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IWADON: Road to the Future - Tatsuhico Mix - from Omega Five
The fifth installment in the IWADON video series is a remix of Road to the Future from Xbox Live Arcade shooter Omega Five. Tatsuhico of Sapporo, Hokkaido is the first musician apart from the composer to reinterpret the song, as Iwatsuki arranged the track for the remix portion of Omega Five Soundtracks, published by the Super Sweep game records company. The video features both music and photographs by Tatsuhico.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-20  0 comments   
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IWADON: No Weather Who You Are (Ninja Warriors Boss Battle 6)
The fourth music video in the IWADON series is a reinterpretation of the Boss Battle 6 theme from Ninja Warrirors. Titled "No Weather Who You Are," it features arrangement and photographs by Alexander Piterskiy of Saint Petersburg, Russia. IWADON is a compilation of free videogame music covers in tribute to composer Hiroyuki Iwatsuki.
3 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-20  0 comments   
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Sheet music for Report from the 1920s
Kento Watanabe's contribution to the Hiroyuki Iwatsuki tribute album has more original content than most of the other arrangements. For those who might want to give it a go on the piano, Kento has uploaded the sheet music as a video on YouTube.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-20  0 comments   
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Mega Ran @ SXSW 2010 - first day video
Arizona-based rapper Random, aka Mega Ran, just returned from the South by Southwest Festival and has begun uploading videos recounting his experience. In the opening installment Random, Mr. Miranda and K-Murdock explore Austin on the first day of SXSW 2010. Random pays a visit to nerdcore luminary MC Frontalot, delivers a panel and takes a look at his featured article in the April issue of Nintendo Power.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-20  0 comments   
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GDC 2010 Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP demo
Footage of the latest build of Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP shown at the Game Developers Conference has been posted to vimeo. The iPhone/ iPod Touch game is by developer Capybara Games (Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes), singer-songwriter Jim Guthrie, and pixelartist/animator Craig "Superbrothers" Adams (Alpinist).
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-20  0 comments   
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Crafty Gamer: Adapting Air Man's theme for piano
This week The[Crafty]Gamer features New York City pianist and composer, Rob Kovacs, whose video of a piano arrangement of Mega Man's Air Man theme has been making the rounds on the gaming blogs.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-20  0 comments   
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IWADON: Jetmen Take Flight (Choujin Sentai Jetman Stage 1)
The third promotional video in the IWADON series features a live music rendition of the Stage 1 theme from 8-bit Nintendo game Choujin Sentai Jetman, arranged by Ian Luckey. IWADON is a compilation of free videogame music covers in tribute to composer Hiroyuki Iwatsuki.
3 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-19  0 comments   
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Final Fight Double Impact arrives April 14
JC Fletcher at Joystiq has word that Capcom's remake of the classic 3D brawler Final Fight, alongside Magic Sword, will be available for purchase on XBLA and PSN April 14. The remixed soundtrack is being handled by the sound designers behind Bionic Commando Rearmed.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-19  0 comments   
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IWADON: Spanky's Quest by Crashfaster
TCTD has posted the first promotional trailer for Game Music 4 All's Hiroyuki Iwatsuki tribute album that features a chiptune artist. 8bitsf's Crashfaster performs his cover of the Boss Battle theme from 1991 Natsume Game Boy title Spanky's Quest, set to footage taken at Kokoromi's GAMMA IV party at GDC. A list of IWADON's six participating chip musicians is included at the bottom of the post.
4 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-18  0 comments   
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Penny Arcade: The Series - New Hire, Part 2
In the latest emotionally charged episode of 2 Player Productions' Penny Arcade documentary series, the company has to decide on their latest hire (an associate designer) among three highly qualified candidates. Chip music soundtrack is by Alex Mauer and Seed A.I.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-20  0 comments   
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OverClocked ReMix releases Donkey Kong Country 2: Serious Monkey Business
OverClocked ReMix has released a Donkey Kong Country 2 remix album directed by Jeremy Waters and Wesley Cho. The album includes more than 30 tracks and over two hours of music. The credits theme is arranged and performed by Rare alumni David Wise, Grant Kirkhope and Robin Beanland.
7 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-16  0 comments   
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Bitch Magazine on chiptune documentary Reformat the Planet
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture is a quarterly, nonprofit magazine about pop culture, feminism, and media criticism. They've just printed a write-up on female chiptune artists featured in 2 Player Productions' Reformat the Planet documentary, namely YMCK (Japan), Bubblyfish (New York) and Coova (Tokyo), which was screened at SXSW this year.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-19  0 comments   
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Game Music 4 All announces IWADON: Hiroyuki Iwatsuki Tribute Album, due out March 24
Game Music 4 All has announced that the next installment in their series of game cover albums is IWADON: Hiroyuki Iwatsuki Tribute Album. A partnership with Nobuooo.com, an incredibly diverse collection of musicians has been gathered from all over the world to pay tribute to a composer who has been creating amazing game soundtracks for 20 years. All music will be streaming on the official site beginning March 24, followed by a PAX East presentation on March 26.
4 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-17  0 comments   
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Baiyon collaborating on PS3 music visualizer
At the end of Jaymin Kessler's GDC presentation on the physics effects of PixelJunk Shooter, it was announced on the bottom corner of a slide that PixelUunk Eden composer Baiyon would be collaborating with Q-Games on a new music visualizer for the Playstation 3.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-18  0 comments   
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Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker - Second night trailer
PSPHyper has embedded the second gameplay trailer from the forthcoming Playstation Portable title Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The original soundtrack album, featuring music by Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi, is due out April 14 in Japan.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-18  0 comments   
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Machinarium's Amanita Design branches out into movies
Amanita Design, of the award-winning independent games Machinarium and Samorost 2 is doing production design for the film Kooky´s Return (Kuky se vrací). Magical realism is crafted by Amanita's Jakub Dvorský and music is by Czech film composer Michal Novinski.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-19  0 comments   
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Cave Story creator's video interview
Cave Story composer and overall mastermind Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya gives his first video interview for Nintendo’s Developer’s Voice series. It includes some added PR by Nicalis producer Tyrone Rodriguez, who gave a talk at GDC on marketing strategies for videogame developers.
4 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-15  0 comments   
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Rick Mann: animated 8-Bit office politics
Parker Simmons has animated a comedic take-off on Mega Man called Rick Mann, which takes place in the workplace. The Blue Bomberesque music and sound effects are by Tommy Robbin (Ockeroid on Newgrounds.)
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-19  0 comments   
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[Discussion] Reminder: Switching servers, guest posting temporarily disabled
Nobuooo is switching servers in order to offer added features to the website. In the interim, guest posting and comments are temporarily disabled. Please email to have your stories posted during the transition and thanks for your patience during this process.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-19  0 comments   
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32X resurrected for Super 32X 15th Anniversary Album
It's astounding to think that more than 15 years has passed since Sega's ill-fated and over-priced 32x add-on crashed into our lives, but Sega music label Wave Master wants to remind us of this recent anniversary with a tribute release: the Super 32X 15th Anniversary Album.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-03-19  0 comments   
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