The HVAC (air conditioning) system in our office has started pouring down gross black/coolant water all over the place! Insanity ensuing… chaos reigns!

Vincent Diamante, composer of “Cloud” and “Flower,” joined a round table discussion this past Games Developer Conference on music and sound design in video games.

Diamante on sources of inspiration:

“I remember a game called Ballblazer. It was by Lucasfilm, back in the mid-80’s before they became LucasArts. It was a first-person sports game, and as you played there was this procedurally generated jazz solo. Some reviews at the time said that the soundtrack sounded like extreme John Coltrane solos. It was for PC and for Nintendo, and I remember playing it at the time, being this young music student, and thinking, ‘This music is different.’ It was this magical thing.”

Click here for the entire Gamasutra article.

Thanks so much to YouTuber Aradoraa, for creating this wonderfully enchanting machinima using the game, “Spore.”

Click here to watch the video.

Can I just say that gamers are awesome? Gamers are awesome.

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The video games news site, IGN, recently published their top 10 favorite PSN exclusives and Flower came in #1! Thanks so much to the IGN team; we are truly honored.  And congratulations to all of the other fantastic games that the PSN group at Sony has supported! If you don’t have a PS3, check out this list to see what you’re missing!