Game Audio Dryspell

Almost all of our sources for Game Audio related news have dried up recently. Why? I can only blame GTA IV.

No Comments »Filed under: NewsPosted on May 1st, 2008

Silicon Knights to use Wwise for Too Human

Silicon Knights has anounced that it will use the audio middleware Wwise from Audiokinetic Inc. on their upcoming release Too Human.
You can find the whole story at Music4Games.

No Comments »Filed under: Middleware, NewsPosted on April 9th, 2008

CGW / GfW is Dead ::cries::

Gamepolitics.com has reported the death of Computer Gaming World / Games for Windows. I’ve been getting this magazine throughout my years. When I was in middle school it was one of the few magazines I had a subscription to. I even currently have a stack of issues in my studio for clients to peruse through. [...]

1 Comment »Filed under: NewsPosted on April 9th, 2008

Activision Settles Mono Debacle

Gamespot is reporting that Activision has finally found a way to settle out of court with the people that bought Guitar Hero III for the Wii. The problem, in case you missed it, was that the initial run of GHIII on the Wii was only outputting mono audio. Kind of a big mistake. Read more [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Audio, Music, NewsPosted on April 8th, 2008

GGDA Game Night Tommorrow

The Georgia Game Developers Association is having an open house of sorts tomorrow night, inviting both members and first-time guests to Computer ArenA in Roswell for beer and games from 6:30 until closing.
All members and guests will get a special $5 all night play pass, normally $5 an hour. There will be a [...]

2 Comments »Filed under: Event, Georgia, NewsPosted on April 7th, 2008

Georgia House Bill 1100 Passes Senate

So what does this mean for you? Georgia House Bill 1100 allows the available tax incentive for Film, Music, and Interactive Entertainment Projects to be increased from the previous 9%-12% to 20%-30%. Which is a pretty dramatic increase. This gives Georgia a better position to attract out of state companies to complete their productions [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Georgia, Legislation, NewsPosted on April 1st, 2008

PS3 Condemned 2 Sound Issues

Wired is reporting some sound issues with the new PS3 version of Condemned 2.
[Read at Wired]

No Comments »Filed under: News, PS3Posted on March 28th, 2008

Sound Wars: Asus vs. Creative

It seems that Creative has recently attacked the capabilities of new Asus sound cards in a sort of ploy to sway consumers away from picking possibly more capable sound cards. Read the details of this battle at TG Daily.

No Comments »Filed under: Audio, NewsPosted on March 27th, 2008