DO YOU LIVE IN VIRGINIA? Or are you going to be in Virginia on the 1st of January, 2009? Because if you are, then you might be interested in attending MAGfest – a two day festival dedicated to celebrating videogame culture and videogame music in particular. According to the official website (which I linked in the previous sentence), all sorts of neato people are going to be there, including Richard Jacques, Tommy Tallarico, Jake “virt” Kaufman, and George "The Fat Man" Sanger. And as if that wasn’t enough, there will also be the world’s first live performance of METROID METAL.

HOLY SHIT.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but I would happily murder each and every one of you if it meant I could see METROID METAL performed live. So, with that in mind, if there are any Faustian demons reading that are interested in making a deal for my immortal soul, then by all means, drop me a line and we’ll talk. (This also goes for anyone who is attending and interested in doing a write-up for us.)

SPEAKING OF METROID: Unbelievably gorgeous Metroid fan-game, Metroid SR388, now has an official website. If you like Metroid and haven’t heard of SR388 before now, then here: give your eyeballs an orgasm. Make sure they don’t quiver out of their sockets, though! You will need them to cry with later on when Nintendo inevitably shuts the project down for copyright infringement.

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HEY YOU! Do you like... MUSIC?

If you answered, "Yes, except for blue-eyed American a capella singers doing pissweak versions of Christmas carols with smug grins on their stupid faces," then THIS IS AN ARTICLE FOR YOU.

(It's about videogame music arrangements.)