KORG-DS 10 synthesizer used for a live performance in Japan
At Linear, a “hybrid entertainment floor” in Shibuya, the unreleased KORG-DS 10 music creation software was used to entertain attendees.
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AudiOdyssey: a rhythm game that doesn't require sight
Unwilling to leave visually impaired gamers out of the joy of rhythm gaming, designers at the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab have built AudiOdyssey. Control for the free PC game is handled by a Wii-mote, which the user waves in time with the music, using buttons to drop samples and clips into the mix.
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Final Fantasy Remix info
"Final Fantasy Remix" will be released August 6, and will include a number of club-style remixes by international musicians, overseen by Uematsu. Ian Hartley and Matt Baggiani will be among them, and announced tracks include The Prelude (FF1), Eternal Wind (FF3), J-E-N-O-V-A (FF8), Maybe I'm a Lion (FF8), and Ronfaure (FF11).
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VG Frequency Composer Spotlight #5: Akihiko Mori
Overall, Mori’s battle theme work shines brightest in Mystic Ark, the Japan-only sequel to The 7th Saga. Mystic Ark is one of three games Mori composed to receive a soundtrack release, but unfortunately the album is marred by a defect, a hiss in the left channel audio.
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The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least
NYTimes article "Futurist Ray Kurzweil Sees a Revolution Fueled by Information Technology": Before the century is even half over, you can be around for the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software. At least that’s Dr. Kurzweil’s calculation.
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Super secret Birth by Sleep trailer
The trailer from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for PSP was leaked to YouTube. They played this in the closed theater at TGS. Anyone know if the music is new?
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Paralyzed man walks in Second Life
Researchers at Japan's Keio University have created an experimental headset designed to monitor brain waves that allowed a man who had been paralyzed for more than 30 years to control a Second Life avatar using only his thoughts.
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OpenCog: a framework for integrative AGI
At the AGI-08 post-conference workshop, Ben Goertzel presented on a paper by the speaker and the Singularity Institute’s director of open source projects, David Hart. There he described the OpenCog software framework for the development and testing of integrative artificial general intelligence.
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Alex Mauer's 9999
Alex Mauer's "9999" features 42 songs using 9 different game system's soundchips. The list includes: NES, Commodore 64, Gameboy, Atari XL computer, MSX computer, IBM PC/DOS, Commodore Amiga, Game Gear, and Sega Genesis.
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Final Fantasy IV DS trailer
This brief English-language trailer contains voice-overs. See it by clicking on the scrollbar beneath the screen to the left of "Final Fantasy IV in-store videos."
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Promotional Consideration: Dragon Quest IV commercials were weird
A downbeat Sugiyama remix and montages of city life were used to promote the Famicom release of Dragon Quest IV in 1990.
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World Destruction trailer
The first trailer for the Nintendo DS title World Destruction features FMV cutscenes and a vocal track by Yasunori Mitsuda. The game is due out in September in Japan.
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Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack released
Though Bionic Commando Rearmed may be delayed until June, the soundtrack is arriving right on schedule. It can currently be downloaded via iTunes.
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Industry Vets Form Music Video Games
Games industry veterans David Warhol of Realtime Associates and Vincent Bitetti, formerly of the Take Two-purchased TDK Mediactive, have announced Music Video Games (MvG), a company focused on delivering casual interactive experiences to gamers and music fans alike.
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[Discussion] New feature: pingbacks
The Zooov network has installed pingbacks. This is an automated feature to let bloggers know that their work is being appreciated by the Nobuooo community. Pings will only be sent out to the comment section of the original post if someone has commented on the news item.
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Persona 4 rush trailer
The new trailer of Persona 4 shows clips of battle sequences and anime cutscenes from the Playstation 2 role-playing title.
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Into the Score 20: Music of the Mushroom Kingdom
Videogame music podcast Into the Score takes a look at the Super Mario RPG original soundtrack and the remix compilation "Heavy Troopa Is Ready To Launch."
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Governing Lethal Behavior
Georgia Tech AI professor Ronald Arkin presents the second of three talks on the theory and formalisms for the implementation of an ethical control and reasoning system potentially suitable for constraining lethal actions in an autonomous robotic system.
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PixelJunk Monsters Soundtrack: An Interview with Otograph
Otograph is Iura Takashi and Oshima Sachiyo. They talk with the official Playstation blog about PixelJunk Monsters with a sample from the game included in the article. Their album "Dive into PixelJunk Monsters" is the first of its kind downloadable from the Playstation Network.
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Space Invaders Extreme Audio Cluster samples
Taito's 30 year anniversary of Space Invaders is being celebrated with a game release on several platforms and a music album. 13 samples are available via Famitsu Online.
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