The game is simple: left and right arrows move a be-scarfed avatar through a quiet rural landscape, complete with slate-grey skies and a breeze that echoes in that particularly wintry way. Snowflakes ...

Audio has been moving steadily toward higher fidelity and resolution as components become cheaper and more advanced. If it ain’t 24-bit and 192kHz, many people simply aren’t interested. But this week, ...

Jeremy Kolosine is executive producer of 8-Bit Operators: The Music of Kraftwerk Performed on Vintage 8-bit Video Game Systems. He talks about the project. This piece was performed at the Bent ...

Ary Warnaar, guitarist for the New York chiptunes band Anamanaguchi, famously described 8-bit music as “the punk of electronic music.” It was hard to dispute that claim as Datapop 3.0 kicked off the ...

Earlier this year, the Digital Culture Beat had the pleasure of attending the “8-bit Music Exhibit” for the Digital Studies Institute, planned by Toni Bushner and Norah Vulpes — a digital scholarship ...

The Very Best's "Let Go" isn't your standard-issue 8-bit-inspired music video. While it has all the fun and side-scrolling action of an 8-bit video, the clip for the indie duo's new track also has ...

Like a relentless swarm of Space Invaders, retro videogame graphics have marched into music videos over the past decade. Directors, never immune to the nostalgic allure of the pixel, have injected ...

Ever wonder how the main theme from The Mandalorian would sound if it was part of an arcade game's soundtrack? Well, one fan took it upon themselves to find out in the most creative way possible. In a ...

You’ve got to love that 8-bit sound. Blips and bloops and beeps magically merge together to create choppy, nostalgic melodies that remind us how far we’ve come since the first personal computers. But ...

Hard to remember a more enjoyable time with a plugin. 8-Bit Synth doesn’t just provide aural nostalgia, but heaps of sound modifying potential. UVI wins. Best keyboards for beginners 2025: Get started ...