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  MAGFest 2016 Guest List Updates with Austin Wintory & Extra Credits

  November 11, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | 6 Comments Share this MAGFest 2016 Guest List Updates with Austin Wintory & Extra Credits

  

  MAGFest recently announced some additional guests to their upcoming 2016 event lineup. Banner Saga and Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate composer Austin Wintory will be joining the previously announced Grant Kirkhope as composer guests.

  @LadyLyndis @MAGFest No force will prevent me this time!

  — Austin Wintory (@awintory) November 10, 2015

  
  The Grammy-nominated and two-time BAFTA-winning composer has earned himself several credits in the past decade, both for the aforementioned games as well as Journey and Sunset, the former of which netted Austin two more BAFTA nominations and was met with immense critical and commercial success. His MAGFest guest announcement as been released alongside that of MAGFest-regulars, Extra Credits.

  MAGFest 2016 kicks off February 18-21st in National Harbor, Maryland and pre-registration tickets are currently $60 until November 30th when the price will increase. Considering the Gaylord and most surrounding hotels have completely sold out of rooms for the event, anyone wishing to attend should pre-register soon in case the event sells out.

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  Extra Credits Has A New Show On VGM Remixers

  May 30, 2014 | Michael Hoffmann | Comments Off on Extra Credits Has A New Show On VGM Remixers Share this Extra Credits Has A New Show On VGM Remixers

  

  The people behind the web series Extra Credits have started a new weekly video series titled Extra Remix. For those of you unfamiliar with Extra Credits, it’s a weekly show, narrated by Dan Floyd and written by James Portnow, that covers topics on how videogames are designed and how they can be improved. Over the past several years they’ve covered a wide range of topics including Free to Play Games, Combining Game Genres, Graphics vs Aesthetics, and many others.

  Starting back in April, the Extra Credits team has been adding new types of content to their weekly rotation, including Extra Remix, James Recommends, and the just recently announced Design Club. Extra Remix is focused on discussing and promoting the work of videogame remix artists. Host Dan Floyd introduces viewers to a new artist each week, giving some background information on the artist and playing some examples of their work. Each episode ends with a full remix track to showcase the artist’s abilities. So far they’ve dedicated episodes to artists like Big Giant Circles, Zircon, and CarboHydroM. They even dedicated an entire episode to the site Overclocked ReMix (seen below).

  It’s an interesting web series that highlights the work of some very talented remix artists. This is a great way to get introduced to some new music remixers, or to become more familiar with the people behind some of your favorite VGM remixes. A new episode of Extra Remix goes up every Tuesday. Be sure to check this web series out.

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