The classic SP0256-AL2 speech chip has featured a few times on these pages, and if you’ve not seen the actual part before, you almost certainly have heard the resulting audio output. The latest Python ...

We loved keygens back in the day. Our lawyers advise us to clarify that it’s because of the demo-scene style music embedded in them, not because we used them for piracy. [Patch] must feel the same way ...

As regular listeners of our HipTrax music podcast can attest, I am a big fan of chiptunes. The incredibly dedicated and staggeringly creative community that has sprung from the simple concept of ...

When you think of pop music, what do you think of? Do you think of top 40 radio and the mindless drones that populate the three chord airwaves? Do you think of traditional vocalists mixed with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We speak with professional chiptunes musician, Nullsleep, on how he creates electronic music from synthesized sounds of old-school ...

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. It was a bright and energetic ...

Blip Festival New York 2012 is one of the world’s largest gatherings for chip musicians, who play using the Game Boy, NES, or other old gaming consoles. Blip Festival New York 2012 is one of the world ...

Chiptune music is one the many phenomena that '80s era gaming nostalgia spawned — but to get into it you need to mod a working 30-year-old NES into an instrument. Now, a company called Assorted Wires ...

For about as long as I've had a smartphone, I've used it to waste time playing games. Good games like Threes and Space Grunts and Alto's Adventure, but bite-sized time wasters nonetheless. It wasn't ...

Chiptune music – tunes made using hacked sound chips from video game hardware – is as well-known to many gamers who snap to the nostalgic bleeps and bloops as it is known to fans of creative ...

I like Denver-based, danceable post-punk outfit the Ideal Fathers a lot. I like the bleepy, chirping 8-bit soundscapes of chiptunes a lot. So you can imagine my excitement today when I stumbled upon a ...