Further hyping the upcoming Alone in the Dark game, Atari and Milan Records today announced their collaboration to release the soundtrack for the horror game on May 24. The score was composed by Olivier Deriveire and performed by world famous, Grammy Award-winning choir The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices.
“For its first release of a video game soundtrack, Milan Records is very proud to be associated with such a classic series as Alone in the Dark,” said Nick Bobetsky, VP Sales and Marketing, MILAN RECORDS. “This is an original and powerful soundtrack, which goes beyond what you would normally expect in a video game.”
The game itself will ship to stores on June 20 and June 24 in Europe and North America, respectively, for PS2, Wii, PC and Xbox 360; the PS3 version will be released sometime later this year. Below is the full track listing for the soundtrack:
- Prelude to an End
- Edward Carnby
- The Fissure
- Collapsing Floors
- The Façade
- Reception Hall
- The Humanz
- Who Am I?
- Central Park
- Crying NY
- Loneliness
- Bethesda Fight
- Killing The Fissure
- No More Humans
- Truth
- Niamam
- The Light Carrier Test
- Shto Li (A cappella)
- The Final Gate
- The Choice
- An End for a Prelude
Quite a few new songs have been available on both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network for Guitar Hero 3 since last week. The first batch of new songs is “No More Sorrow” by Linkin Park, “Pretty Handsome Awkward” by The Used and “Sleeping Giant” by Mastodon. The songs are available as a track pack for 500 Microsoft points ($6.25); there is also a free track - a cover of “We Three Kings” by Steve Ouimette.
There are also three individually released tracks - Extremoduro’s “So Payaso”, Trust’s “Antisocial” and Die Fantastischen Vier’s “Ernten Was Wir S?en” - that are selling for 200 points ($2.5) each.
The official playlist for Burnout Paradise was announced by EA earlier this week. The music features in the game includes tracks from artists such as Alice in Chain, Soundgarden, Guns n’ Roses, Killswitch Engage and Senses Fail, among many others. Here’s the full list:
*Winner of the second international Burnout Bandslam competition.
- Adam And The Ants, “Stand And Deliver”
- Agent Blue, “Snowhill”
- Airbourne, “Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast”
- Alice In Chains, “Would?”
- Army Of Me, “Going Through Changes”
- Avril Lavigne, “Girlfriend”
- B’z, “FRICTION”
- Brain Failure feat. Dicky Barrett, “Coming Down To Beijing”
- Brand New , “The Archers Bows Have Broken”
- Bromheads Jacket, “Fight Music For The Fight”
- Depeche Mode, “Route 66 (Beatmasters Mix)”
- Faith No More, “Epic”
- Guns N’ Roses, “Paradise City”
- Innerpartysystem, H”eart Of Fire”
- Jane’s Addiction, “Stop!”
- Jimmy Eat World, “Electable (Give It Up)”
- Junkie XL feat. Lauren Rocket, “Cities In Dust”
- Jupiter One, “Fire Away”
- Kerli, “Creepshow”
- Killswitch Engage, “My Curse”
- LCD Soundsystem, “Us V. Them”
- Make Good Your Escape, “Beautiful Ruin”
- Maxeen, “Block Out The World”
- Mexicolas, “Come Clean”
- N.E.R.D., “Rockstar (Jason Nevins Mix)”
- Never Heard Of It*, “Finger On The Trigger”
- Operator, “Nothing To Lose”
- Permanent ME, “Until You Leave”
- Saosin, “Collapse”
- Seether, “Fake It”
- Senses Fail, “Calling All Cars”
- Showing Off To Thieves*, “Everyone Has Their Secrets”
- Skybombers, “It Goes Off”
- Soundgarden, “Rusty Cage”
- Sugarcult, “Dead Living”
- Swervedriver, “Duel”
- The Photo Atlas, “Red Orange Yellow”
- The Pigeon Detectives, “I’m Not Sorry”
- The Styles, “Glitter Hits (J.J. Puig Mix)”
- Twisted Sister, “I Wanna Rock”
Burnout Paradise is due out on January 25, 2008 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. A playable demo of the game is already available on the online networks of aforementioned consoles.
New tracks for Rock Band are now available for the game via Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network for their specific platforms. The three new tracks are The Clash’s “I Fought the Law,” “Rockaway Beach” by Ramones, and a cover of Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen in Love”.
They are bundled together for 400 MS points ($5.50), while each song can be purchased separately for 160 MS points ($2).
Not much is known about Sony Japan’s Afrika, which was only shown at E3 2006 and the Tokyo Game Show through short trailers. However, the game is still in major development, as Sony recently picked Los Angeles-based composer Wataru Hokoyama to compose the game’s score, according to this 1UP report.
This was learned through a local Los Angeles musicians’ newsletter. His past credits include the role-playing game movie adaptation Dungeons & Dragons back in 2000.
German metal outfit Blind Guardin has announced that it is composing a special song for Sacred 2, the upcoming sequel to the action-RPG by Ascaron Entertainment; the band will also make an in-game appearance. The song will be released as a separate single next year, with the music video featuring sequences taken straight from the game itself. Additionally, players can solve a quest in the game, which will unlock a bonus event where the motion-captured band performs their new song “live”.
Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel is the sequel to the most successful German RPG of all time. The game will feature two entirely different ways of playing - the light and shadow campaigns. The official website carries more information and media on the title.
Renowned game composer Jesper Kyd has composed the “dark and distorted” soundtrack for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, an upcoming co-op action game from IO Interactive, the creators of the Hitman series. The game will be available next month for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Valve’s upcoming Orange Box will feature music from programmer-turned-musician Jonathan Coulton when it’s released later this week. He has composed a single which will be included in the title. He is known for his rendition of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” as well as many of his original geek-friendly compositions.
“I am delighted the Valve design team selected me to help make the surprise single a success,” he said. “If it’s not every geek’s dream to be immortalized in a video game, it was mine.”
The full soundtrack for Need for Speed: ProStreet has been unveiled by EA. The racing game will feature over 35 songs from artists representing a wide variety of styles, along with an original score provided by Junkie XL. Here’s the full list:
- Airbourne - Blackjack
- Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy
- Bloc Party - Player (Does It Offend You, Yeah? Remix)
- Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Guns ‘N Bombs Remix
- Clutch - Power Player
- CSS - Odio Odio Odio Sorry C
- Datarock - I Used To Dance With My Daddy (Karma Harvest Mix)
- Digitalism - Pogo
- Dude ‘N Nem - Watch My Feet
- DUNE - A Blast Blast
- Foreign Islands - We Know You Know It
- Junkie XL feat. Lauren Rocket - More (Junk O Flamenco Remix)
- Junkie XL feat. Lauren Rocket - More (Junk O Rock Remix)
- Junkie XL feat. Lauren Rocket - More (Junk O Rock Remix)
- Junkie XL feat. Lauren Rocket - More
- Klaxons - Atlantis To Interzone
- MSTRKRFT - Neon Knights
- Neon Plastix - On Fire
- Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her (Tommie Sunshine’s Brooklyn Fire Retouch)
- Plan B - More Is Enough feat. Epic Man
- Plan B - No Good (Chase & Status and Benni G Remix)
- Smallwhitelight - Spite
- The Faint - Dropkick The Punks
- The Horrors - Draw Japan
- The Rapture - The Sound
- The Toxic Avenger - Escape (Bloody Beetroots Remix)
- TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
- UNKLE - Restless feat. Josh Homme
- We Are Wolves - Fight And Kiss
- Wiley - Bow E3
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Kiss Kiss
- Year Long Disaster - Leda Atomica
- Yelle - A Cause Des Garcons (Riot In Belgium Remix)
As the game nears release, Flagship Studios sent out word that renowned video game composers Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan have created the original soundtrack for Hellgate: London. It will be available within the game’s collector’s edition, which will be released alongside the standard edition on October 31.
The full FIFA 08 soundtrack has been announced. This time around, the game will feature over 50 artists representing 27 countries. FIFA 08 marks the debut of new artists like The Hoosiers (UK), Babamars (France), Bodyrox (UK) and Santogold (USA).
So, without further ado, here’s the full list:
- !!! - All My Heroes Are Weirdos
- Apartment - Fall Into Place
- Art Brut Direct Hit - It’s A Bit Complicated
- Aterciopelados Paces - Oye
- Babamars - The Core
- Bodyrox feat. Luciana - What Planet You On?
- Bonde do Role - Solta O Frango
- CAMP - From Extremely Far Away
- Carpark North - Human
- CeU - Malemolencia
- Cheb i Sebbah - Toura Toura: Nav Deep Remix
- CSS - Off The Hook
- Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa
- Digitalism - Pogo
- Disco Esemble - We Might Fall Apart
- Dover - Do Ya
- Heroes & Zeroes - Into The Light
- Ivy Queen - Que Lloren
- Junkie XL - Clash
- Jupiter One - Unglued
- Kenna - Out of Control (State of Emotion)
- K-Os - Born To Run
- La Rocca - Sketches (20 Something Life)
- Lukas Kasha - Love Abuse
- Madness feat. Sway and Baby Blue - I’m Sorry
- Maximo Park - The Unshockable
- Melody Club - Fever Fever
- Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS) - El Microfono
- Modeselektor feat. Sasha Perera - Silikon
- Hello Mom! - Germany
- Noisettes - Don’t Give Up
- Pacha Massive - Don’t Let Go
- Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
- Planet Funk - Static
- Robyn Bum Like You
- Rocky Dawuni - Wake Up The Town
- Santogold - You Will Find A Way
- Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
- Superbus - Butterfly
- Switches - Drama Queen
- The Automatic Automatic - Monster
- The Cat Empire - Sly
- The Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr. A
- The Hours - Ali In The Jungle
- The Tellers - More
- Tigarah - Culture, Color, Money, Beauty
- Travis - Closer
- Tumi And The Volume - Afrique
- Vassy - Wanna Fly
- Wir Sind Helden - Endlich Ein Grund Zur Panik
- Yonderboi - Were You Thinking Of Me?
Harmonix, MTV Games and Rhino Entertainment have announced that music by legendary band Grateful Dead will appear in Rock Band. The iconic group is making 18 master recordings available as digitally distributed levels following the game’s release this Holiday season. Some of the songs include classic tracks like “Uncle John’s Band”, “Touch of Grey” and “Sugar Magnolia.”
“Grateful Dead’s unique fusion of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, and jazz challenged traditional musical boundaries and pushed the limits of creativity to produce a signature sound that is undeniably their own,” stated Paul DeGooyer, MTV’s Senior Vice President of Audio, Home Video and Electronic Games. “With an enormous legion of fans all over the world, Rock Band will give players a chance to interact with the music of these beloved rock pioneers and experience what Grateful Dead did best - jam from the depths of their souls.”
“Grateful Dead, with their 30 year career and their timeless music, are the perfect addition to Rock Band,” says Mark Pinkus, Rhino’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Custom Product & Sync Licensing. “It’s going to be a blast playing along to songs ranging from the Dead’s earliest hit ‘Truckin” to their final hit ‘Touch of Grey.’ I’m confident that Rock Band will be instrumental in introducing kids to the magical music of Grateful Dead.”
Grateful Dead joins Metallica and The Who as artists offering downloadable content for the game. More artists are expected to be announced as the release date nears. Rock Band is set for release this Holiday season for PS3 Xbox 360, with PS2 and Wii editions forthcoming.
It was revealed through an IGN video that Rock Band will feature sons from Hole and Pixies. The playable tracks are “Celebrity Skin” and “Wave of Mutilation”, respectively. Also, in a corresponding preview piece it was revealed that the Yeah Yeah Yeah track “Maps” and “I Think I’m Paranoid” by Garbage will also be included in the game. All these four tracks will ship with the game.
On Wing One is the original soundtrack from Wing Commander in a DRM-free MP3 format for online purchase. Originally released back in 1990 when soundcards were a rarity, this game pioneered the inclusion of music in games. Enjoy.
The full, official soundtrack listing for Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, the upcoming entry in the popular skateboarding franchise, has been released by Activision. Featuring over 50 tracks from artists such as Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Jurassic 5, The Roling Stones and Bloc Party, the soundtrack will be there besides players as part of their skateboarding legacy in the game. Additionally, MCA of the Beastie Boys appears as an unlockable character within the game.
Here’s the deal:
- !!! – “All My Heroes are Weirdos”
- Airbourne –“ Girls in Black”
- Angels & Airwaves – “Secret Crowds”
- Anglo Jackson – “Motorbike”
- At the Gates – “Slaughter of the Soul”
- Bad Brains – “Banned in DC”
- Beastie Boys – “Electric Worm”
- Blackalicious – “Your Move”
- Bloc Party – “Version 2.0”
- Cursed – “The Hands will Abide”
- Cymande – “Fug”
- Dag Nasty – “Circles”
- Darkest Hour – “Sanctuary”
- DJ JS-1 featuring L.I.F.E. Long & Immortal Technique – “Audio Technician”
- El-P – “Up All Night”
- Folk Implosion – “Natural One”
- Foo Fighters – “The Pretender”
- Fu Manchu – “We Must Obey”
- Funky 4+1 – “Rappin and Rockin the House”
- Future Pigeon – “Gift Tax”
- Gallows – “Come Friendly Bombs”
- Gorilla Biscuits – “Hold Your Ground”
- Jimmy Castor Bunch – “It’s Just Begun”
- Jurassic 5 – “Radio”
- Kittens – “Carpenter”
- Los Abandoned – “Panic-Oh!”
- Lyrics Born featuring KRS-One and Evidence – “Pack Up Remix”
- Maylene and the Sons of Disaster – “Memories of the Grove”
- Motorcity Daredevils – “Bear in the Air”
- Nation of Ulysses – “You’re My Miss Washington D.C.”
- Nirvana – “Breed”
- Oh No feat. J. Dilla and Roc C. – “Move Part 2”
- Paint it Black – “The New Brutality”
- Paris – “The Devil Made Me Do It (Poach a Pig Mix)”
- Percee P – “Throwback Rap Attack (Madlib remix)”
- Pierce the Veil – “I’d Rather Die than Be Famous”
- Pig Destroyer – “Loathsome”
- Reverend Horton Heat – “Baddest of the Bad”
- Revolution Mother – “Come On”
- Roots Manuva – “Chin High”
- Sayvinyl – “That’s Entertainment”
- Silversun Pickups – “Well Thought Out Twinkles”
- Slick Rick – “Children’s Story”
- Smashing Pumpkins – “Tarantula”
- Snapcase – “Energy Dome”
- The Bled – “Starving Artiste”
- The Clash – “Clash City Rockers”
- The Cramps – “Garbage Man”
- The Icarus Line – “Gets Paid”
- The Kooks – “See the World”
- The Octopus Project – “Music is Happiness”
- The Rolling Stones – “Sympathy for the Devil”
- The Sex Pistols – “Holidays in the Sun”
- Twilight 22 – “Electric Kingdom”
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