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Halo fans may have another item to add to their holiday wishlist - the Halo Trilogy - The Complete Original Soundtracks boxed set. Sumthing Else Music Works’ has just announced that the five disc release, which also comes with four tracks from Halo Wars will be available both in stores… Continue Reading »

Those looking forward to the release of Epic Games’ highly anticipated sequel Gears of War 2 for the Xbox 360, on November 7, 2008, may be pleased to hear that the game’s official soundtrack will be getting a release of its own come November 25, 2008. The Gears of War… Continue Reading »

Atlus has just announced that all three RPGs released by the company this holiday season will come with soundtrack CDs and have artbook preorder bonuses. Atlus had previously that soundtracks would accompany Eternal Poison, Luminous Arc 2 and Persona 4, and now has decided to offer 60-100 page art books… Continue Reading »

Title: Video Games Live: Volume One Price: $16.98 ($0.99 per song download) Release Date: July 22, 2008 Publisher: EMI Records Ltd. (Angel Records) Pros: An excellent collections of impressive performances. Often well-orchestrated collections and homages to game music with an honest air of respectability that even non-gamers can appreciate. The… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: Video Games Live: Volume One CD art

EA Games has just announced the track list and artists whose music will appear in the background of The Sims 2 Apartment Life. Its a interesting mix of stars from around the world, with talent like Good Charlotte, Katy Perry, Wainwright, Vanilla Sky, Ranetki Girls, Jem, Lola and Gabriella Cilmi… Continue Reading »

For those of you still playing Rock Band, Harmonix has announced that The Cars’ 1978 album will be available for download for the PS3 (May 29, 2008) and Xbox 360 (May 27, 2008). Each downloadable song will set you back $1.99 or $14.99 for all nine tunes in the Playstation… Continue Reading »

Round-robin stories are common in writing classes and schools as a writing exercise which builds a story everyone has contributed to. It’s a fun way to join together as a community and bond. Atlus has decided that it would also be the perfect form for its Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes… Continue Reading »

In this dual interview, Chistopher interviews Burning Man Studios two composers, Nathan Pinard and Eike Steffe. Find out how two professional composers living in different countries manage make beautiful videogame music together… Click through to download an exclusive MP3 (“Arkady”) from the game! Continue Reading »

One of the problems in game design that I find is, that production has a lot of surprises, and I hate surprises. Thankfully, when it has come to our music and sounds, the work has been consistently outstanding. I count Burning Man Studios very lucky to have found some amazing… Continue Reading »

As part of Gamertell’s exclusive look at the music behind FIFA Street 3, we received an early version of the game’s soundtrack to review. Die hard fans of groove music and football (not the American kind) will be mightily pleased with EA Canada’s new entry into the FIFA Street series.… Continue Reading »