Up above here we have awesome Gameboy artwork by 8bitcollective member MassiveUntilMorning, with his simply titled but well done DMGpaintjob. Speaking of artwork, our resident artist Nyno added an epic Earthbound inspired Krakken to the background, if you had not noticed yet. Well besides that, this week saw a few big things, one is the return of Joe Allen to the Gamewave Podcast, another was our very own first ever GM4A Records release of Challenge! by Comptroller. Be sure to check out both of those, not to mention all the other big news this past week below.

NEWS

• Amanita $10 Holiday Pack: Machinarium, Samorost 2, both soundtrack albums via Nobuooo
• Report: Distant Worlds - Music from Final Fantasy via GameMusic.net and Nobuooo
• UK Nintendo Channel interviews Koji Kondo via UK Nintendo Channel and Nobuooo
• Pixelh8 @ FACT, Liverpool for the launch of “SUPER CHIP TUNE SAMBA BAND” via Pixelh8.co.uk
• Footage of Gaijin Games/Robotube making a game at Blip via Bytejacker

PODCASTS

• Nerdy Show Episode 17: Life Day Special
• Nitro Game Injection #125: Injection
• Gamewave Podcast episode #47

REMIXES Latest OCReMix releases

• Wild Arms 'A Ring and a Promise' by Ashleigh James, bLiNd
• Final Fantasy X 'A Fine Place to Live' by halc
• Sonic & Knuckles 'Hidden Within' by Xenon Odyssey
• Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Houseki 'Thrash's Snakebone Pit' by OA
• OutRun 'Shiny New Ferrari' by LuIzA

Other singles and releases

• The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap 'Palace of Winds' by Zelda Reorchestrated

VIDEO The video this week is of course from the recently passed Blip Festival 2009. Well perusing for some recaps of the event I came across little-scale's blog and found some footage of the amazing J. Arthur Keenes Band performing pieces from their latest Pause release Pamplemousse.

Remember to leave a comment with awesome articles, songs, videos, art, etc. for next weeks round up as well!