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  Ryan Hemsworth and KeyBoardKid206 Share Cloud-Rap Video-Game Tributes

  March 28, 2013 – Hip-hop and the video-game scores of Yasunori Mitsuda are on a collision course lately. Earlier this month, producer 2 Mello shared Chrono Jigga, which put Jay-Z's verses over Mitsuda's music for the influential game Chrono Trigger. A couple of years ago, when Danny Brown got "higher than a pelican in heaven" on Main Attrakionz' "Cloud Skatin'," composer/producer Julian Wass (also of L.A. …
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  Watch Big Boi and B.o.B Murder Drug Lords in Video Game Teaser 'Double or Nothing'

  March 12, 2013 – Last year, SPIN presented an in-depth retrospective tracing hip-hop's long love affair with video games, from the 8-bit Atari days to the Playstation 2's Lil B-assisted role-playing fantasies. Now Big Boi and B.o.B have presented a video for their own arcade-indebted anthem, "Double or Nothing," the official theme song for the soon-to-be-released shoot 'em up adventure Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel.The Vicious Lies and Stran …
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  Game Over: Atari Files for Bankruptcy

  January 23, 2013 – Call it an arcade fire sale: iconic video game maker Atari is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reports Forbes. That could mean that the troubled company is just about out of bonus lives, even though a press release from Atari Inc. …
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  Arcade Fire: 50 Rap Songs Based on Video Game Samples

  October 18, 2012 –  …
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  'BioShock Infinite' Blends Retro Fantasy With Political Reality

  June 27, 2012 – In the thick of a long, nasty political season, it's easy to think the gulf between the left and right in America is wider and more irreconcilable than ever. Except that it isn't. Irrational Games' creative director and self-described "history nerd," Ken Levine, knows this. "There have been many things like the Tea Party before the Tea Party," he explains. …
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  He Said, She Said: The Best Games Unveiled at E3

  June 11, 2012 – If you've been saving up your pennies for the next big video game console, you've pretty much got one choice, the new Wii U from Nintendo. That's the big takeaway from this year's E3 video game trade show, where tens of thousands of game industry types gathered to show off their latest virtual wares. …
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  U, Too: Hands On Nintendo's New Console

  June 8, 2012 – Using an iPad-like tablet controller instead of the motion-control wands of the original Wii (although you can still use those as well), the Wii U had its formal coming-out party at E3 2012, a massive trade show for video games and the geeks who love them. …
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  'The Walking Dead' Gets Its Own Bite-Sized Video Game

  May 2, 2012 – After several years, the era of zombie chic shows no sign of waning. The Resident Evil series continues to pump out video games and movies, Brad Pitt is working on a film version of the popular novel World War Z, and The Walking Dead has become the breakout ratings hit for AMC that the more well-regarded Mad Men and Breaking Bad aren't quite. …
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  Sony Unveils Three New Music-Related Games

  April 23, 2012 – A good music-based video game can be hard to come by. Sure, there were countless iterations of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but that entire karaoke-lite genre is nearly dead, pushed to an early grave by overeager game publishers who assumed everyone wanted to drop $200 on a new set of plastic drums every 12 months. Fortunately, the music game is making a bit of comeback, thanks in large part to Sony. …
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  Massive Attack Producer to Feel Your Halo, Halo

  April 11, 2012 – Neil Davidge may not be a name as tweetable as the Weezys and MDNAs of the world, but modern music lovers certainly know his work: As Massive Attack’s producer since the '90s, Davidge is largely responsible for the direction of the sonic sexscapes that would become Mezzanine, 100th Window and Heligoland. When not creating songs to get pregnant to, Davidge has managed to split his time between working with David Bowie and Snoop Dogg (no …
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