Composer David Farrell started making 8-bit covers of Christmas songs several years ago for fun. Using tones roughly based on the sounds that an old Nintendo console makes, Farrell would generate the ...

In the basement of a Bowery Street bar in lower Manhattan a musician was working the crowd like a younger (and geekier) version of Keith Richards. Slung waist high was not a guitar, but a PC keyboard ...

Earlier this year, the Digital Culture Beat had the pleasure of attending the “8-bit Music Exhibit” for the Digital Studies Institute, planned by Toni Bushner and Norah Vulpes — a digital scholarship ...

On a typical day in 1992, the young guy who would go on to become the chip-rockers Anamanaguchi would be hanging out in their parents' basement. Bottles of Jolt cola might be sitting next to a ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

As far as the Internets go, Doctor Octoroc is the real deal — he's the animator, composer, and wizard behind more or less every good retro videogame parody online, like “Jersey Shore: The RPG,” “Game ...

Your retro-console has never sounded this good before! Featuring more than 15 original compositions by popular Japanese artists, 8-Bit Music Power Final puts chiptunes in your console, charming ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I played video games as much as any other kid growing up in the GameCube era. My earliest memories ...

Metallica played a virtual concert to kick off this year’s online edition of BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment’s annual gaming convention. But midway through the free livestream, the Tech Times reports ...