We’ve been putting this off for a long time, aG is now closed. The bottom line is that we just didn’t have the time needed to turn this site into what we had envisioned, which turned into us not doing updates at all. It’s a slippery slope.
So, what does this mean? I firmly believe that you can’t just quit the internet, and although we weren’t able to keep aG going this time, who knows what the future will bring. aG will stay up in it’s current form until we can give it the solid reboot that it needs, or until someone else seems like they can handle it. It’s a good domain, and a great idea, and one day, maybe it’ll come back and reach its full potential.
For now, visit the links of our friends, click through our old posts, and comment away.
While digitizing their older content, the BBC discovered that they have the first recording of a computer playing music. The recording is a good 6 years before IBM had their mainframe play music at Bell Labs in 1957. Check the link to hear Ferranti Mark 1 computer play God Save the King, Baa Baa Black Sheep and In the Mood.
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has finally gotten around to signing off on the Act that started out as House Bill 1100. Bill Thompson, the Deputy Commissioner of the Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office, stated:
“The 2008 Entertainment Industry Investment Act? will return Georgia to its rightful place of prominence in all major entertainment industry segments.We expect a significant increase in film and television projects, and Georgia will be the most competitive state in the country for video game productions. Georgia is one of the few states whose entertainment incentives support the video game industry.”
Music4Games has posted up an interview with the founder of Gamesound Ltd., Rik Ede. I had the pleasure of seeing Rik talk about the future of surround sound while I was at GDC ‘07. The man is a surround sound guru who worked at Dolby for a while and not too long ago was Sony’s go to guy for everything surround on the PS3. Needless to say, Rik knows his stuff. Read the interview and soak up the goodness.
Imprint Online, the official student paper for the University of Waterloo, has an article featuring Dr. Karen Collins, a professor who has been studying the symbolic implications of sound, specifically in interactive situations.
Her work began by writing a PhD on the mechanical sounds used in Industrial Music, and now focuses more on how sound is used to manipulate the emotions of viewers.
Fabio73 over at Screw Attack has posted up the sound effects from resident Evil 4. Yep, all of em. It’s 3 zip files of .ogg format SFX, followed by several dialogue snippets. You can find them all here.
I?ll just start this off by saying, ?You can?t get a better deal than Orange Box.? If you didn?t know, the game Portal is part of the five game package that is Orange Box (other games included are Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & Episode 2, and also Team Fortress 2). Yeah, a lot of 2?s. Obviously this game audio review would be very extensive and more than likely lose your interest by the time we arrived at game three. So I am going to review the first game I played. …read full article…
Game Trailers managed to get Jonathan Davis from Korn to talk about their recent song for Haze, the upcoming game from Ubisoft. Check it out and gain a little insight from the nu-metal guru.
