While the taxonomy that divides house music from trance from IDM and other electronic sub-genres can get confusing, chiptune (or chip music) is pretty straightforward: It's music made with sound chips ...

If you are in the market for a retro 8-bit chiptune synthesizer you may be interested in a new piece of hardware which is being created by Arcano Systems the form of the Gem-8. The Gem-8 has been ...

The bleeps and bloops from vintage video games like Donkey Kong, Super Mario Land and Mega Man are being celebrated this weekend at a new festival. Boston Bitdown is a three-day bash with dozens of ...

Haven't yet been introduced to the wonders that is the nascent chiptune scene? That's where Paul Owens' Reformat the Planet comes in, a documentary covering the growing 8-bit powered music style. The ...

German developer and musician Alice Zeppa has created an umbrella that uses Piezo sensors to detect rainfall and turn it into chiptunes. German developer and musician Alice Zeppa has created an ...

Following on from their first Kickstarter success, Arcano Systems has this week launched another campaign to crowdfund their new Obscura MIDI 8-bit NES & C64 Chiptune synthesiser which requires just ...

Do you like old-skool videogame music and chiptune acts like Pixelh8, Neotericz and Receptors? Then you’ll be pleased as punch about the launch of 8-bit FM, an internet radio station dedicated to the ...

It's the heavy metal video game that never existed, but should have! For this original clip, we teamed up with the Filthy Frackers to create an 8-bit game trailer for 'The Big Four.' The Filthy ...

We have some news for you and your patrons, both our Sony Loop Library and our EP Limited Edition CD are now available!!! :) The library contains real sounds from each of the following ...