If you’re a fan of virtual reality simulations, music videos, 3D animation and rhythm games, then [NUREN]: The New Renaissance is probably something you’re going to want to keep an eye on. Having just launched it’s Kickstarter, [NUREN] is a project headed by composer Jake “Virt” Kaufman (Shovel Knight, Contra 4) along with Jessie Seeley….
If you’ve been in the video game music fan community for any given amount of time, you may know of the “Dwelling of Duels” competition. If not, Dwelling of Duels (or DoD for short) is a monthly competition for musicians and game music enthusiasts to participate in, requiring the submission to be both attuned to…
I suppose this news isn’t really a surprise to anyone, but we’ve confirmed that Jake Kaufman is responsible for the soundtrack to WayForward’s stunningly beautiful reboot of the BloodRayne franchise, BloodRayne: Betrayal. We saw the game in action and were not only impressed with the visuals, but also the side-scrolling action gameplay that we were…
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…
Jake “virt” Kaufman, the hunky maestro of retro game music, returns this week with the release of the heavily hyped Shantae: Risky’s Revenge Soundtrack, the sequel to the rare and sexy Game Boy Color title released 10 years ago. Jake’s name should be enough to sell you on the quality of the release given that…
On the latest episode of VGMdb’s podcast, Andreas Kotsamanidis (Snappleman) was interviewed about the troubles and triumphs of arranging and producing the album Contra 4: Rocked ‘n’ Loaded. The album which was released on March 5th, is a metal arrangement album of Contra 4 and Jake Kaufman, the original composer even took part in the…
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