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Game Over

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.

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Richter

Richter are a contemporary electropop band from Toronto, Canada.
Richter is also the online alias of a member of OverClocked ReMix. Richter coordinated the "Hedgehog Heaven" project to ReMix the game "Sonic the Hedgehog 2." Finally, Christoph Richter is an austrian artist who released his full-length debut album Audioexile in 2006 on DZihan & Kamien's Couch Records. Just like back in the days, when you turned on your favourite record and nothing else really mattered, Richter takes you there again.

Read more about Richter on Last.fm.

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One Life Left

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.

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Terminator

There are at least 3 artists called Terminator. 1. Terminator (Bzenec, Czech Republic, 1987 - 1996) Terminator was a Czech thrash metal band from Bzenec, founded in 1987 (most of sources mention 1988, though) with first live performance in 1989.
In the same year, the band released their first demo Termination and then another demo Unification (Together against to Death) The debut album Probability of Doom was released in 1991. While the name is in English, all lyrics were in Czech. The album was well accepted and the band got concerts through Europe.

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Anamanaguchi

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.

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Beefy

Hailing from the Northwest, Beefy is a massive presence in the nerdcore hip-hop scene. Since 2005, Beefy has been pushing his positive, pop culture influenced message worldwide, beginning with his debut The Whitesican EP. Never afraid to make references to X-Men comic books or video game vixens, Beefy has also found a way to create his own style backed by pop, rock, and hard powered rap production.

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