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Nobuooo's Comic Market 81 flickr photo set

Over 200 photographs from the first two days of Comic Market 81 have been uploaded to our flickr photo album. They include photos with videogame musicians Daisuke Amaya, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki, Kou Ogata, Julie Watai, Hiroshi Okubo, Hiroki Kikuta, Ayako Saso and Shinji Hosoe. Further images will be made available tomorrow from the final day of Comiket at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center.

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Fami-Mode returns to Kichijouji on January 28, 2012

Tokyo's METEOR game culture shop is preparing its next annual all-night Fami-Mode Famicom party, which will take place at…

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In Depth: Square Enix's 2011 TGS Music Booth

This year Square Enix's Tokyo Game Show music department booth gave away copies of their sixth annual CD sampler. The disc included tracks from Final Fantasy Type-0, ReBirth / Seiken Densetsu Kenji Ito Arrange Album, Cafe SQ, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, Final Fantasy XI Original Soundtrack -PLUS-, Chaos Rings Omega, El Shaddai & The Astrals and Piano Collections Final Fantasy I-III.

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Indie Game Music Bundle sale includes ten albums for $1

The Indie Game Music Bundle will be available on Black Friday only, with…

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IndieCade 2011 flickr set (160 photos)

Take a look at our photos from the IndieCade 2011 awards ceremony, taking place October 7, 2011 in Santa Monica, California. We will be at IndieCade in Culver City all weekend uploading photos from the festival of independent games, so check back for new images from the show.

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Hitoshi Sakimoto scores Guild 01's Crimson Shroud

During the Level-5 Vision conference, the publisher released a reveal trailer for 3DS game compilation Guild 01. In addition to three other games, including one by Suda51, Guild 01 will include an adventure game named Crimson…

And now a selection of popular news items on videogame music from September of 2011. News on Nobuooo can be kept up with by liking our Facebook page, subscribing to the RSS feed, and following the website on Twitter. A ground-up redesign and DVD on game composers working in Japan are well underway. Stay tuned for further details.

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Tokyo Game Show 2011 flickr photo set (360 photos)

Take a look at our flickr photo set, containing images from the 2011 Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, Japan. Also included in the 360 photograph album are scenes from the Grasshopper Manufacture…

Here are a selection of the most popular news items on the subject of videogame music for August of 2011. News on Nobuooo can be kept up with by liking our Facebook page and subscribing to the RSS and Twitter feeds.

A new server is currently being set up to host a preliminary redesign of the website, with user-generated content not yet functional. The new site will allow browsing by category and tags.

Translation on the Videogame Music in Context in Japan DVD has been completed. The time of public release for both the DVD and read-only preliminary redesign is…

These are a selection of the most popular news items on the subject of videogame music from July of 2011. News on Nobuooo can be kept up with by liking our Facebook page and subscribing to the RSS and Twitter feeds.

Work is underway refomatting several hundred archived news items in the format of the renewed website and editing interview footage for the Videogame Music in Context in Japan DVD.

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Anime Expo 2011 flickr photo set (100 pics)

Over 100 photos from the 2011 Anime Expo have been uploaded to our flickr photo set. The annual event is taking…

This installment of the Nobuooo monthly recap features news from the 2011 E3 Expo, taking place in Los Angeles, California. News on Nobuooo can be kept up with by subscribing to the RSS and Twitter feeds. Work on a ground-up website redesign and Videogame Music in Context multimedia project is still underway.

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Nobuooo E3 2011 flickr photoset (240 photos)

The Nobuooo website will be uploading photos from the show floor of E3 over the course of the expo. Featured are snapshots from the Into the Pixel art gallery and with the game creators behind Once Upon a Monster, ehcochrome…

May saw the release of the first Portal 2 soundtrack for free download, Akira Yamaoka announced the full lineup for the charity album Play for Japan, and IndieGames.com posted the third Independent Games Composer chat featuring Baiyon, this time hosted by Emily Ridgway. News on Nobuooo can be kept up with by subscribing to the RSS and Twitter feeds. Work on a ground-up website redesign and Videogame Music in Context multimedia project is still underway.

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Chip Maestro is an NES MIDI synthesizer cart

Biomedical engineer Jarek Lupinski from Hoboken, NJ, likes to reformat NES cartridges in his spare time.…

April was an eventful month for Spanish developer Locomalito. Their Hydorah Arranged Tracks album was made available online for free download. Meanwhile Spanish composer Gryzor87 shared his Viriax soundtrack and studio album Sounds & Shadows. News on Nobuooo can be kept up with by subscribing to the RSS and Twitter feeds. Work on a ground-up website redesign and Videogame Music in Context multimedia project is still underway.

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Koichi Sugiyama scores Dragon Quest X

Game creator Yuji Horii has confirmed that Dragon Quest X is still in development for the Nintendo Wii, despite no assets or details having been released…

March was the month of the 2011 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Beyond Good and Evil HD soundtrack was made available for free download, and game composers began organizing charities for earthquake relief in Japan. News on Nobuooo can be kept up with by subscribing to the RSS and Twitter feeds. Work on a ground-up website redesign and Videogame Music in Context multimedia project is still underway.

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Game composers express hope for Japan's swift recovery

IndieGames.com has posted links to several fundraising efforts and shows of support for victims of the Fukushima earthquake. Composers of independent games who…