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Interesting Masaya Matsuura point of view about the state of music games . "In Musika, [NanaOn-Sha’s first iPod game] we tried generating game data from ID3 metadata, while, in our most recent game, Major Minor’s Majestic March, we allowed the player to play with the tempo of music, as well as its...

Funk Band-Bass Hero →

Trent Reznor did write a post on what to do to sell music today with the net, the clouds and all. “Forget thinking you are going to make any real money from record sales. Make your record cheaply (but great) and GIVE IT AWAY. As an artist you want as many people as possible to hear your work. Word of...

Surround sound files →

“Happy birthzzzzZZZ” Thirty years old ala old school with family. I had this idea of throwing a party at my place letting everybody write on the walls but I was too busy falling in love 10K kms away. Sorry. This picture makes me smile and sad at the same time. Smile because I remember my grandfather...

sunday truth →

Music games might not need consoles in the future says  Harmonix creative director Josh Randall: "Your instrument can have all these songs and you just plug it into your TV. I’m sure it [the genre] is going to start to move in weird ways that no-one’s even thought of yet." Well maybe hooked...

Freedom mobility and old gems →

Is it a gang sign? I’m watching MJ’s funerals in L.A. Streets are calm, it seems like the entire city is watching it too. Michael Jackson from my french countryside point of view. He was so all over the medias in the 80s, even in my little village in the middle of France. I forgot about that...

MJ →

Something really is that in the game industry on this 2009 half year. Triple A games are all sequels –I still have hard times to believe we’re at the fucking number 14 of the Final Fantasy serie- sometimes it’s good sometimes it’s bad the sure thing is, it’s a bit boring. Maybe totally for old fart gamers...

Tedious →