Congratulations to Blue Byte and Bloober on their 2019 Golden Joystick Awards nominations!OM London had the pleasure of recording two of the outstanding nominees, Anno 1800 for PC Game of the Year and Blair Witch for Xbox Game of the Year. Cast your votes now!
October also saw the release for Frozenbyte’s greatly anticipated Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince. The iconic side-scrolling puzzle platformer follows Amadeus, Pontius and Zoy…
Mark and Megan will be joining the masses to do the usual business catch-ups, to play and be awed. So, if you’re going and have exciting stuff to share, please do get in touch with us, We’d love to make the time to meet you.
We are particularly into interesting stories, narrative, characters and gnarly performance challenges. And of course, we are sharing news about OM voice recording, face capture and the Los Angeles st…
Our very own Matt Dear, Recording Engineer is featured in this months MCV Magazine. Matt speaks about his own journey getting into games audio, giving great advice to those who may be on a similar path. Whether you might be just starting out or looking to get a full time job in games its a good read.
Check him out in print in the February issue of MCV or in the online article on MCV.
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OM will be attending EGX Rezzed this year. Our very own Project Manager Megan Rice will be helping out on the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair to give one-to-one advice to those looking to get a job games. Alongside other industry volunteers and Video Games Ambassadors she will be holding portfolio review session from 10am – 12pm on Friday 13th April.
The Careers Advice and Portfolio Reviews section of the Career Fair will take pl…
Over the years we’ve cast and recorded voices for many iconic games. Horizon Zero Dawn is our latest venture. For any title, casting the actors to bring the developer’s creations to life is one of the greatest challenges and pleasures of our work at OM. When a developer connects with the actor and the actor with the developer there is a magic that happens which enriches the process of creation and the experience of the player. Â…
We’re delighted to announce that we have opened our first studio in Los Angeles. The studio known as ‘Vault 501‘ is five blocks from the Santa Monica beach.
Vault 501 is the first Game Immersive Voice Recording (GIVR) facility in North America and as such it is a showcase space for both GIVR and Creative Dialogue Tools. CDT is the software that enables the GIVR methodology.
Vault 501Â has an open door policy. G…
As visitors to our Pakenham Street studio are aware, OMUK plays host to a large sword collection, for both authentic sound design & historical interest. Recently, we made the decision to reorganize this collection, with team members taking it upon themselves to construct a rack and secure the swords in a variety of locations. We used some environmental ingenuity too, recycling magnets from the hard drive graveyard to hold the swords in pl…
We’re at Gamescom in Cologne next week 13th to 15th August. We’ve  a fabulous array of titles at the show this year, new tech and our party hats on. It would be great to see you there.
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Today, Part 1 of the PSVita version of Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse arrives on western shores. We had an excellent time providing casting, recording and post production services on the game, and are extremely excited to see it reach an even wider audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uem0wItZVaQ
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The team at OMUK are delighted to have collaborated with Kalypso Media on the upcoming Tropico 5. We provided casting, voice direction and voice recording for the return of El Presidente, and this trailer speaks for the fun we had bringing him to life.
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