All That and a Bag of Chiptunes

Chiptune site 8bitpeoples is offering a massive amount of lo-fi 8bit music for the price of nothing. Because nothing is free! But these 100+ albums/EPs/singles worth of awesome NES sounding music to groove to are. Are you confused yet? Me too! 

Get to downloading some of this stuff if you're a fan of chiptunes. If you're not, get to downloading this stuff and broaden your horizons with something new and get right! If you don't know where to start, try some Nullsleep, Minusbaby, and Bitshifter. Go on, don't be shy.

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Next-Gen Game Demakes: Because 8-Bit Anything is Awesome

Forum user junkboy at Way of the Pixel has taken a whole mess of next-gen games and given them the demake treatment. Gone are the flawless 3D renders and sprawling environments that have a life of their own, instead replaced with pixelated 8/16-bit sprites and static backgrounds.

Beauty in games is an eye of the beholder thing. I happen to be crazy for the antique sprite graphics and chiptune music that we're missing in games these days. If the choice came down to paying $60 for a beautiful, hi-tech piece of gaming art, or $15 for pixels and bleep-boops, if they were the same game, with the same story, I'd probably go the $15 dollar route. That is a testament to two things: 1) the quality of many of today's games and developers, who think they can slap hypnotizing graphics over a five hour adventure with a shitty storyline, and 2) classic games never go out of style. I'll always support a developer that caters to the old school gamer in me, even if they do it to market an upcoming movie.

Unfortunately, junkboy's brilliant demakes are images only. Oh what I would do to actually play these games.. 

Attached below are Soul Calibur, Bayoneta, Killzone, and Red Dead Redemption. See the rest here.