OSVOSTOTY

• Chip Music, Doujin, Featured, Game Music

  3rd Annual OSVOSTOTY Awards: 2011 Nominees Announced

  January 31, 2012 | Jayson Napolitano | 13 Comments Share this 3rd Annual OSVOSTOTY Awards: 2011 Nominees Announced

  

  It’s one of the most wonderful times of year here at OSV.  With 2011 finally done and wrapped up, we’ve been reflecting on all the amazing music that last year saw, and we’ve been excited to get our list of nominees prepared.  It was a tough task as usual (try to get any two people to agree on the best of anything, much less half a dozen people!), but we’re happy with what we’ve come up with.  We’ve changed some of the categories from our 2010 awards to reflect the site’s focus on game music throughout 2011, but we hope that you’ll still enjoy some surprises in the list as well.

  Join us after the jump for our official OSVOSTOTY (Original Sound Version Original Soundtrack of the Year) Award nominees for 2011, and please feel free to chime in and let us know some of your favorite releases of 2011 as well.  Watch for our picks for winner and runner-ups for each category in the coming weeks!

  Hit the jump to see this year’s nominees. (more…)

• Featured, Game Music

  OSV Composer of the Year Award 2010: Garry Schyman

  January 28, 2011 | Gideon Dabi | 3 Comments Share this OSV Composer of the Year Award 2010: Garry Schyman

  

  What an amazing year 2010 was for the world of game music! It may very well have been the best yet. I speak for everyone here at OSV when I say that picking our favorite scores was among the most agonizing decisions we had made in recent memory. Though picking out the best score is an incredibly difficult experiment in subjective reasoning, picking out the best composer of the year proved to be slightly more concrete as evidenced by an uncharacteristic unanimous approval.

  Many composers this year had runaway scores that were simply spectacular and came, seemingly, out of nowhere [I’m looking at you, Alanko (Alan Wake), SoulEye (VVVVVV), and Scott Morgan (Darksiders) – just to name a few!]. Mainstays like the great Russell Brower pumped out two glorious scores in StarCraft II and the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion. But, as is often the case, one horse seems to catch his stride with a bit more gusto and, when the dust settles, shows itself to be the winner. (more…)

• Anime, Chip Music, Doujin, Game Music, Japanese

  2nd Annual OSVOSTOTY Awards: 2010 Nominees Announced

  January 13, 2011 | Jayson Napolitano | 19 Comments Share this 2nd Annual OSVOSTOTY Awards: 2010 Nominees Announced

  

  It’s that time of year again! With the start of a new year, we have all of 2010 to reflect upon, and we’re doing things a little differently this year. If you recall, last year OSV’s editors rattled off their individual top 5 picks for soundtrack of the year, with separate articles for doujin/arrange and chip music releases. This year, however, we’re streamlining things by putting all of our heads together here at OSV to come up with a comprehensive list of nominees and winners that we can all agree upon.

  After the jump you’ll find our official OSVOSTOTY (Original Sound Version Original Soundtrack of the Year) Award nominees for 2010. These are soundtracks for games that were released in 2010, and are not listed any in particular order. Please feel free to chime in on our list of nominees, and watch for our picks for winner and runner-ups for each category in the coming weeks!

  Hit the jump to see this year’s nominees. (more…)

• Game Music

  2009 OSVOSTOTY Awards: OSV’s Picks For Best Videogame Soundtracks Of The Year!

  February 4, 2010 | Gideon Dabi | 18 Comments Share this 2009 OSVOSTOTY Awards: OSV’s Picks For Best Videogame Soundtracks Of The Year!

  

  Welcome to the first Original Sound Version Original Soundtrack of the Year Awards (The O3 Awards for short)! 2009 has been OSV’s first full year in existence, and it’s been a great year for game music. Since everyone else is pumping out his/her top whatever lists, we thought our lovely readers would be interested to hear where we rank 2009’s soundtrack releases.

  Check out the OSV staff’s top picks for the year, and let us know about any soundtracks that came out in 2009 that we perhaps missed.  Find our picks after the jump! (more…)

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