Videogame Music Composition Agencies Merge

As halo-4-cool-musicmusic composition becomes a more critical part of the videogame industry, consolidation is on the way for the agents who rep those artists.

Four Bars Intertainment is merging with the newly formed COOL Music Interactive, a game-focused division of the COOL Music Group, whose clients have scored several films, including “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “The Counselor.”

Read more at Daily  Variety

Grammy restructuring welcomes video games to the fold

Earlier this year, Christopher Tin won the first Grammy award for a song featured in a video game. Now the floodgates may be about to open.

The Recording Academy has announced a restructuring of its awards that will put games on equal footing with film and television for the first time.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog