Audio & Music

Ars Technica reports that a Valve composer publicly said “HLX” during a GameSoundCon panel, marking the first on-record mention of the long-rumored Half-Life project by a Valve employee. The slip...

arXiv cs.GR details Sonic-AMG, a streaming system for generating human motion from spatial audio in real time. The model separates sound content from source geometry, then uses causal motion...

Freya Holmér says AI-generated voiceovers in games are still a rough fit for production, especially when performances need nuance, direction, and consistency. The discussion lands on a familiar...

Hi everyone! We run DailySounds, a free sound effects library: https://dailysounds.org/?ref=gdn There are over 1,100 sounds so far, and a new one goes up every day: UI clicks and notification beeps,...

FNA 26.10 is out, bringing updated FNA3D and FAudio builds plus support for the Xbox 360 “Big Button” controller. The release also tightens up Graphics and audio edge cases, fixes a few regressions...

Hello, I’m Hexit, founder of NOX Team, a Polish collective of audio designers and music producers. We create original soundtracks, sound effects and complete audio identities for games of every...

Godot Engine says 4.8 dev 7 is the last feature snapshot before freeze, shifting the branch to bugfixes and regressions ahead of beta. For teams tracking engine upgrades, this one adds symbol...

GDC Festival of Gaming highlights the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 audio postmortem, where the team says a simple pipeline was one of the biggest wins. For audio, tech art, and production teams, the...

arXiv cs.GR details SsgCaps, a public dataset for benchmarking sound scene generation. The set uses human-engineered scenes tied to structured prompts and only public-domain audio, making it easier...

In Baba Records, every record you buy has to earn its shelf space. Set prices with pressing and condition in mind, bid on auction lots, and stock a shop where collectors, casual buyers and punks are...

Tim Ruswick points to ElevenLabs as a way to generate sound effects for games, framing it as a fast option for teams that need custom audio without building a full Foley pipeline. For developers, the...

One Mote is an incremental game about a single mote of light. You click the crystals around it and their light flows home. You build Collectors, stretch Relays toward the outer rings and bend the...

Hey there gamedev community 👋 I am opening my own Sound Effect market place to other sound designers who wish to sell on my plateform, and the question of the use of AI in the creation process for...

Microsoft has expanded its Designed for Xbox lineup with a Cozy Collection of themed peripherals from 8BitDo, SteelSeries, and KontrolFreek. The set is available now, with matching keyboards, mice,...

FNA 26.09 lands as a maintenance-heavy update with refreshed FNA3D and FAudio backends, plus a long list of accuracy fixes. The biggest practical changes are stricter validation, better XNA parity,...

GDC Festival of Gaming shares a clip of composer Austin Wintory talking through the GDC Developer’s Concert, where even a polished performance can come down to the wire. For teams shipping...

GDC Festival of Gaming spotlights Austin Wintory on how he approaches his most ambitious scores, from Journey to Sword of the Sea. The composer also discusses producing the annual GDC Developer's...

Austin Wintory is the latest guest on GDC Side Quest, where he digs into how he builds game scores through collaboration rather than working in a vacuum. The conversation centers on his creative...

Gears of War: E-Day is getting a limited Gibson guitar collection built around Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago. The two hand-painted instruments turn franchise themes into physical art, and only...

I'm trying to integrate SDL_mixer into my game engine. I want to do this to produce feature-complete demos for my portfolio, but I also want to do it in such a way that I can minimize how much I'll...