Tim Wright (aka CoLD SToRAGE) whom many of you may already know as I’ve mentioned his music several times on this site, has just released his latest album called Android Child. I loved his last album MELT with many of those tracks included in my ipod running playlist. His music is great to exercise to and so far it’s helped me run thousands of miles in training and 3 London marathons (and lots of other events).

You can buy Android Child from the CoLD SToRAGE website for £12.99. Also it’s only available as a download (154mb zip) at the moment and consists of 21 tracks that aren’t available anywhere else and a HTML booklet. I’ve bought it and it contains some great tracks.

According to Tim, Android Child was:

2 years in the making, this album is a very personal work inspired by the ups and downs of life and is dedicated to Brian, my father-in-law, who sadly passed away well before his time last year. Whereas MELT was a collection of ideas I’d had for some time, Android Child was composed from start to finish as an entity, and I think the tracks compliment each other quite well.

Hopefully Sony Liverpool will suddenly wake up to the fact that what’s missing from the next Wipeout game is CoLD SToRAGE tracks. Tim’s dropped them a friendly email expressing his desire to be part of the franchise. So it’s over to you Sony Liverpool, time to make it happen.

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I don’t like spoiling people’s enjoyment of games, especially when the game in question is Valve’s Portal. This is a game that really requires a whole afternoon’s uninterrupted game time to appreciate it’s sheer brilliance. So if you haven’t played Portal yet, stop reading this post and go play it. Otherwise prepare yourself for a little spoiler.

There is a song at the end of the game! Ok, not much of a spoiler to be honest. The existence of this highly amusing song been plastered all over the internet since the game’s release. However, some kind soul at topazstorm.com has recently turned the song (called Still Alive and written by Jonathan Coulton), into sheet music which can you find here.

Speaking of Jonathan Coulton, his website contains lots of his other music which is worth checking out. I especially like “Re Your Brains” which has the following chorus:

All we want to do is eat your brains
We’re not unreasonable, I mean, no one’s gonna eat your eyes
All we want to do is eat your brains
We’re at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise:
If you open up the doors
We’ll all come inside and eat your brains

We’ll be reviewing Portal when we manage to stop ourselves from playing it.

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It has been announced that this year’s London Games Festival will start with the Video Games Live concert, which takes place at the Royal Festival Hall on 22nd October 2007, at 7.30pm.

Tickets are on sale now from the South Bank Centre’s website priced £19.50, £25 or £32 (plus £1.50 booking fee). Or you can call 0871 663 2500.

According to the press release the concert will be:

Hosted and conducted by co-creators Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, the prestigious Philharmonia Orchestra and a choir will perform live alongside exclusive video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, electronic percussion, live action and unique interactive segments to create an explosive one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. Guests will enjoy game demos, a cosplay contest with exclusive prizes for the best outfit, game competitions and meet-and-greets with Tommy Tallarico, Jack Wall and other leading industry names.

Video game music to be performed includes:

• Halo
• Final Fantasy
• Sonic
• Warcraft
• Zelda
• Myst
• Retro classic arcade medley - including Space Invaders, Duck Hunt, Pong and Tetris

I’ve never seen a cosplay contest before, so that should interesting if Weefz’s previous cosplay experience at the Final Fantasy XII launch is anything to go by.

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