Winners of the 4th Annual Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Awards

Last Thursday night, March 23rd, 2006 at the annual Game Developers Conference, the 4th annual G.A.N.G. (Game Audio Network Guild) Awards ceremony was held.

This yearly event is where composers, audio engineers and other sound related professionals in the videogame industry come together to honor one another's achievements from the previous year.

2006 G.A.N.G. Awards Winners
Best Original Instrumental Theme
"The Tragic Hero" from Peter Jackson's King Kong - Composer, Chance Thomas; Performed by Northwest Sinfonia Orchestra; Engineers, Reed Ruddy and Sam Hofstedt; Recorded at Studio X, Seattle WA

Best Original Vocal / Pop Song
"Katamari on the Swing" from We Love Katamari -
Composers Yuri Misumi, Hiroshi Okubo, Masashi Sugiyama, Katsuro Tajima, Hideki Tobeta, Akitaka Toyama, Yoshihito Yano, Tomomitsu Kaneko, Kanako Kakino

Best Original Vocal / Choral Song
"Muse" from Advent Rising - Composer, Tommy Tallarico
Emmanuel Fratianni, Laurie Robinson-Fratianni, Michael Plawman

Best Original Soundtrack Album
Jade Empire - Composer, Jack Wall

Best Use of Licensed Music
Guitar Hero - Executive Producer, Will Littlejohn

Most Innovative Use of Audio
Guitar Hero - Executive Producer, Will Littlejohn; Audio Lead, Eric Brosius; Audio Systems, Ethan Fenn; Audio Director, Kasson Crooker

Best Dialogue
God of War - VO Business Managers, Amanda Wyatt and Chip Beaman; VO Coordinator, Jacquie Shriver; Recording Engineers, Elliot Anders, Bryan Celano, Dutch Hill, Stephen Zipper, Ethan Allan; VO Editors, Bryan Celano, Dutch Hill, Justin Langley; Production Assistant, Mark Camperell; VO Casting and Direction, Keythe Farley, Douglas Carrigan; Additional VO Recording, Future Post Production Ltd.; Additional VO Casting, Ginny McSwain

Best Use of Multi-Channel Surround In a Game [Tie]

Call of Duty 2 - Audio Lead, Mark Ganus; Composer, Graeme Revell; Mixing, Mark Curry; Sound Design, Mark Ganus

F.E.A.R. - Director of Audio/Sound Designer, James Ackley; Sound Designer, Kristofor Mellroth, Brian Pamintuan, Kristen Quebe; Audio Software Engineer, Terry Jones; Sound Design Assistance, Cassano Thruston
Composer Nathan Grigg; Warner Bros. Sound Dept, Ron Fish (Sound Designer), Gregory J. Hainer (Sound Designer); VP Post Production. Warner Bros, Kim Waugh