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The Big List 2021: Resources for Game Music Composers by Winifred Phillips on 03/15/21 08:27:00 am     The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   Glad you're here!  I'm videogame composer Winifred Phillips, and every year I compile a "big list" of the top online resources available for game audio folks.  It's an evolving list that e...

Echtra Games Being Acquired By Zynga The team behind Torchlight 3, Echtra Games, is officially being acquired by mobile game powerhouse publisher Zynga. Zynga was apparently interested in Echtra Games based on the team’s pedigree in the gaming industry. Echtra Games will immediately be put to work with Zynga’s NaturalMotion on a currently unannounced cross-platform RPG. Torchlight 3 is available right now for Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Echtra Games has thus far only released Torchlight 3 but apparently, that was enough to garner the attention of Zynga. The studio is currently...

Video game maker Zynga Inc (NASDAQ: ZNGA) acquired the cross-platform game studio company Echtra Games because the industry is heading in a clear direction ...

Ordinarily this wouldn't even be news, much less news that I felt the need to revisit and pick apart in a weekly column. Online gaming has a certain percentage of awful people, and publishers will, on occasion, give them the boot. But this story is interesting for a few reasons. First, the target of the racist abuse was former pro footballer Ian Wright, one of the stars of yesteryear who has been featured in FIFA's Ultimate Team. Second, the abuse in question didn't take place in a game of FIFA. It was actually hosted on Instagram, where an 18-year-old sent Wright 20 angry messages after losi...

The acquisition of Echtra Games could play a big role in growing the value of this gaming business.