If you weren’t at this past MAGFest (and shame on you if that’s the case) and you missed out on the merch area where great artists like Kris Huber were selling their musical ware, you are in luck! Not only can you still purchase physical copies of Huber’s album BLADEMODE that also features fellow MAGFest…
Following up on my last post detailing the milestone 10th anniversary of the Dwelling of Duels music competition, this particular month broke many records in the history of the duels. Sporting a whopping 53 competitors and 9 alternate submissions and totaling an overall listening time of over 4 hours, the event has established a new…
The results are in. This is one of the toughest processes any of us here at OSV have had to go through, but we’ve finally come to a list and ranking that we can all at least kind of agree upon. No, I’m kidding. Even though we each fought for our individual favorites, we all…
It’s that time of year again! With the start of a new year, we have all of 2010 to reflect upon, and we’re doing things a little differently this year. If you recall, last year OSV’s editors rattled off their individual top 5 picks for soundtrack of the year, with separate articles for doujin/arrange and…
MAGFest 8 was my 5th time traveling to the humble convention in Virginia dedicated to the music and fan following of the videogame industry. I started following the arrangement scene after stumbling across The Minibosses in 2002, and shortly after signed up on their message boards, and my life surprisingly took a big turn. I…
[Above: Rising star Coda DJs during virt’s set] We heard a lot of chiptune artists at the New Year’s Eve party, but there was a lot more to hear and love following last night’s three-act set ending with the epic performance by Metroid Metal. Things were off to a late start, as the chiptunes concert…
Yes, it’s true! Jake “virt” Kaufman has confirmed to us in an upcoming OSV interview about his work on Red Faction Guerrilla that he will be moving to the Los Angeles area in January 2010 to work in-house as staff composer and sound designer at Wayforward Technologies, the creators of Shantae and Contra 4 (both…
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