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There are more artists using this name: 1) JAXX is the name Patrick Jacks has used in the video game arrangement community, He was inspired by video game composers such as: Hiroki Kikuta, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yuzo Koshiro , Nobuo Uematsu and others. He was fascinated with the idea of recreating nostalgic retro game music that he grew up with. He started out in the scene using tracker programs, messing around with midi arrangements and what not then started putting out arrangements in a punk/rock style, which he was more familiar with and is most known for in the scene.

There are several artists with this name: 1) Game Over is a heavy metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1998 by guitarist Wire McQuaid (the stage name of Elisabeth Pezouvanis). Game Over's songs are arrangements of video game music, primarily that of games for the Nintendo Entertainment System such as The Legend of Zelda and Mega Man 2. Game Over has produced two demo albums: Nintendo Metal (2002) and NESperado (2006). Some of their songs are available free of charge at OverClocked ReMix.

Anamanaguchi is a four-piece group from New York City that makes emotional punk, pop & dance music using hacked Nintendos, Game Boys, and 16-bit soundscapes along with a full band. Anamanaguchi is Peter Berkman (guitar, songwriting), Ary Warnaar (guitar, songwriting), James DeVito (bass), and Luke Silas ('knife city', drums). A member of the artist collective 8bitpeoples, Peter Berkman has been creating chiptune music since 2003. Their debut, 'Power Supply' EP, was released in 2006 as a free download through 8bitpeoples and has since received a ton of downloads.

Read more about Anamanaguchi on Last.fm.

http://www.onelifeleft.com One Life Left is a podcast focusing on Video Games based in London, UK
They normally don't talk a lot about games, and their news isn't exactly NEWS but that's the joy of OLL. People involved: Ste Curran used to be Editor-at-Large at Edge Magazine, where he was predominantly responsible for writing wordy, over-earnest features, living life as RedEye, and acting like a petulant teenager. He now works as Creative Director at games studio Zoë Mode. He’s written three books about videogames, most recently ‘Game On!’ with his Triforce co-authors.