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Gaming Music Goes Mainstream

Steve writes "CNN has posted an article about the emergence of a big business in video game music. According to the author, budgets for one game recently surpassed $300,000, with composers being paid between $700 and $1500 per minute of composition, even more 'if it's produced for an orchestra.' The article points out that the production quality of game music has surpassed that of television, where money is rarely budgeted for high-quality soundscapes."

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  1. Slashdot says fire Zonk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Remember that Cosmos I article a couple months back about "solar rails"? Half the comments there were about his typo. Does he proofread before he posts these things? Apparently not; if there is any error in any story I've seen, he has usually been the culprit.

    A Slashdot analogy: /.ing a server is to a DDoS attack as a Zonk story is to a crapflood.

    And now he accepts a submission comparing gaming to female orgasms. Taco should fire him.

  2. important by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I say if a man can't shake your hand with authority and look you in the eye, you shouldn't trust him. That night, my Uncle Eli's handshake had been very weak and limp-wristed. If only I had known what that had meant! Uncle Eli's long, Amish penis entered my ass-pussy with deep penetrating thrusts. Several times the swollen, throbbing tip of his Pennsylvania Dutch dong tapped my prostate. Though reviled by what my father's brother was doing to me in my own basement, my own "yoke and plow" grew hard, the shaft and head beating to the pulse of my excited heartbeat. I prayed Grandfather Moses wouldn't hear us, because secretly I wanted Uncle Eli to sin against God and the Church with me all night long.

  3. Intervention? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jesus, Zonk, you never stop. Is it the crank or the weed? Both? It's time for a Zonk intervention.

  4. ZonkBot5000 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    - Female Gamers

    - Game music

    - Wild Xbox rumors

    - Copy and paste press release from 1up.com, random blogs, etc.

    Does he ever post ANYTHING else? It's like the freak is stuck in a loop.

    Zonk! Hear the people. Stop posting!