Blip Fest Promo video

I've never heard of Blip Fest, but apparently it's a festival for gaming related musicians. If this trailer is any indication it might be worth checking out.

Have you heard the news that you're dead?

I took a break today from working on my book. I had downloaded the new My Chemical Romance song from "The Watchmen" soundtrack on iTunes and couldn't get enough. It's way stripped down from their last album "The Black Parade", A straightforward punk cover of the dylan song "Desolation Row" and it's awesome! I can't wait for their new album later this year.
I was inspired to create a concert poster for their show i saw last year at the warfield in san francisco. buy a print here :)

To quote the poet Ice Cube "Today was a good day"

I hit up some thrift stores and a retro gaming store today (probably yesterday as you read this) and I found a bunch of great stuff. Check it out in picture form. It's likely that you will see at least one of these games in a future show at some point.

i've gotta live on an island to find the juice

I woke up on new years morning with an idea for a children's book. I sat down at my desk to write it down and it just poured out. Since working in the video game industry didn't allow me much time to work on my own art, this has been a refreshing start to the new year.
The past few weeks i have working pretty diligently on the illustrations. Here's the first image i created for the book, it's pages 33 and 34 out of 42 pages. I don't know why i started here, out of all the pages it was the easiest one to design. After finishing this one, i felt that i had the tone and style i wanted, and have used it as a template for the rest of the book. i now have about 75% of the book laid out and i hope to be done with it by the end of february. I'll hopefully post some more updates before i finish! What a great way to start out the new year :)

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Quick Update

Things are going good on my end. I posted my Top 10 of 2008 yesterday (which you can see here) and now I'm back to writing more old school reviews. Right now I'm working on 3 different ones. I don't want to spoil what they are but I will say the systems they are on are: The Gameboy, SNES and 3DO, so they cover a pretty broad spectrum. I just wanted to touch base with you all and let you know that I'm still working hard to bring you more videos. It seems like everyone on the site is really kicking it up a notch to get new stuff out, so keep an eye on RetrowareTV for more from the guys and I.
Thanks for the support

-Ben

EPISODE EIGHTEEN: Obligatory New Year's Wish Episode!

Because this is what you do in January. And you're looking for a slim justification for doing another "random funny clippy" show. Enjoy!

ScrewAttack 1337 Awards

Well, we didn't take it. But it was a HUGE honor to be nominated (seriously, I'll be bragging about this for at least a year) alongside titans like Unforgotten Realms and the actual winner, Mega64. Congratulations to all the winners and fellow nominees. Check out the full roster below:

Time Flies....

I know it's been ages since I updated here, but I've been busy. Don't worry though, the show is still being made and I have been working on the biggest video I have made so far. I think it's going well and I hope to have it done in the next few days. I wanted to have it done before new years, but I got too busy and wasn't able to complete it in time. Thanks for your patience and hopefully you'll see something new from me before Monday. :)