MCV Develop Awards 2020 - Audio Innovation of the Year Award
This month we were lucky enough to win the MCV Develop Audio Innovation of the Year 2020 award for our work on Total War: Three Kingdoms. Myself and Jon Raftery, our Lead Audio Programmer, had the honour of collecting the award on behalf of the audio team..... read more
Total War: Warhammer 2: Bringing the undead to life
A creaky door, a ghoulish groan, the unfathomable eldritch scream of a creature not meant for this world – what you hear plays an incredibly important part in how you experience games, and the Total War series is no exception.... read more
Behind The Audio - Total War: Three Kingdoms
One of the main challenges in creating the audio for strategy games, especially the Total War series, is in creating compelling soundscapes that not only set the mood, but also enhance the visual aesthetic and bring the world to life. All while remaining interesting and immersive to players, even after hundreds of.... read more
The Sound Of Total War: Warhammer 2
Earlier this month, our Audio Director, Richard Beddow was interviewed about our work on the upcoming Total War: Warhammer 2. In it he talks about what players can expect from the game, our approach to crafting the audio for it, and he also goes into some detail about.... read more
Forza Horizon 3 - Announcement
Forza Horizon 3, the game that I have been working on this past year, has been announced onstage during the Microsoft Xbox E3 2016 Press Conference. The game is an open world racer set against the backdrop of the Horizon festival in Australia and features races across a variety of terrain types in a multitude of.... read more
Europe Travels - Sound Effects Recording
Earlier this year I spent a month travelling around Western Europe in a motorhome with my fiance, and being the avid sound geek that I am I wanted to capture ambient sounds of some of the places that we visited along the way..... read more
Grid Autosport - Announcement
Grid Autosport, the latest entry in the Bafta award-winning Grid series has at long last been unveiled by Codemasters. It is due out in late June for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.I have spent the past year working with the vehicle audio team for this game and I am very happy with how everything has turned out..... read more