Fans of the Nintendo 64 classic The Legend of Zelda can relive the magic with a musical tribute themed around the beloved videogame release Majora’s Mask. The 79-track collection of newly arranged music, Fate: A Tribute to Majora’s Mask, is from Seattle-based Materia Collective. The Legend of Zelda debuted in 1986, and the 19 titles in the franchise have sold […]
Composer Jack Wall’s award-winning music from the blockbuster video games Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Black Ops III will be performed by the CSUN Media Composition and Studio Ensemble full orchestra at Soraya Great Hall, Valley Performing Arts Center on May 9, 2018. This unique […]
The open-world dinosaur survival-adventure game ARK: Survival Evolved comes to market sporting a epic orchestral score by Gareth Coker (Minecraft, Ori and the Blind Forest). The soundtrack will be released by game specialty label Sumthing Else Music Works in conjunction with Studio Wildcard on Aug. 29 via digital and streaming outlets worldwide. “Gareth’s mind-blowing sense of melody and uncanny expertise […]
The Lord of the Rings Online game commemorates its 10th anniversary with a HUGEsound Records commemorative soundtrack release, featuring the original music of Chance Thomas. Thomas, whose game scores include James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, packed 26-songs into the double-album release, drawing from his Lord of the Rings work over the past two decades. “Seeing […]
Sumthing Else Music Works, the music label formed by Nile Rodgers expressly to service game soundtracks, makes available the original score for Ubisoft’s Steep. The open-world multiplayer summit adventure features a post-rock instrumental score composed by Zikali, a European collective of music composition and sound design artists. “The musical artistic direction consists of the encounter between a post-rock […]
Takeshi Furukawa’s The Last Guardian soundtrack is coming to vinyl in Q1. In addition Sony is also making the score available via the Composer’s Choice PS4 Music App, featuring 19 tracks that are available at the PlayStation Store. The soundtrack app supports both stereo and surround playback, and also allows users to export all the tracks as stereo […]
The soundtrack to the Square Enix game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will be available on CD, digital and streaming services Dec. 2 from Sumthing Else Music Works, which comes to market the same day with the vinyl release for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The games are produced by Eidos-Montréal. Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s music was composed […]
2K pumps up the volume with DJ Snoopadelic and Park After Dark, a new feature for “NBA 2K17,”which leaped to the top of the charts since its release last month. While Imagine Dragons, Noah ’40’ Shebib and Grimes curated the in-game soundtrack for “NBA 2K17,” the artist also known as Snoop Dogg will spin a specially curated set for the […]
In a company workforce of about 8,500 employees, Steve Schnur and his team of eight stand out. While about sixty percent of those thousands are artists, sound technicians and coders who create the game experience for the dozen or so titles Electronic Arts releases each year, Schnur and his staff oversee music. That includes supervising the scores for […]
The “Gears of War 4” soundrack by Ramin Djawadi will be available Oct. 18 from Sumthing Else Music Works, a record label founded on releasing video game soundtracks by pop music impresario Nile Rodgers. Djawadi is currently touring in support of the soundtrack for HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” for which he’s become something of a media sensation. He’s […]
