Today sees the release of two new electro-pop/witch-house/epic space-synth albums from The Electric Witch. The one of most interest to old-school video game lovers is NEScapism, a collection of Nintendo covers wrapped up in a loving, nost...

So, how many parallels to LOST can you spot in this Dead Island trailer? Here's what I caught: 1. Eye opening shot 2. Deliberate piano music 3. Three shifting time lines a) In reverse b) Forward c) Flashback 4. On an island 5. Full of be...

You can watch an entire set from my band The Surfactants right now over on our site. Woo.

Yeah, I know that none of you reading this will be able to make it out to far-flung Duluth, Minnesota just to see my humble band play a show at a hipster pizza joint, but I'm going to shove this in your face anyway. Mostly because of the ...

Hey synthpop fans! I'm going to be interviewing Freezepop very very soon. If you've got a question that's just burning inside of you like a questionable burning sensation that burns, then by all means unleash it upon the comments here. Y...

As our most sexy and savvy constant readers at Japanator already know, I sort of have a thing for music. As those very same readers may not know, despite being sexy and savvy (and, might I say, of above average intelligence ) I also make ...

On Saturday, April 11th, I found myself shaking hands with on of my heroes, Nobuo Uematsu. The man has written not only some of the best video game music around, but some of the best music ever, period. I talked to both Uematsu-san and ...

Chances are good that most of us around here first heard the band Freezepop in some Guitar Band Rock Hero game. Oh maybe you saw my interview with them a while back here on Destructoid. Well, now's your chance to get your fat ass up and...

The video above is the opening fanfare written by Jonne Valtonen for the forthcoming Symphonic Fantasies concert. Symphonic Fantasies is the new SquareEnix tribute concert arranged by Valtonen and conducted by Arnie Roth, the man behind t...

That's the new video for "Phantom Planet" from Beat Crusaders Obviously it's not made 100% in LittleBigPlanet, but they did a good job of emulating the style and breaking it out into the "real world." You might also know these guys from ...

This post is a response to Topher's review of Flower. It's also about Anthony and Brad's review as well, but to a lesser extent. This could have just gone into the comments, but it ballooned in size pretty fast. Instead of clogging the co...

I was just minding my own business, sifting though the batch of new music in an attempt to cobble together the next episode of Japanator Radio. I usually put it off until the last minute on Sunday night, then brew up some coffee and leisu...

Elizabeth Ito is a super cool artist/illustrator and sort of a friend of mine. She's done a lot of really great work for various animation studios, but what I really love is her regular arty art stuff. She's got some work appearing in th...

When it comes to heroic characters in games, it's no surprise that they are almost always the main character in the game. Putting the player into the role of the hero is the main purpose of most games. We all want to be the ones showered ...

Andrew Fulton is an illustrator working in Australia. He creates all sorts of super cool and sometimes super cute pieces. I hesitate to call them "cartoons" or "strips," but I guess that's what they are. Sort of. Anyway, here is his newe...

Right now over on Japanator lives my glorious list of the The Best Japanese Albums of 2008...so far, that is. Why wait for the holidays when everyone has their heads firmly shoved up their materialistic/family-loving asses for a look back...

Does giving a score or a letter grade at the end of a game review totally invalidate the text of the review? I think so. How often have you heard the internet scream about someone's score of a game being too high or too low? How often hav...

X-posted from Japanator Otaku USA issue number six has just hit the newsstands (do they even say "newsstands" anymore?) and once again it's chock-a-block with great anime, manga and general otaku goodness. Oh, and a few pages of music co...

Right now, forensics experts are investigating something that sounds eerily like the survival horror video game Rule of Rose. At Haut de la Garenne, a children's home on Jersey island, (part of the channel islands, located between souther...

This entry is a reaction to both the new Moby album Last Night and, to a larger extent, the short essay included in the liner notes. It reads: "I started going out in New York City in the early '80s. My friends and I would get on the tra...