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VR Sound Review: The Invisible Hours

by Tom Garner - 22/05/201823/05/2018 0531

Review by Tom Garner Edited by Katie Tarrant Developer: Tequila Works Publisher: Game Trust Lead Composter: Cris Velasco Audio Director: Steve Whetman As an unverified source online states, Agatha Christie once wrote that “everyone is a potential murder – in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill – though not the will

Animex 2018

by Alyx Jones - 21/05/2018 0411

Article by Alyx Jones The Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games takes place every year, bringing speakers and attendees from all over the world. This year the doors of Teesside Universiy open to the hundreds of guests waiting eagerly in the sunshine on a Monday morning for the week

Fear Effect Sedna Game Audio Review

by Kyle Worrall - 19/05/201819/05/2018 0474

Review by Kyle Worrall Edited by Katie Tarrant Developer: Sushee Publisher: Forever Entertainment/Square Enix LTD Lead Composer: Sébastien Poncelet Voiceover: Natalie Rogers, Julie Shields, Michael Osborne, Spencer Cannon & Matthew Curtis Reviewed on: Playstation 4 Introduction This month I entered the cel-shaded world of Fear Effect Sedna, the third game in the Fear Effect series. Fear Effect was a game originally

BAFTA To Honour Nolan North With Special Award

by Naila Malik - 14/05/201814/05/2018 0369

Nolan North will receive the Award on Monday 11th June in Los Angeles The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is to honour Nolan North with a Special Award at an event at The London West Hollywood on Monday 11 June. The event, which takes place on the eve of the

Composer David Housden Returns!

by Alyx Jones - 10/05/2018 0420

Last month Sam Hughes caught up with David Housden, after his recent work on The Lost Words, QUBE2 and more! David came to be one of the most promising young talents, after his work on the soundtrack for Thomas Was Alone. The game received a BAFTA nomination for Best Original Music and is

GDC 2018 – Audio Round Up!

by Sam Hughes - 04/05/2018 0715

Article by Matthew Miller Edited by Alyx Jones GDC 2018 has now come and gone. This year the conference celebrated a record attendance of 28,000 attendees at The Moscone Centre, San Francisco, across many disciplines, from programming to game design, but most importantly for us: audio! 2019 has already been announced, so

BAFTA Nominated Composer Olivier Derivière Scores DONTNOD Entertainment’s Vampyr

by Naila Malik - 04/05/2018 0354

Original Soundtrack Premieres Today on Bandcamp; Multi-platform digital soundtrack available June 5 Multi award-winner and BAFTA nominated composer Olivier Derivière (Get Even, Remember Me, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag - Freedom Cry) reunites with DONTNOD Entertainment, the studio behind Remember Me and Life Is Strange, to score Vampyr, a deeply immersive

BAFTA Games Masterclass – The Art of Storytelling through Music with Gareth Coker

by Alyx Jones - 03/05/2018 0422

Article by Alyx Jones A packed auditorium at BAFTA headquarters, saw Adele Cutting (Soundcuts) open the nights conversation with Gareth Coker by asking how he landed his job, working as the composer on Ori and the Blind Forest. Gareth says he actually had a profile on ModDB with some music, that

Doom VFR – VR Audio Review

by Tom Garner - 02/05/201827/04/2018 0651

Review by Tom Garner Edited by Alyx Jones Developer: Bethesda Game Studios Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Composer: Mick Gordon Audio Design: Ben Carney and Chad Mossholder Reviewed on: PC I fear I may start needing a disclaimer atop these reviews until I talk about a game that’s been designed specifically for VR, rather than games that are

EGX Rezzed 2018 – Game Audio Picks

by Alyx Jones - 01/05/201802/05/2018 0547

Review by Alyx Jones Another year of EGX Rezzed comes to a close as we reflect on some of our favourite indie games for use of audio. Tobacco Docks played host again to the smaller, indie friendly, eurogamer expo, with thousands coming to get their hands on the latest, in development