Destructoid takes an in-depth look at the audio for ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2′ along with DICE Audio Director Stefan Strandberg and David Mollerstedt, Head of Audio at DICE.
The game is out for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 2nd in North America and March 5th in Europe.
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The winners are in from the Danish Game Awards held yesterday – and ‘Empire: Total War’ won the award for Strategy Game of the Year, adding to its already impressive roster of awards.
Here’s the full award list – congrats to all the winners and nominees:
Game Of The Year:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Infinity Ward
Sports Game Of The Year:
FIFA 10 – EA Canada
Racing Game Of The Year:
Need for Speed: Shift – Slightly Mad Studios
Platform Game Of The Year:
New Super Mario Bros. Wii – Nintendo
Strategy Game Of The Year:
Empire: Total War – The Creative Assembly
Social Game Of The Year:
Wii Sports Resort – Nintendo
Open Category:
Dragon Age: Origins – BioWare
Action Game Of The Year:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Infinity Ward
The Critics’ Award:
Batman: Arkham Asylum – Rocksteady Studios
Danish Talent Of The Year:
Press Play for Max and the Magic Marker
Danish Initiative Of The Year:
Ungdomsringen
Danish Game Of The Year:
Mini Ninjas – IO Interactive
(via Gamesection.dk)
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact game audio awards, Danish Game Awards, empire total war, Epic Sound, game development — The cat’s out of the bag: ‘Napoleon: Total War’ is out today, with Epic Sound’s Simon Ravn on the music team – and reviews for the music have been fantastic!
Check out the launch trailer below, and click here if you want to get in touch with Simon.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact Epic Sound Epic Sound, game audio, music, napoleon total war, reviews, score, simon ravn, soundtrack — The Danish Game Awards 2010 – the first official game award show in Denmark – will be held tomorrow at 8PM CET in Copenhagen.
We’ve worked on a couple of the productions nominated at the event: Creative Assembly’s ‘Empire: Total War’ and Zero Point Software’s ‘Bullseye’.
Space at the venue is somewhat limited, but the organizers have arranged for a live webcast of the whole event.
Stop by http://webstream.dk/dga10/ Friday 26th at 8PM CET for live coverage from the show.
Oh, and we should also have a great new announcement coming up tomorrow, so stop by for the latest news 
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact game audio awards, bullseye, creative assembly, Danish Game Awards, empire total war, game development, zero point software — Great talks & examples by John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence Parsons and Bobby McFerrin on music and how it affects us – from the World Science Festival.
Part One:
World Science Festival 2009: Notes & Neurons, Part 1 of 5 from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Part Two:
World Science Festival 2009: Notes & Neurons, Part 2 of 5 from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact sound research interview, music — The critically acclaimed ‘Empire: Total War’ from Creative Assembly – and with Epic Sound on the music team – has been nominated for a BAFTA Best Strategy Game Award. We’re keeping our fingers crossed! It also entered the Top Ten list of Best-Selling PC games in the US for 2009.
Check out the BAFTA nominees here.
Here’s the trailer for the game:
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact Epic Sound,game audio awards, bafta, creative assembly, empire total war, Epic Sound, music, trailer — What does the future hold for video gaming? Creative thinker Jesse Schnell held an engaging talk at the DICE 2010 Summit, looking at current and future trends. Definitely food for thought.
You can watch his full talk below:
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Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact niceties DICE 2010, game development, trends, video — George Spanos over at Gamesounddesign.com has a good post on why video game localization is important.
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