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Silent Hill's Akira Yamaoka presenting at GDC 2010
Silent Hill series composer Akira Yamaoka will be delivering a presentation on Friday, March 12 at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Upon departing Konami, Yamaoka recently joined Grasshopper Manufacture. His talk is entitled "As Long as the Audio is Fun, the Game Will Be Too," and will look back on twenty years in game design.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-08  0 comments   
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Wefollow ranks Nobuooo among influential videogame twitter feeds
Wefollow.com, a service that ranks twitter feeds according to category, has listed Nobuooo among 4000 registered videogame-related feeds. The twitter account currently places 55th most influential, between updates on Rock Band DLC and the editor of NowGamer. Gradual improvements to this site's layout are planned for the coming months.
3 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-08  1 comment   
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Garry Schyman scores BioShock 2
Earlier in 2009, composer Garry Schyman returned to the underwater world of Rapture for the highly anticipated sequel to 2008's smash videogame hit, BioShock 2. Recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Schyman's score for BioShock 2 features 50-minutes of orchestral score, performed by some of the best musicians in town.
3 votes  by topdollarpr  on 2010-02-08  0 comments   
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Hironobu Sakaguchi shares sound equipment tips
Mistwalker founder Hironobu Sakaguchi took a break from work on The Last Story to write a blog post in English about his personal sound equipment. Sakuguchi recommends choosing wooden racks for speakers and styrene foam ceiling mounts for an ideal sound environment.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-08  0 comments   
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Bring amazing 8-Bit artists to Houston's Datapop 2010
Now in it's third installment, 8-bit music celebration Datapop will be held in Austin on March 16 and 17, 2010. In previous years it's featured performances by Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, Anamanaguchi, IAYD, Sievert, Starpause, and others. Pledges are currently being accepted on Kickstarter to fund the chiptune event during SXSW week.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-08  0 comments   
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New video game music podcast: This Week in VGM
genoboost from GM4A has started a new weekly podcast covering news and playing new music from the VG inspired music community. The first two episodes are available to download and listen to now.
4 votes  by genoboost  on 2010-02-07  0 comments   
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IGF committee awards Glow Artisan, Sword & Sworcery, Lilt Line
Award recipients for the 2010 IGF Mobile competition have been announced. They include Lilt Line for Audio Achievement, Glow Artisan for Best Mobile Game Design, and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP for Achievement In Art. Independent developers Kyle Gabler (World Of Goo) and Erin Robinson (Puzzle Bots) will host the IGF Awards March 11.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-08  0 comments   
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Gamasutra's Comic Market report interviews online in Japanese
Game Music Mania has posted the original Japanese-language proceedings of the recent Gamasutra report on Comic Market 77. The article links to the homepages of numerous circles whose music remix albums were on sale at the massive Tokyo Big Sight hobbyist gathering.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-08  0 comments   
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Ridge Racers soundtrack headed to iTunes in March
The website Dot Anime has just posted a new online distribution listing for the soundtrack to PSP title Ridge Racers, as part of Namco Sounds' iTunes series. The 34-track digital release, including music by Shinji Hosoe, Ayaka Saso, Nobuyoshi Sano and many others, is expected around March 10.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-08  0 comments   
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Gamma IV sets up Kickstarter appeal to fund GDC Event
Kokoromi's format of challenges + limitations + showcase has previously yielded such games as Jason Rohrer's Passage and Paper Moon by Infinite Ammo with Adam Saltsman. This year their March 10 Gamma IV showcase at GDC will be on the topic of "one-button games." See the in depth Kickstarter appeal at IndieGames.com.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-07  0 comments   
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Garry Schyman on the orchestral BioShock LP
Recognition of the BioShock orchestral score has led to the inclusion of a heavyweight vinyl LP in the BioShock 2 Special Edition Set. In this GameSetWatch interview, composer Garry Schyman describes how his music was intended to deliver an entirely new kind of sound to the in-game environment of Rapture, incorporating aleatoric music, early 20th century classical compositions and musique concrète.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-06  0 comments   
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Bear McCreary on the Dark Void Zero soundtrack
When Dark Void Zero was released on DSiWare last month Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary posted a blog entry on his chiptune soundtrack for the game. It includes multiple embedded samples of the music from the retro-styled Capcom title.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-07  0 comments   
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Silent Hill's Yamaoka joins Grasshopper Manufacture
Veteran Silent Hill composer and producer Akira Yamaoka has joined Goichi "Suda51" Suda's Grasshopper Manufacture studio. The news comes from the latest Famitsu magazine, reported by consumer site 1UP. According to the report, Yamaoka will start out composing music, beginning with an "action-horror" project also featuring the support of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, with EA Partners backing.
4 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-03  0 comments   
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Roald Strauss launches IndieGameMusic.com
Game composer Roald Strauss has created music library IndieGameMusic.com as a resource for indie developers on a tight budget to find music for their games. Prices are intended to be low compared to other music libraries, by making it an indie-to-indie meeting point.
4 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-03  0 comments   
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First video footage of Bit.Trip Runner
Gaijin Games has made available video footage of their upcoming WiiWare title Bit.Trip Runner. Two gameplay movies have been uploaded to IGN. The title will feature music by videogame-inspired band Anamanaguchi.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-05  0 comments   
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Alec Holowka shares music for Kyle Pulver's "Depict1"
Infinite Ammo's Alec Holowka, the composer of Aquaria Original Soundtrack, has released a four minute theme for Kyle Pulver's Global Game Jam entry "Depict1." The track has been made available on Bandcamp and can be downloaded for free.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-05  0 comments   
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Team Teamwork pulls Vinyl Fantasy VII due to copyright infringement claim
Predictably, Team Teamwork has pulled their Vinyl Fantasy VII album from Bandcamp due to concerns relating to copyright infringement. The album featured direct recordings of the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack and prominent musicians like Jay-Z. Tim Jacques, a graphic designer from the Boston area, received a notice of the claim from Bandcamp and decided to remove the album, having made close to $100 in donations.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-04  0 comments   
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Machinarium soundtrack receives vinyl LP
Tomas Dvorak's soundtrack to the adventure game Machinarium by Amanita Design will be receiving a vinyl edition on February 20 from Minority Records. 555 hand-numbered copies are being printed on clear yellow & black vinyl, all signed by the composer. Pre-orders are up on Minority Records.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-04  0 comments   
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Konami releases Rhyme Player
GameSetWatch reports Konami has released an original music-based title to the iPhone App Store, called Rhyme Player. As a stream of words scroll past the screen, the player taps them in time with the beat.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2010-02-06  0 comments   
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Game Sound Design Interviews Vance Dylan
This is the latest installment in the sound designer interviews. This month Vance Dylan is interviewed. Vance has worked on many Triple A game titles including Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Dragon Age: Origins.
2 votes  by george100  on 2010-02-03  0 comments   
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