Joris De Man has just made videogame history. He’s become the very first game composer to win an Ivor Novello for his work on Killzone 2‘s soundtrack. He is the proud holder of the Best Original Video Game Score award, managing to beat the music of Savage Moon: Waldgeist and Empire: Total War.
Richard Jacques, Headhunter composer and the man behind the Video Games Live concerts, pushed for a videogame award to be included in this year’s Ivor Novellos. Proud of the accomplishment, Jacques stated in January that the Ivor “shows gaming music is coming of age.”
A great honor, surely, though I am quite surprised Killzone 2 got it. The game has beautiful visuals and is immense fun to play, buy the music? I played that game religiously for months last year, and I can’t even remember the main theme right now. Oh well, congratulations regardless.
