8-Bit Artist, 16-Bit Genocide

Chris "8-Bit Artist" Olan is out of steam for now. As he announced this past June, he's gonna be going on an indeterminate hiatus once the upcoming video game music and art showcase 16-Bit Genocide goes down. That's Saturday, August 25th in Baltimore, MD. If I wasn't possibly headed to TooManyGames with Mad-Gear the following day in Reading, PA, I'd be there.

Garish looking promotional poster, but it gets the job done. :-D On top of the great bands there (The Protomen, Entertainment System, Powerglove, Anamanaguchi, This Place is Haunted and Temp Sound Solutions), there are gonna be some artists there also bringing the nostalgia, including Chris.

Now every time Chris posts something on his DeviantArt page, I check it out, but his recently posted piece from Super Mario All-Stars' Super Mario Bros. 3 blew me away:


Pretty swanky, eh? And many of those are configurable pieces. Read up on it.

Wait. 3 fireballs at once??? Blasphemy!

I kid, enjoy.

Powerglove no longer needs your help to name a track

As announced today by bassist Nick Avila, Powerglove's previously untitled Final Fantasy VII arrangement has been named thanks to Steven Gregory Passick of Muskego, Wisconsin and Cubby Nuxx of Lubbock, Texas.

"Omnishred" will take it's rightful place on the group's upcoming CD release Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man, alongside tributes to Mega Man II, Mortal Kombat, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy IV, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Tetris, Duck Hunt, Killer Instinct, Guilty Gear and Castlevania.

Not that you have to, but if you want to wait to pick up the album with the chance to get it signed by the band in person, you could always lay low until MAGFest 6...

Powerglove needs your help to name a track

Powerglove announced via MySpace bulletin today that they need title suggestions for their cover of Final Fantasy VII's "Still More Fighting".

Help a brother out (with the best suggestion of course), and you receive the band's upcoming CD, Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man, free!

Get crackin'.

(By the way, the tangentially related image, "Powerglove", is by the versatile artist Kari Fry. Check out her portfolio.)