It was more difficult than ever to come up with only five great scores from 2013, and even more difficult to put them into an order. Here's number three in the countdown: Lorne Balfe's score for Beyond: Two Souls.
2013 had several outstanding orchestral scores for video games. Over the next four weeks, you'll hear from five of them, starting with number 5.
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It's a game about love, and flowers, and flying, and nature... and there's great music too. Composer Vincent Diamante talks about "Flower" on Top Score.
A new online Game Music Festival launches tomorrow with a goal of connecting fans with the best indie video game music.
This introduction to the music of Guild Wars 2, written by Jeremy Soule, also illustrates how you can learn about other composers — Edvard Grieg, for instance — from video games.
The art in To the Moon is deceptively simple. With blocky graphics, it's a lot like an Impressionist painting up close. But as you sit back, the images come alive. Kan Gao's atmosphere score is much the same.
The Castlevania series of games has great music, including the newest in the series, "Lords of Shadow" by Oscar Araujo.
The Videri String Quartet is a typical string quartet -- with a twist. Although each member of the ensemble is classically trained, the group chooses to exclusively play video game music.
Composer Lorne Balfe wrote music for the game Beyond: Two Souls, which just came out on Tuesday. Balfe's music helps to tell the story of the game, centered on a character named Jodie. And the music is brilliant.
