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Written by: Willy McCarter Edited By: Jake Basten Event: Dublin Games Festival Date: 24/11/18 The Event This weekend I had the immense pleasure of attending the inaugural debut launch of the Dublin Games Festival (DGF) which welcomed a mass gathering of 2000+ guests for one whole day. Having attended previous past events the UK, I...

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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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Review by Andrew Overfield Edited by Sam Hughes Artistic Director: Charles Hazlewood Composer(s): Various Venue: Leeds Town Hall On the 20th March, Andrew Overfield and Sam Hughes checked out the PLAY! concert; a series of classical pieces performed alongside classic and modern video game music, by the British Paraorchestra & Friends, conducted by Charles Hazlewood....

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Header Image © Spitfire Audio Review by Matthew Kilford Edited by Sam Hughes Price: Pre order £549 (RRP £699) Developer: Spitfire Audio Spitfire Audio & Air Studios     Spitfire Audio last night announced their new orchestral strings library Hans Zimmer Strings at the iconic Air Studios in Hampstead London. Tickets for the event went...

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Soundtrack Cologne (or STC for short) is an annual event celebrating and encouraging the creation of music and sound for visual media. Spanning several days, the conference includes talks and workshops with industry professionals, and each day of the conference is dedicated to a specific field of media (film, television, and video games). Last month,...

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Article by Katie Tarrant Edited by Sam Hughes Recently, some of The Sound Architect team attended the renowned Develop conference in Brighton. Throughout the 3 day event, thousands of people attend and scatter to all number of talks in the conference’s 7 tracks. We gave a post-conference summary of the Audio track HERE, and also...

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Twenty producers from the Richmond, Virginia area have collaborated on an album which breathes new life into the iconic melodies and warrior themes of Street Fighter II.   Street Fighter: The RVA Warrior ; is a 12 track album with proceeds going towards a charitable organisation that benefits public schools in the Richmond, Virginia area. The project organiser Alan...

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Introduction On Friday 28th April, for the second year running, The VoiceOver Network conducted their Get Your Game On event; an opportunity for voice actors, developers, producers, audio designers and much more to get together and mutually appreciate the art of voice over. Founded by Rachael Naylor, The VoiceOver Network is the go-to community for...

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Article by Katie Tarrant Edited by Alyx Jones This year I had the shock but absolute pleasure of being at GDC 2017. In December 2016, I applied for the King and Diversi scholarship which aims to take 10 women on an all-expenses and all-access trip to GDC and after a nerve-wracking application process, I was...

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