At an anime convention in Boston, Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu said off-handedly that the Super Mario Bros. theme should have been played at the Olympics, and not Japan’s national anthem. Is there something deeper going on, though? More »
You’ve heard his music countless time in your favourite Final Fantasy games, but there’s more to composer Nobuo Uematsu than “One Winged Angel”. More »
MTO USA’s PSP puzzler Kurulin Fusion combines “futuristic graphics” with a musical score directed by Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, and it’s available later today on the PlayStation Network. MTO USA’s marketing pitch? “Have fun. Don’t eat.” More »
It’s a simple question! You may have supposed, like I always did, it had something to do with Square’s propensity for giving everything a stupid, stupid name. If you did, well, we’re both wrong. More »
Renowned Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu rocked San Francisco last Saturday along with Grammy award-winning conductor Arnie Roth at the Distant World concert. More »
OverClocked Remix, the cooperative dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of video game music, has just released an arrangement of 46 tracks of the Final Fantasy IV musical score. More »
If you missed Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu in Seattle last weekend and you don’t have tickets to this weekend’s show in San Francisco, you’ll just have to move to Japan and stalk him. More »
You need to be in Seattle from July 9 to 11, and you need a hundred bucks. The Seattle Symphony is giving a three-day performance of Final Fantasy’s score, and Nobuo Uematsu will be attending. More »
If you’ve ever read a copy of EGM or popped over to 1UP, you’ll know the name James Mielke. Guy’s been with Ziff Davis for a while now, and is currently Editor-in-Chief over at 1UP.com. Anyway, he recently proposed to his girlfriend. But didn’t just do the bended-knee thing. He went all video game nerd, roping in a couple of “friends” to help him make things special. Those friends? None other than composer Nobuo Uematsu and designer Yoshitaka Amano, both most famous for their work on the Final Fantasy series. Amano designed the ring (pictured), Uematsu a melody that Mielke had playing when he proposed. Girlfriend said yes, mission accomplished, thousands of FInal Fantasy nerds the world over find themselves getting all misty-eyed.
