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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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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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Watch the BAFTA game awards live


March 19, 2010

Tonight’s the night for the GAME British Academy Video Award show, and you can watch the event live online right here at 8:45 PM GMT.


Creative Assembly’s ‘Empire: Total War’ – with music by Epic Sound – is nominated in the Best Strategy Game-category, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed!






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‘Empire: Total War’ wins at the Danish Game Awards


February 27, 2010

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)






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Danish Game Awards 2010 – live tomorrow at 8PM CET


February 25, 2010

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 :)





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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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‘Bullseye’ – with an Epic Sound


February 19, 2010

Check out the trailer for Zero Point Software’s ‘Bullseye’, with voices by Epic Sound. The game has been selected among the Best Indie Games by Gamasutra, and is nominated for a Danish Game Award.






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