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Update: You have 24 more hours for this challenge. Get your tracks in by midnight Sunday (Pacific Time).

For this challenge, I want you to unleash your inner rapper, rocker, warbler — whatever you like.

Just write a song of any genre from a cappella to zydeco, and make it about video games. Throw a diss-rap to the 1UPpers (or at Bitmob, if you've joined us from 1UP), dedicate an acoustic ballad to Alyx Vance, produce a spoken word tribute to Pong — your choice.

Don't worry if you don't have million-dollar equipment, or if your chops or voice aren't up to Jonathan Coulton's grade — Bob Dylan can't sing and the Sex Pistols couldn't play their instruments.

But what if you can write but not sing? Or you can produce but don't have a poetic bone in your body? I've seen poems on Bitmob, and vocal-less beats that could use some lyrics on top of them — volunteer your services in the comments and maybe we'll see some cool collaborations.

So, here are the full details:

  • Register on Bitmob with your real name and email address.

  • Write and record a song about video games. Maybe offer a hand writing/recording in the comments.

  • Post your song to YouTube. Don't worry about a video — a still picture will do.

  • Link to it in the comments. Be sure to name any collaborators.

  • Do all that by midnight Pacific Time (8AM for me, in Britain) on Sunday.

  • On Monday, I'll post a playlist of the entries.

  • I'll also pick one name out of a hat to win a fabulous prize. You'll have to live in North America, or pay for shipping yourself I'm afraid. You can enter more than once, or submit your own entry along with a collaboration, but your name only goes into the hat once.

I couldn't ask you to put yourselves out there without offering my own example. Here's a playlist of some songs by gamers, starting with something I made earlier.

 

Other Musical Activities

If you don't want to write a song, you might want to check out Ed Tremblay's challenge over at 1UP to cover a game theme-tune.

Not everyone's a musician but most people are DJs, so hop on over to James DeRosa's Community Jukebox and tell him what video game music to play.

Join the Bitmob Last.fm group and help paint a picture of the Mob's taste in music.