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 [...]
The Dark Sector Audio Dev team is back, this time with video. The video features some great comparisons of recorded vegetable beating to in-game carnage.
Wayne Santos recently wrote an article for HighDefDigest about 4 games that excel at creating an interactive and dynamic environment through the use of audio….
Bloody-Disgusting.com isn’t exactly the first place I go to to find breaking gaming news, it’s not even in my top ten….ok, so I’ve never even heard of them! But that doesn’t matter, because they just managed to get their gore-stained mitts on a very informative, very exclusive blog post from the Lead Sound Designer of [...]
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is coming out soon and I think everyone has pretty high hopes for it. It’s been a long time since those days of playing a dark one in KOTOR. Aside from the obvious qualities SW:TFU will have, we’ll also be able to look forward to some great orchestration. Music4Games recently [...]
AnimusSonitus over at the Stargate Worlds Developer Blog wrote up a small post about how the general public perceives sound design in games, and how to try and rectify the situation. The way he speaks about it makes me believe that there’s going to be a lot of exceptional audio concepts floating around their offices, [...]
NPR has an excellent piece on the evolution of game music, spurred by the latest fascination of hearing it played by live orchestras.
You can hear the 12 minute piece in it’s entirety here.
The guys over at XBOX360 Fanboy have reported that the upcoming Incredible Hulk game will feature the voices of the actors from the new movie, including Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson and William Hurt.
[Full Article at XBOX360FanBoy]
