Photos by Emi Spicer & Marjorie Becker Layers of rock-hard ice continued to freeze over the cold pavement of Wyckoff Avenue in New York City’s northeastern borough of Queens last Saturday night. But unbeknownst to many of the sleepy street’s residents, an environment entirely opposite had briefly come into being at Silent Barn, the area’s…
OSV has finally arrived at one of our favorite events of the year: Northern Virginia’s Music and Games Festival (MAGFest). The renowned 4-day videogame music party is starting off louder than usual this year as it seems that for the first time ever, the Fest has truly reached critical mass. The normally mid-sized festival is…
It was an especially cold December in New York City this year. And it had nothing to do with the massive blizzard that was whipping 18 inches of snow around at speeds up to 35 mph. It had to do with the fact that, for the first time in a long while, the five boroughs…
Did anyone wake up to the jazzy-fresh Christmas present that George & Jonathan left for us under the Internet Tree last night? If not, it’s time to wake up and smell the yule log, because Philadelphia’s funkiest chiptune duo have gifted us with THE BEST CHRISTMAS, a mix of new material and kickin’ holiday jams…
In case you missed it the first time around, the soundtrack to Amanita Design’s atmospheric steampunk point-and-click adventure Machinarium is getting a reprint on vinyl courtesy of Czech label Minority Records. Tomas Dvorak’s outstanding score is one of the most captivating and effective examples of game audio in recent memory, melding bizarre organic soundscapes with…
For fans of indie videogames, the hottest new spot in the five boroughs of New York City this year has no doubt been the Babycastles indie arcade on 42nd Street in Manhattan. Opened in early October, the space has quickly become the de facto center of indie game culture on the east coast, decked out…
My time at Seattle’s Penny Arcade Expo this past weekend wasn’t an entirely wholesome experience: Delayed for 15 hours in JFK airport and denied entry to the Friday night concerts upon my arrival, PAX was, to say the least, not off to a great start. That all changed, however, when Alex Neuse of retro indie…
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