| MGS4 wins Spike's Best Original Score awardMetal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots received the award for best original score at the 2008 Spike Video Game Awards. The other nominated titles were LittleBigPlanet, Fallout 3, and Spore. |
| Their music for video games depends on playLA Times article on videogame musicians Garry Schyman, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Steve Jablonsky. "In a few short years, as the visual effects and realism of video games have evolved, so too have their soundtracks -- from comical bleeps and annoying loops of ear candy to lush, epic soundtracks that instantly adapt to fit whatever a player decides to do." |
| Third Birthday dkΣ3713 VideoGame no Hanashi has the trailer for Parasite Eve: The Third Birthday for PSP that premiered at the invitation-only dkΣ3713 event in Japan. Music is by Yoko Shimomura. |
| Gradius ReBirth soundtrack announcedKonamistyle has announced an original soundtrack album for Gradius Rebirth by Manabu Namiki. The album includes 15 original tracks, 15 arranged from previous Gradius titles, and four medleys. It will be released February 27. |
| GameSetWatch Interview: The Korg DS TrioAn interview conducted by two Nobuooo contributors with the Korg DS Trio for GameSetWatch. The subject is the making of the music creation software for the Nintendo DS and the performance at the EXTRA Hyper Game Music Event. The participants are Nobuyoshi Sano (Ridge Racer), Michio Okamiya (The Black Mages) and Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger). |
| Final Fantasy XIII DVD trailers releasedAndrew Yoon at PS3 Fanboy has found two trailers for Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII taken from the recently released Final Fantasy XIII DVD. See them before they vanish from the internet. Music is by Masashi Hamauzu and Yoko Shimomura. |
| Dragon Quest IX gameplay trailerGame no Hanashi has posted a trailer for Dragon Quest IX featuring full motion video, gameplay and the overture theme by Koichi Sugiyama. |
| Scientists extract images directly from brainResearchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep. |
| Terasem 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic PersonsMichael Anissimov offers a preview of the 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons in Melbourne Beach, Florida. The gathering addresses legal issues related to cryonics patients, cyborgs, artificial biological intelligent beings, enhanced human beings, and AIs. He will be blogging the entire event. |
| Game|Life Video: The Man Behind Rock BandChris Kohler of Wired Game|Life has a video conversation with Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Rock Band creator Harmonix. They discuss the company's history, why music games are so important to both the gaming and music businesses, and a little bit about how the Beatles game deal came to fruition. |
| A sneak peek at Daniel Pemberton's LittleBigMusicDaniel Pemberton has news that LittleBigMusic, his own collection of 18 tracks composed for the game LittleBigPlanet, is nearly due for an iTunes release. Most notably, Pemberton is the man behind 'The Orb of Dreamers,' the warmly angelic dusty-vinyl ambient track that marks your entry into the game. |
| 3-Way Split Album ReviewAnthony of Game Music 4 All reviews 3-Way Split, which marks the fifteenth release by netlabel Pterodactyl Squad. The album includes three distinctive interpretations of chiptune music by ArcadeComa, L'Homme Manete, and Seal of Quality. |
| Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthyA commentary in this week's issue of the journal Nature argues that cognitive performance-enhancing drugs should be made widely available, and sets out an ethical and legal framework for doing so. Contributors to the article include a Stanford law professor, a Cambridge research psychiatrist, and a Harvard med-school professor. |
| Last Remnant Disc 2 samplesYasuhiro Yamanaka joins the Sekito Clinic blog to preview tracks 29 through 32 of the Last Remnant original soundtrack. The three-disc soundtrack album for the Xbox 360 RPG by Square Enix goes on sale today in Japan. |
| Eric Drexler launches Metamodern blogMolecular nanotechnology pioneer and cryonics advocate Eric Drexler has launched his own blog called Metamodern: The Trajectory of Technology. He will be discussing current progress in science and technology, often with a specific perspective in mind: how current progress can contribute to the development of advanced nanosystems. |
| 8-bit Jesus, the NES themed chiptune holiday albumDoctor Octoroc has uploaded a 9-track preview of his unfinished (how many more can he come up with?) Christmas chip-tune album, each song done in the style of a different NES game from 'Little Drummer Nemo' to 'The Legend of Noel' to 'Super Jingle Bros.' |
| Korg DS-10 + bendy straw = handheld talkboxIn his purple plastic new-wave shades, Jetdaisuke speaks the universal language of awesome in explaining how to construct a portable talkbox out of a plastic straw, a DSi, and Xseed's Korg DS-10 software. |
| Strengthening Transnational Governance to Mitigate RisksThe IEET and Center for Responsible Nanotechnology hosted a meeting on Global Catastrophic Risks in November, and the seminar’s theme was “Building a Resilient Civilization,” for which IEET executive director J. Hughes endorsed strengthening transnational governance to mitigate risks. |
| LittleBigSupernova in motionOffworld has a video of the LittleBigPlanet skin running on Lumines Supernova, the Playstation 3 iteration of the music-centered puzzle action title. The video includes a newly remixed down-tempo LBP track, which fits the Lumines mood moreso than the Go! Team. Supernova is being scored by Takayuki Nakamura and Keiichi Sugiyama. |
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