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Hot on the heels of the game's "Peer Review" DLC, Valve has made available the third and final volume of "Songs to Test By," free of charge (as usual) through the game's official publicity site. There are 24 tracks, including the closing credits theme "Want You Gone," plus another six snippets for ringtones. The Volume 3 .zip file is 141 megabytes. More »
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The world's most powerful collection of video game music remixes has delivered yet another outstanding free fan-made tribute album, as OverClocked ReMix releases Humans + Gears: Xenogears ReMixed. More »
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Ease your way out of work and into weekend mode with the lovely soundtrack from Jonathan Blow's Braid, now available for free online play and purchase. More »
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Lisa Miskovsky - the lady behind the Mirror's Edge theme song Still Alive - is apparently a household name in her native Sweden, although has yet to crack the US charts with her musical stylings. More »
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While you sit around waiting for the Castle Crashers multiplayer to start working, why not take the time to grab the game's soundtrack which has been uploaded to Newground.com in MP3 format. The tracks are released under a Creative Commons license that allows you to share or remix them as long as you give proper attribution and you don't try to use it for commercial purposes. As well as listening to the tracks via the site, you can also download them directly using the little floppy disk icon next to the licensing info. Joyous and free Castle Crashers tunes [Xbox 360 Fanboy] More »
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..and by 'Released' we mean 'put up on a website in a Zip file'. Say what you like about the democratizing power of the internet - it does rather suck the glamour out of album launches. More »
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The classic sound of a room full of arcade games all going at once started to vanish before the coin-op arcade started its slide to extinction. Game audio and speech got more sophisticated and music evolved into soundtracks, creating a blend different from the early to middle 1980s. But the Arcade Ambience Project has created more than eight hours of mp3s, sorted by year that depict arcades at their height, buzzing, chirping and whirring like a field of crickets on a summer evening. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5040905&view=rss&microfeed=true This little beauty is never going to give the iPod any sleepless nights (or even the Zune, bless it's funny little heart) but for gamers of a certain age — or just music fans who appreciate a classic game when they see one — it has a certain charm. More »
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Playstation Underground members were given a special treat with this week's newsletter. With the arrival (or imminent arrival. I still haven't gotten mine...) of the God of War: Chains of Olympus demo disc, Sony decided to offer gamers a little bonus in the form of a downloadable MP3. So, if you have a hankering to hear the epic music from the demo's "Battle of Attica" click the link below and be transported to the mythic world of Kratos and his monster massacring badassery (yes, I just made that up). More »
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I have totally given up on buying music. I don't go around stealing it, it's just that there's a lot of people out there who are making great tunes are willing to share them for free. It's for the love of the art or something important-sounding like that. Today, Kotaku Tower got an email from lad in Ireland who writes: More »
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The Wii is no multimedia device. More »
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Sister gadget site Gizmodo has snaps from the Leipzig Nintendo DS brochure showing off the MP3 player that will go on sale later this year. In what looks like a rebranded Play-Yan Micro cart, the player will take up the GBA cartridge slot, use SD memory cards up to 2GB and will feature its own headphone jack. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=198343&view=rss&microfeed=true I poked around on FlymingOmelette.com for a while but can't really determine the purpose of the site. It seems to be one of those old-fashioned "homepages", complete with circa-1996 neon-on-black colorscheme, flaming GIF text, and a vague feeling of claustrophobia. More »
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A Kotaku reader took apart an old NES controller and converted it into an MP3 player, how sweet is that? Unfortunately the source site is in German (I believe). Martin says that since taking the pics of his new player he's replaced the battery with a rechargeable one that can charge will plugged into a computer with a USB cable. More »
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Electronic Arts is making the big move into music sales. The publisher announced today that they are teaming up with Nettwerk Music Group to launch EA Recordings. EAR (they're so clever) will distribute EA's game music for download as ringtones and mp3s via a variety of online services like iTunes and Rhapsody. More »
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