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Tonight: The Empire score at the Ivor Novello awards


May 20, 2010

The Ivor Novello award winners are announced tonight, and Empire: Total War is nominated for Best Original Video Game Score. Not sure what the Ivors are? Here’s what the web site has to say about them:

The Ivors celebrate the outstanding writing achievements of songwriters, composers and their music publishers. The awards either celebrate artistic excellence in a specific work, exceptional performance figures in the award year or recognise the outstanding achievements of a particular songwriter or composer throughout their career.


No matter how things turn out, we’re really honoured to have worked on a production nominated for such an outstanding award – here’s to hoping!


See how everything pans out here.






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Help us pick the best tracks


May 15, 2010

We want to ensure that we have the best tracks up over at our Listening section, and we need your help. You can pause playback in the player to bring up the rating plugin – please stop by and rate your favourite tracks.


Click the thumbnail below to start rating – thanks in advance!








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News for May 2010


May 4, 2010

The latest news for May are now up – this month:


• ‘Empire: Total War’-soundtrack nominated for an Ivor Novello-award, honouring excellence in music composition


• Music for a new feature film is progressing well, with release scheduled for this summer


• Game audio lectures given at the Danish IT University


• More documentary voices recorded


• New audio books recorded for a host of publishers


Head over to the news page for the full overview.




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News for April 2010


April 1, 2010

The latest news for April are now up – this month:


• Music for a new feature film in the works


• Voices recorded for an upcoming documentary


• New game audio in progress


• Audio delivered for the Harvard Business School


• New audio books recorded for a host of publishers


Hop on over here for the full news.




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Empire: Total War wins at BAFTA Game awards


March 22, 2010

‘Empire: Total War’ – featuring music by Epic Sound – wins for Best Strategy Game at the BAFTA Game Awards!


This adds to its already impressive list of wins; a list which also includes:


IGN – Best Strategy Game of 2009, Gamasutra – Top 5 PC games of 2009, Develop Awards – Audio Excellence finalist, Metacritic Universal Acclaim,  Gamingheaven Heavenly Gold Award, IGN Editor’s Choice Award, PCFormat Gold Award, Gamespy Editor’s Choice Award and PCGAMER’s MUST BUY award, among others.


Scoring session for Empire: Total War

The picture above is from one of the scoring sessions for the game, and here’s the full list of the BAFTA Video Game Award winners, courtesy of Joystiq:


2010 BAFTA Video Game Awards Winners


Best Action Game
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Naughty Dog


Artistic Achievement
Flower, thatgamecompany


Best Game
Batman: Arkham Asylum, Rocksteady Studios


Best Family & Social Game
Wii Sports Resort, Nintendo


Best Gameplay
Batman: Arkham Asylum, Rocksteady Studios


Best Handheld Game
LittleBigPlanet PSP, SCE Cambridge / XDEV


Best Multiplayer Game
Left 4 Dead 2, Valve Software


Best Original Score
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Naughty Dog


Best Sports Game
FIFA 10, Electronic Arts


Best Strategy Game
Empire: Total War, Creative Assembly/SEGA


Best Story
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Naughty Dog


Best Use of Audio
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Naughty Dog


Best Use of Online
FIFA 10, Electronic Arts


GAME Award of 2009 (Best game as voted by public poll)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Infinity Ward




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News for March 2010


March 1, 2010

The news for March 2010 are now up – this month:


• Music for ‘Napoleon: Total War’


• New documentary voices recorded


• Game with an Epic Sound wins at the Danish Game Awards


• Audiobooks recorded for a host of publishers


• Voices recorded for an upcoming game



More on the news for March here



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Epic Sound on the music team for ‘Napoleon: Total War’!


February 26, 2010

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.


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‘Empire: Total War’ nominated for a BAFTA award


February 23, 2010

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:




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