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So I’ve been wondering when someone was going to step up and create a database with all the badass gaming tracks out there… and as of last week that music has a place to call home.

“Playnit is a Social Music Network for Gamers!
Here you can listen and share hundreds of gaming musics with your friends and people around the world who like the same as you!

If you are a gamer, for sure you already have listened and enjoyed some great music on games which you would like to hear and hear again. Here you can search for hundreds of musics and music-videos of your favorite games. We don’t have the music you are looking for? Don’t worry! Simply ask our community about it!!

On Playnit you have lots of music to listen to. Just search for the game you want and start listening to your favorite videogame music. Everyone is free to upload new music or embed some exciting music videos directly from YouTube. But that’s not all! You can create and personalize your profile, and make your own playlist!”

Ever since the inception of Video Games Live (Video Games Live (VGL) is a concert series created and produced by industry veterans and video game composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall.[1] to help encourage and support the culture and art of video games, featuring music from over 50 major titles. Each featured segment is complemented by projected video footage, synchronized lighting, and on-stage interactive segments with the audience. – Wikipedia) music from the “gaming” genre has become more main stream. I don’t know too many people that if you played “One Winged Angel” for them they would say they’ve never heard it before.

I remember when i was a kid watching the WWF and how much each intro song from each big time wrestler used to stick in my head and those were just midi instrument tracks. Now if you tune into the WWE every wrestler has intro music by some large scale recording artist. Triple H walks down the ramp every night to Motorhead’s King of Kings, recorded specially for him. This is just a loose example of something that also has grown exponentially over the past two decades. The more mainstream video games become the more profitable this avenue of music will become. I think we are just starting to jump into the void that is video game’s music. So if you have a second and you want to check out a cool social website with a lot of interest to the ears check out playnit.com and you can follow the progression of the video game music world along with me.

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and i leave you with this…

Activision is going overboard this fall with a slew of titles from their “Hero” series. Guitar Hero 5, which brings drop-in drop-out play to the franchise, as well as the ability to change instruments and difficulty on the fly. Band Hero, which should be an excellent rip-off of Rock Band with an E10+ ESRB rating for complete family fun. Guitar Hero: Van Halen, which will be the 3rd installment of “band exclusive” series of Guitar Hero games. And the most interesting, DJ Hero, which should introduce a whole new crowd to the genre.

Activision reports:
“The company’s groundbreaking DJ Hero expands Guitar Hero’s signature social gaming to all-new consumers with the addition of diverse music genres including hip-hop, R&B, Motown, electronica and dance. Introducing an all-new innovative turntable controller, DJ Hero transforms players into DJs who rule the club scene by creating original mixes of popular songs and music from the world’s most exciting artists and DJs.”

The slated controller looks pretty interesting. 3 buttons on a classic turntable chassis. I’m really excited to see how they interface the control scheme in the game. The possibilities are endless with this setup. Imagine if they allow you to mix your own songs or even scratch however you want over the preloaded songs. Expect this to be released on all the major consoles so no one will miss out on the fun.

classic~!