Live interview with Composer Kevin Riepl via Tinychat

Join us FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM PT (7:00 PM ET) for a live, video, interview and chat with composer KEVIN RIEPL (GEARS OF WAR, UNREAL TOURNAMENT, HUXLEY). He will be sharing about his brief trip to this year's Comic Con (from a composer's perspective) and some of his latest projects including the upcoming game ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES and the mysterious DAMAGE VAULT project. We'll take questions in the chat room, so come ready to fire away!

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Epic News: Gears of War to become Legendary?

And the two shall become one...

Here's a bit more news on the convergence of the film and gaming industries. Once again, Variety reports that apparently, LEGENDARY PICTURES is in acquisition negotiations with EPIC GAMES - the developers who blessed the world with their Unreal engines and also gave us the GEARS OF WAR and UNREAL TOURNAMENT game franchises.

The GEARS OF WAR movie was put into the pipeline some time ago, but if this acquisition happens, it will be the first time a film-financing company invests in video games (according to the Variety article).

The blurring of the gaming and film worlds continues. While there has yet to be a truly great film (or respective film score) based on a video game yet, I see this trend as mostly a good thing. We essentially get two shots at getting at least one decent score for any one franchise.

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