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Opvallend veel voetbalgames (American Football eigenlijk) bij de submissions van Fuck This Jam. Gamedesigners zijn blijkbaar geen grote fans van lichamelijke beweging. Veel parodieën ook, waarbij Dear Estaban een eervolle vermelding verdient. Maar ook veel serieuze pogingen om binnen een gehaat genre een leuke game te maken. Meer dan 130 games werden ingeleverd voor het … Read More ...

Ja we weten heus wel dat Monkube een Belgische studio is, maar we vinden Monkube leuk en ze spreken prima Nederlands daar, dus we nemen hun nieuwe game The Adventures of Retrobot graag mee in Uit Nu! Net als bij hun debuutgame 6th Planet komt deze game ook nu weer met een uitgebreide comic die … Read More ...

Op 30 november organiseert de CMD opleiding van de NHL Hogeschool in Gameship in Leeuwarden de ‘Spawn Here’ conferentie. Een kleinschalig evenement waar studenten en industrie elkaar ontmoeten. Studenten krijgen de kans hun werk te tonen aan potentiële opdracht-, en werkgevers door middel van een showcase. Professionals krijgen zo de kans om jong talent te spotten en kennis te maken met … Read More ...

Lees nu het complete tijdschrift online. Met artikelen over de ontwikkeling van Awesomenauts, Craft Mechatronica, Gluddle, Munch Time, Fingle, Lost in Time, Nuclear Dawn, Yeti Hunter, Oorkania, de Ontdekker, Man Bijt Hond: Woordentikkertje en MediaMasters. De coverafbeelding is dit keer gemaakt door Richard Boeser van Sparpweed. Control 32 Klik hier voor de iPad-vriendelijke webversie & … Read More ...

Plots was daar het mailtje van Marnix van den Berg van de studio TVNDRA uit Ridderkerk. “Apetrots ben ik op ons eerste spel Help Volty, wat zojuist is gelanceerd in de App Store! Het is een puzzel-avontuur op de iPad en de reacties van de eerste echte gebruikers zijn laaiend enthousiast.” Weer zo iemand die een … Read More ...

Joe Danger is een succes, zowel kritisch — met een Metacritic-score van 88 — als commercieel. In de eerste week verkocht de kleine indie-studio 50 duizend exemplaren op PSN — op de eerste dág was het team al uit de kosten. Sean Murray van Joe Danger-developer Hello Games vertelt hoe ze dat is gelukt tijdens … Read More ...

Ter gelegenheid van het 5-jarig bestaan van de Dutch Game Awards vroegen wij componist Bart Delissen het officiële thema — het anthem – te schrijven. Delissen, overigens zelf genomineerd met zijn muziek voor Kids vs Goblins, schreef de muziek in twee uur tijd tijdens de liveshow Control Gamelab. Luister en huiver:

Herinneringen worden opgeroepen door beelden, door geuren en door… geluid. Met dat laatste in het achterhoofd ontwikkelde een trio Nederlandse studio’s met steun van het Gamefonds het spel Remembering. Zoals we gewend zijn van de games van Monobanda (denk aan Bohm en Licht op Hout) bevat het spel ook dit keer geen plot of helder gameplay-doel. … Read More ...

Geweld hoort niet binnen een relatie, daar is iedereen het wel over eens. Toch? Nou — niet helemaal, zo ontdekte Coventry University (UK) tijdens een inventarisatie naar dating geweld onder jongeren. Verschillende respondenten vonden — na grondig doorvragen — geweld soms wél acceptabel. Tijdens Games for Health Europe sprak Matt Mawer van Coventry University over het CAVA … Read More ...

Rex Rooster (niet te verwarren met Rex Kramer) is de trotse haan van het kippenhok. Zijn chickies adoreren hem en hij doet wat hanen het best doen, namelijk haantje zijn. Op een dag breken vijanden door het hek en vallen de onschuldige kippetjes aan. Aan Rex de nobele taak om de indringers te verdrijven met … Read More ...

For those of you who happen not to know Chance Thomas from the side which is of most interest to us, namely composing music for video games, some catching-up is in order. He is an author who speaks of his music with genuine enthusiasm and passion, which, contrary to what one might think, is not the norm in the industry. A lion's share of his work lies in music for the MMO

Whilst examining the phenomenon of the Journey Original Soundtrack, one might ask themselves whether it was not the game's nature that contributed to such a success of the album. The game virtually lacks any other narration apart from music – does this not set the composer free of all the boundaries characteristic of interactive entertainment? Indeed,

Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman will be feted with BMI’s Richard Kirk Award for career achievement at the performance rights organization’s Film & Television Awards on May 19.

Portman will be the first woman to be honored with the award since the org started giving it out 25 years ago. In 1996, Portman established another precedent as the first woman to win an Oscar for original score for Emma. She also was nominated by the Academy for her music in The Cider House Rules (1999) and Chocolat (2000). Her other credits include Nicholas Nickleby, The Joy Luck Club and The Manchurian Candidate plus such TV pics as HBO’s Grey Gardens.

Portman joins such previous Kirk Award honorees as John Williams, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Danny Elfman, Alan Menken and Mike Post.

Additionally, New Orleans musician-composer Terence Blanchard will receive BMI’s Classic Contribution Award for his efforts in music education.

Event, hosted by BMI president/chief operating officer Del Bryant and VP of film/TV relations Doreen Ringer Ross, will be held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. – Christopher Morris

Source: Variety

Via TheWrap.com on Emmy Awards rule changes:

…in a crushing blow to theme song geeks, the Academy is getting rid of the main title them category. Somewhere, Danny Elfman is pissed.

Effective for the 2010-2011 awards year, the Main Title Theme category will be eliminated and replaced with a new category,

This one loomed over the collective film music nerdom like a humming behemoth from space, but La-La Land has finally announced they are releasing a whopping 5,000 copies of David Arnold’s sci-fi action score for (am-I-the-only-person-who-notices-how-shitty-this-movie-is?) Independence Day as a 2-CD set, effectively more than doubling the original album (hurriedly issued by RCA Victor back in 1996, when I still had hope for the future). The cat was essentially out of the bag thanks to Mr. Arnold, who in the middle of sending out a barrage of nonsensical messages into the Twitterverse, revealed La-La’s master plan. Faster than a virus can be uploaded from a Mac to an alien spaceship, word spread and mouths foamed.

As if releasing one calamitous blockbuster score on the same day wasn’t enough, the La-La-lers have also announced they are re-issuing in complete stereo John Williams’ The Poseidon Adventure. You may remember that Film Score Monthly first issued this title (thought not entirely in stereo sound) which quickly sold out. If you were angling for one on eBay, put a stop on that PayPal transfer and order up what is promised to be a glossed up edition. Read on for the blurbage…

In association with Twentieth Century Fox and Sony Music’s Custom Marketing Group, La-La Land Records presents the world premiere release of David Arnold’s complete score from the 1996 Twentieth Century Fox sci-fi blockbuster motion picture Independence Day, starring Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Bill Pullman and Randy Quaid, directed by Roland Emmerich. Arnold’s epic, sweeping orchestral score sends the listener, along with the film’s large scale sci-fi action and broad human drama, into the cinematic stratosphere. Produced by Nick Redman & Mike Matessino and Didier C. Deutsch, edited and assembled by Mike Matessino, and mastered by Mark G. Wilder and Maria Triana, this 2 CD Limited Edition set features over two full hours of astounding film music, (with more than 70 minutes of previously unreleased material) including the complete score, along with a generous helping of Bonus Tracks. In-depth liner notes by Dan Goldwasser features comments from the composer, co-writer/producer Dean Devlin and others. This is a limited edition of 5000 Units.

First time entire score is presented in STEREO! Presenting the premiere stereo release of John Williams’ classic score to the legendary 1972 Twentieth Century Fox adventure film The Poseidon Adventure, starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelly Winters and Red Buttons, produced by Irwin Allen and directed by Ronald Neame. Williams’ epic orchestral score expertly intertwines the film’s examination of heroism and tragedy. Produced by Nick Redman and Mike Matessino, mastered by Daniel Hersch, and remixed and sequenced by Mike Matessino, this superb-sounding special limited edition release features never-before-released Bonus Tracks, including the film versions of “The Morning After”, source cues and alternate versions of the main title. In-depth liner notes by Jeff Bond take you behind the scenes of the film and its music. This is a limited edition of 3000 Units.

For this release, the 2″ 24-track tape containing the original 35mm 6-track mag was transferred into Pro Tools, and restored and mixed with the advantages of another decade’s advance in sound processing technology.

For ordering info: lalalandrecords.com.

Composer Christopher Lennertz forwarded me this note about an exciting project for a worthy cause. Head over to Facebook and join the Hollywood Helping Haiti group for further details.

A Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project

Many of the worlds top composers are coming together to write and record a new symphonic work that will be available on both CD and DVD to music lovers around the world. All proceeds from this project will go to Hands Together in order to help the people of Haiti. The recording will take place in May of 2010 in Los Angeles and will be available this summer.

Composers lending their talents include:

Hans Zimmer
Dave Grusin
Marvin Hamlisch
John Debney
Christopher Young
Mark Isham
Brian Tyler
Tyler Bates
Theodore Shapiro
Christoph Beck
Christopher Lennertz
Don Davis
Bruce Broughton
George S. Clinton
Ed Shearmur
Alex Wurman
Deborah Lurie
David Kitay
John Swihart
Timothy Michael Wynn
Michael Wandmacher

and others…

New York Magazine wonders where the trailers and promos for Warner Bros. upcoming comic-book adaptation Jonah Hex are. Detailing the troubled production, they focus almost entirely on the situation surrounding the music. Director Jimmy Hayward ported his Horton Hears a Who! composer John Powell over to Hex, to collaborate with heavy metallers Mastodon.

“The band had been brought in by Hayward to collaborate on the score with Horton’s composer John Powell back in September 2009. However, the re-shoots and subsequent reediting meant Powell, who was already booked for Tom Cruise’s Knight and Day and Doug Liman’s Valerie Plame pic Fair Game, had to leave. “There was no animosity,” says Hinds. “He was just like, ‘If you haven

Matthew Vaughn’s profane and violence-loaded comic-book adaptation Kick-Ass is all out of bubble-gum on April 16th, when it takes names at the North American box office. Accompanying Vaughn’s indie-geek-cred visuals is an original score with contributions from no less than four composers (John Murphy, Henry Jackman, Marius De Vries, Ilan Eshkeri–who scored Vaughn’s Layer Cake and Stardust), and an additional cue from Danny Elfman (“Walk To Rasul’s”)! There’s a mix of classical, contemporary pop-punk, electronic, and standard ballads (Elvis singing “Battle Hymn of The Republic”!). The soundtrack album, while featuring exactly no score material, is fairly comprehensive. 14 of the songs that appear in the film are included and are available digitally on iTunes (from Polydor) and on CD at Amazon.com from Phantasm Imports.

Cinemusic presents the complete song listing from the film:

“Walk To Rasul’s”
Composed By: Danny Elfman
Courtesy of Morte Pharmaceutical

“Stand Up”
Performed by The Prodigy
(Liam Howlett /Manfred Mann/Peter Thomas)

“Can’t Go Back”
Performed by Primal Scream
(Bobby Gillespie/Andrew Innes/Martin Duffy/Gary Mounfield)

“There’s A Pot Brewing”
Performed by The Little Ones
(Lee LaDoucuer/Gregory Meyer/Ian Moreno/Brian Reyes/Edward Nolan Reyes)

“The Barber of Seville Overture”
(Gioachino Rossini)
Performed by the Zagreb Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Michael Halasz

“Omen”
Performed by The Prodigy
(Liam Howlett/Tim Hutton/Keith Andrew Palmer)

“Bongo Song”
Performed by Zongamin
(Sasumi Mukai)

“(Banana Splits) Tra La La Song”
Performed by The Dickies’
(Mark Barkan/Ritchie Adams)

“Chi mai del mio provo piacer pie dolce! [Act 2] Idomeneo”
Performed by Wiener Philharmoniker
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Conducted by Sir John Pritchard

“Starry Eyed”
Performed by Ellie Goulding
(Ellie Goulding/Jonny Lattimer)

“This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us”
Performed by Sparks
(Ronald Mael)

“Crazy”
Performed by Gnarls Barkley
(Brian Burton/Thomas Callaway/Gianfranco Reveberi/Gian Pero Reverberi)

“We’re All In Love”
Performed by New York Dolls
(David Johansen/Sami Takamaki/Steven Conte/Sylvain Mizrahi/Brian Delaney/Brian Koonin)

“Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu”
Composed by Ennio Morricone
(Ennio Morricone)
(from