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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...