Help support the next season of This Spartan Life!

Created in 2005 by Chris Burke (also known by his chipmusic alias glomag), This Spartan Life is a talk show set inside an unpredictable (and generally explodey) game of Halo. TSL regularly hosts a variety of segments including guest interviews, political debates (with rocket launchers) and synchronized dance routines set to the hottest chiptune jams. Past guests have included Bungie lead composer Marty O’Donnell, Red Vs Blue creator Bernie Burns and former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren. A new season of the award-winning series is now on the horizon, and its creators need your help to make it a reality.

Of course, your generosity won’t go unrewarded: Your contributions to the project make you eligible for a number of neat prizes, including a chance at a virtual in-game date with Amber of the Solid Gold Elite Dancers, who may or may not interpret ‘date’ as ‘burning your face off with a plasma sword.’

Head over to TSL’s page on Kickstarter for more info, and if you’re unfamiliar with the series, check out the official website for past episodes, all available for free.

Cheap Dinosaurs at PULSEWAVE 10.24.09

Philly-based chipmusic ensemble Cheap Dinosaurs, led by Dino Lionetti (formerly of Chromelodeon) cover the psychedelic horror movie music of Goblin at Saturday’s Halloween Pulsewave event. Those Philly kids are something else.

(via TCTD)

Pato Pooh feat. Adam Tensta - ‘Follow Me’

While I’m not a huge fan of the whole ‘videogamez R gangsta’ nerd rap scene, I’ve gotta give props to the new video from Swedish MC Pato Pooh. Silly mile-a-minute retro videogame references aside, there’s some really impressive visual direction here, as well as some rad custom sprite artwork.

Now I just need to figure out why he calls the cartridge a “cassette”. Maybe that’s just a Swedish thing? Or perhaps a linguistic side effect of Stockholm Syndrome. Har har har! Robbing banks is bad, kids.

Xenogears remix album ‘Humans + Gears’ now available

The good ol’ folks at OverClocked ReMix are at it again, and this time they’re paying tribute to one of the games industry’s greatest composers, Yasunori Mitsuda, with this fantastic re-envisioning of the music from the 1998 Squaresoft RPG classic, Xenogears. The album combines sweeping orchestral arrangements with driving electronic beats and features compositions by a plethora of profusely talented OverClocked artists, such as Geoffrey Taucer, LEVEL 99, Oinkness, Chipp Damage, Prophet of Mephisto and many more.

The release marks OverClocked ReMix’s 15th album project, and can be downloaded for free from OCRemix.org — And while you’re there, check out some of OCRemix’s other recent projects, like Final Fantasy IV’s ‘Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption.’

DOWNLOAD: ‘Humans + Gears: Xenogears Remixed’