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New London-based symposium series will explore the music of film, television, video games and virtual reality, with BASCA’s Vick Bain to keynote the inaugural event   Created by James Hannigan, award-winning composer and Game Music Connect co-founder, Screen Music Connect builds on the success of the sold-out game music conferences to celebrate the richly diverse...

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Takeshi Furukawa, Pieter Schlosser and Garry Schyman spearhead SoundTrack_Cologne’s Games Day this year with early bird registration now open   SoundTrack_Cologne returns with a star studded games program including guests Takeshi Furakawa (The Last Guardian), Pieter Schlosser (Destiny 2) and Garry Schyman (Bioshock). The composers will be talking about the characteristics of videogame scores, personal...

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Final Fantasy XV – A Game Audio Review Review by Andrew Overfield Edited by Sam Hughes Developer/Publisher: Square Enix Composer: Yoko Shimomura Sound Management: Kazuki Hamamoto, Shihoko Karube, Yuko Sakae, Ayako Tsuchlya Reviewed on: PS4   For 20 of the last near-on 30 years of it’s franchise’s life I’ve been a huge Final Fantasy fan. From spending a...

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Sam Hughes speaks to Co-founder and COO of Umlaut Audio. Umlaut Audio designs fully customizable software instruments and samples. Umlaut’s products are inspired by years of experience developing custom virtual instrument solutions and samples for many of the world’s most famous composers such as Harry Gregson Williams,Danny Elfman (1953- ) and John Debney. You can...

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Sam Hughes discusses the important of audio with BBC Radio 1 presenter, Julia Hardy at the BAFTA Games Awards 2016, they discuss the event and its nominees as well as Julia’s thoughts on game audio. Stay up to date with more of our interviews and support our Patreon if you love what we do at the...

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Sam Hughes chats to Audio Director, Justin Bell over at Obsidian about South Park: The Stick of Truth. They discuss all of the techniques and work involved in the project including some in-depth discussions of implementation, workflow and more! Justin graduated with an A.A. degree in Music from Los Angeles Valley College in 2004, and later...

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Sam Hughes speaks to Audio Director, Lydia Andrew about her career so far and her work on Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. Lydia is an Audio Director who has worked in game audio for 14 years and in the entertainment industry for nearly 20. She started her games career with Electronic Arts in the UK, working on a...

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Earlier this year, Sam Hughes caught up with Sound Designer, Andrew Lackey, about his work on Ori and the Blind Forest. They also discuss his previous work on amazing titles such as The Matrix Trilogy as well as the recent release, The Witness and more! Andrew is an award winning sound designer and audio director with over...

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  Alyx Jones chats with Leonard Paul, after a busy year, about how the School of Video Game Audio is going as well as his current work on the follow-up to Retro City Rampage, Shakedown Hawaii. Leonard is well known for his work on titles such as EA’s NBA Jam, NHL 11, Need for Speed: Hot...

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Sam Hughes speaks to Audio Director, Jack Grillo about the epic adventure release Rise of the Tomb Raider! Jack has been working as a Sound Designer for the past 20 years, with experience in film, television, commercials, and video games. Early in his video game career, Jack worked as Audio Lead and Audio Director for the...

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