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  Confirmed by Guiness: Runescape has the Most Music

  August 3, 2017 | Shawn Sackenheim | Comments Off on Confirmed by Guiness: Runescape has the Most Music Share this Confirmed by Guiness: Runescape has the Most Music

  

  Back in 2015 I asked Reddit and the OSV community which game has the most music? The very unscientific conclusion we landed on was Jagex’s 16-year-old MMO, Runescape. Today, we have relatively more scientific proof from the Guinness World Records organization to confirm that collective hunch.

  Among the stats that Stephen Daultrey, editor of Guinness World of Records: Gamers’ Edition presented to Jagex was the award for Runescape’s official music count. Including expansions Runescape holds the record for ‘Most original pieces of music in a video game’ with 1,198 tracks. Unfortunately, they didn’t add that up by minutes and seconds so the debate over what counts as the most music can still rage on.

  Outside of music, Runescape now holds several other illustrious and dubious new honors including:

  1. Most users of an MMO video game, which as of 25th July 2017 was 254,994,744
  2. Most prolifically updated MMORPG video game, at 1,014 updates.
  3. Most fish in a video game, with eight billion caught in 2012
  4. First MMO video game to release an ‘old school’ version

  Most video game-related forum posts per day, which was set in June 2013 when 27,000 posts were submitted every day.

• Miscellaneous, Music Production

  PopCap Layoffs Highlight the Difficulties of Game Audio Careers

  May 4, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on PopCap Layoffs Highlight the Difficulties of Game Audio Careers Share this PopCap Layoffs Highlight the Difficulties of Game Audio Careers

  

  Recently, PopCap Games announced a wave of layoffs at their Seattle development branch to “refocus on new titles and key projects”. There was no confirmation of how many where laid off or what departments saw the cut in staff, but at least one member of their audio team announced their position had been the victim of the downsizing.

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• Events, Miscellaneous

  “Games On Song” to Perform for GamesAid Christmas Fundraiser

  November 2, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on “Games On Song” to Perform for GamesAid Christmas Fundraiser Share this “Games On Song” to Perform for GamesAid Christmas Fundraiser

  

  Nobody wants to think about it too early, but the Christmas season is a month away. However, you can get in early for the Golden Giving event in London coming this December.

  Today, Games On Song, the UK games industry choir is proud to announce it will be returning to the stage for a LIVE Christmas carol concert, raising money for GamesAid.

  Formed in 2012, the Games On Song choir is made up members of the games industry who volunteer their time and voices to sing and raise money for GamesAid; a UK based video games charity which acts as an umbrella to support a number of smaller charities who help disadvantaged and disabled children and young people. – GamesAid

  So, the event won’t itself feature music from video games, but rather “classic carols and Christmas songs with a video game twist” sung by game industry members. What that twist is, exactly, remains to be seen, but it all goes to a great cause regardless and with members hailing from places like Bethesda, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and others.

  The event is being held December 16th in London, and tickets can be purchased via the Golden Giving website.

• Featured, Game Music, Indie Music

  The VGM Industry – Game Music, Composers & Fair Work

  October 2, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | 2 Comments Share this The VGM Industry – Game Music, Composers & Fair Work

  

  It’s often hard as one who simply appreciates game music and isn’t in the industry to really know what happens behind the scenes with regards to how game music composers and game musicians are treated. I would wager that a fair share of us are relatively ignorant as to the trials and tribulations that game music writers and composers face when trying to obtain and keep a steady flow of reasonable work, and what sacrifices need to be made.

  Recently the hashtag #PerformanceMatters appeared trending on Twitter in regards to the plight that video game voice actors face in the games industry in terms of fair work for fair wages and worker’s rights. The hashtag made the general gaming public aware of some of the poor conditions video game VAs face from some of the biggest names in voice acting and got people talking. It also started to raise questions about how other aspects of video games fare in terms of treatment of their respective “parts”. Internet and Youtube game reviewer John “Total Biscuit” Bain raised the question as to how video game composers might also be treated in the industry.

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