and "Setting Sail, Coming Home" appear in the five-minute movie uploaded to YouTube from Supergiant headquarters in Northern California. |
| Game designer Wollay scores Cube WorldGame designer Wollay is providing original music for Cube World (tentative title), a voxel-based open world role-playing game, created using C++, DirectX and custom voxel software, in development since June of last year. The solo designer just uploaded a gameplay video demonstrating the quest system, where a village's non-playable character will task you with completing an errand in return for experience points. Additional quests are planned that will earn you xovel weapons and other loot. |
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