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LittleBigPlanet 2 was 10 last week! Boy does that make me feel oooooooold! To mark the anniversary, as with the first game, I thought it’d be fun to revisit the licensed soundtrack and put together a few playlists that feature some of the music we evaluated that didn’t make the […]
I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently giving GameSound.org some love after a couple of years of neglect. I’ve never been particularly good at keeping the articles bang up to date with any kind of regularity, but that hasn’t really mattered because the primary focus has always been for […]
Holy moly – today is the 10th anniversary of LittleBigPlanet coming out in the UK! Where on earth has the last decade gone?! Oh yeah… The launch of LBP is always a somewhat bittersweet memory – the game had gone gold and shipped out to retailers worldwide but was then delayed and subsequently recalled due to […]
Tethered is an immersive VR strategy game in which you take on the role of a god-like spirit tasked with looking after your flock of ‘Peeps’, the cute but simple-minded inhabitants of the beautiful, floating archipelagos that you gaze down upon from your lofty seat amongst the clouds. This disembodied third […]
It’s been so amazing to see people get excited by Knights And Bikes, and show their support and commitment by backing its Kickstarter campaign, that I felt compelled to make something which shows just how excited and passionate I am about it too! So, here’s a wee video I’ve put together […]
Using Wwise with Unity? Need doppler? You’re welcome! Those of you using Wwise with Unity may have noticed that there is no support for doppler shift. This is pretty mental given that Unity’s basic audio system offers doppler straight out of the box, so there’s obviously some kind of shenanigans […]
I was saddened to hear that Ralph Baer, creator of the first video game console, passed away yesterday. Baer was already 50 years old when the Magnavox Odyssey was released to the public in 1972, so I was somewhat surprised in 2009 to find that he was not only alive […]
Introducing a character can be a tricky business. This is especially true of those characters present throughout the gameplay experience – player characters, buddies, guides, narrators and their ilk. Game teams exposed to such characters over months and years of development become so familiar with them that evaluating their introduction, […]
GANG IESD co-chair Kenny Young speaks to Naughty Dog’s Phillip Kovats and Jonathan Lanier about the GANG award winning mix in The Last of Us. KY: Hi guys, thanks for agreeing to do this. Could you introduce yourselves for the record? PK: I’m Phil Kovats the audio lead here at […]
Tearaway is an adventure game exclusive to the Sony PlayStation Vita handheld system. The player is tasked with guiding their little paper messenger buddy on a mission to deliver the message that is trapped inside their envelope head by escaping the paper world and reaching the player out in the real […]
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