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Music is key to a game’s immersion factor, and that is a point Rich Vreeland drove home in his keynote address at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference. Vreeland is a freelance music composer, who’s been creating music for games for the last six years. Vreeland’s resume features titles like Bomberman …

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A third piece of downloadable content has been announced for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It’s called Dragonborn and will be released on December 4th. It will cost 1,600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live. A debut trailer can be seen below and suggests that the content will very much return …

GamesAid’s latest fundraising venture has been revealed – a UK games industry choir. The group will give its first performance at the GamesAid Christmas Concert, which takes place on Wednesday December 19th at St Stephen’s, Rosslyn Hill. Tickets cost 20 per adult and 10 for under 16s and are available …

Apple has announced some impressive numbers for its two newest iPad SKUs over the weekend. Combined sales of the iPad Mini and iPad 4 – both of which were launched across 34 countries last Friday – hit 3m units over the weekend. Apple went on to point out that when …

Freelance music composer Rich Vreeland, responsible for the stellar soundtrack of this year’s Indie success Fez, spoke about the importance of music in games during the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference in Pune. Having worked on Fez most recently, Vreeland frequently referenced the puzzle-platformer in his keynote address. Speaking about the …