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Chiptunes EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Contest: Win two tickets to Blip Festival 2009 37 Blip Festival, a celebration of all things chiptunes music, is happening this December 17 through the 19 at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York. This is the fourth year Blipfest is taking... Chiptune micro tour bringing the lovin' to the West Coast 13 The chiptune scene is flourishing over in New York. A number of the big-name chiptune performers are situated on the East Coast, probably largely to do with Blipfest happening in New York each ye... Official BIT.TRIP Beat soundtrack ready for download 12 Ladies and Gents, I have a very special announcement to make for fans of the BIT.TRIP series. You see, while the games are oodles of fun, there's a special element of the whole series that just m... Two Chiptune shows coming up in New York 5 First up is a Chiptune show by artists Nullsleep, Bit Shifter, Minusbaby and No Carrier this Thursday night. The show is taking place at the No Malice Palace in New York and best of all, it's fre... BlipFest storming New York again this December 11 The annual festival of all things Chiptunes related returns once again! BlipFest will be taking place on December 17 through the 19 at the Bell House in Brooklyn. The show is open to all ages and... ‘Chip Tuned Rockman’ coming to rock your face, mofos 8 “Chip Tuned Rockman” is an upcoming album full of chiptuned remixes of Mega Man from various Mega Man games. The album will contain 20 tracks and each track is arranged by different a... Chiptunes in the streets of Seattle at PAX 09 45 [Editor's note: Our resident Chiptunes expert, Zen Albatross, checked out Lo-Tek Resistance while at PAX 09. -- CTZ] Videogames are cool and all, but one of the major highlights of my weekend at ... Free chiptune show outside of PAX Friday night 6 Last year at PAX, Fighter X, Circles and other members chiptune artists held a small chiptune concert right outside the front doors of the Seattle Convention Center. The performance was free, all... Anamanaguchi playing in San Francisco this Sunday 14 This Sunday night, Anamanaguchi, Mr. Spastic, A Rival and crashfaster will be playing at the DNA Lounge on 375 Eleventh Street in San Francisco. The show will be from 7PM to 11:30PM and tickets ... Monday Mind Teasers: GROW Games 13 Anyone beat last week's mind teaser yet? Didn't think so. Okay, no more games until we get past that hellacious hurdle -- see you next week!Okay, okay, okay. I'm not that cruel. But I am cruel en... Dr. Zilog's chiptunes "My Girls," with 8-bit video to match 24 Dr. Zilog is a self-described "electronica, experimental, death metal" group that, until today, I'd never heard of. That all changed when they released a chiptunes cover of Animal Colle... 8-bit FM providing round the clock videogame music 36 What do you get when you take Pandora's music streaming concept and replace it with just videogame music? You get 8-bit FM! 8-bit FM is a streaming videogame music station that plays everything f... Blip Festival 2008: The lineup so far 11  It’s almost that time again, Chiptune lovers! The third annual Blip Festival is taking place December 4th through the 7th in New York. Blip Festival is a celebration of the chiptu... PAX 08: The illegal sidewalk concert 27 Confirmed once again: Video games are the new rock and roll.  Here's the memo that we almost missed: August, 29ILLEGAL SIDEWALK SET 2 (Lo-Tek Resistance) @ PAX ... Your Casio has a Famicom slot? Pardon me? 10 As many of you already know, a healthy portion of the Destructoid clan headed to New York late last year for Blipfest, a celebration of music created with the involvement of various retro console... Destructoid crashes the 2007 Blip Festival: Pictures to prove it 34 This past weekend, Analog Pidgin and I prepared ourselves as the Dtoid crew made their way to our neck of the woods (for once) to attend the 2007 Blip Festival. Held this year at Eyebeam in New Y... RetroforceGO! Episode 25: Bit Shifter 17 Yaaay for Monday! Hooray for Monday! Thank god it's Monday!  Yeah, I know that many, many people in the world aren't sharing my enthusiasm for Monday, but they, sadly, just aren't Retroforce... RetroforceGO! recording episode 25 tonight: Chiptunes & a chat with Bit Shifter 41 We receive many emails every week here at RFGO, and most of them are filled with questions. "What is it with Chad and dolphins? Is Chad single? When are you making Chad Concelmo action figur... Blip Festival 2007 -- Official schedule released 25 For anyone still wondering what Blip Festival is like,  this is the trailer for Blip Festival 2006: The Videos that I couldn't get my hands on before. Care of those 8-bit documentarians at ... Blip Festival 2007 -- The Revenge of Chiptunes 16 The only way to follow up an event like the watershed debut of the Blip Festival in 2006 is either to initiate the Apocalypse, or come back bigger, more international and far more bad ass. Since ... 11/29/07 - A big day for Blip Festival 7 Last Friday, those in attendance at Pulsewave, The Tank's monthly chiptunes showcase, got an extra treat when the crew from 2 Player Productions ran the trailer for the Blip Festival 2006 documen... Chiptunes on a chip, just like mom used to make (before she was eaten by bears) 11 Chiptunes artist Alex Mauer has stumbled upon the kind of synergistic, proactive scheme that marketing firms create terms like "synergistic" and "proactive" to describe. Mr. ...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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