| Vocalist and Songwriter Eri Kawai Dies at 43Eri Kawai, who worked with Yasunori Mitsuda for several years, especially on his solo album Kirite and, more recently, on the RPG DS Soma Bringer, died on August 4 in Tokyo. She also took part in many anime series, such as Romeo x Juliet with Hitoshi Sakimoto. May she rest in peace. |
| First Sample from RIZ-ZOAWDThe official website features the first audio sample from the game, which soundtrack will be composed by Michiko Naruke and Hitoshi Sakimoto. The BGM track is probably by Sakimoto. |
| Square Enix Music Presents Legendary TracksSquare Enix has started publishing a series of soundtracks for their older gamers on iTunes. "Live A Live" is already available, "Bahamut Lagoon" and "Rudora no hihou" will follow shortly. For the Japanese store only. |
| A bonus CD for preordering Infinite Undiscovery"Square Enix × Xbox 360 Sound Collections" is set to feature music from Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant and Star Ocean 4. Release date for Infinite Undiscovery is September 11 in Japan. |
| PS3 Eternal Sonata to have new musicThe PS3 version of Eternal Sonata (JP: Trusty Bell) is set to feature new music by Motoi Sakuraba and pianist Stanislav Bunin. Release date for the game is September 18 in Japan. |
| Press Start 2008 website openTaizo Takemoto, Masahiro Sakurai, Nobuo Uematsu, Shogo Sakai and Kazushige Nojima reunite for their annual video game music concert, on September 14 in Tokyo. |
| Luminous Arc 2 bonus disc: Luminous SymphonyA "movie" containing the 8 tracks from "Luminous Symphony", a limited bonus disc given with Luminous Arc 2. Music is composed by Akari Kaida, Shunsuke Tsuchiya and Yoko Shimomura. You need to have an account on Nico Nico to listen to it. |
| New sample from Lord of VermilionThe updated official website features a new sample from Square Enix's upcoming arcade game. Soundtrack is composed by Nobuo Uematsu himself. |
| Mitsuda working on new DS RPGYasunori Mitsuda is working on Sega's World Destruction along with Xenogears veterans Masato Kato and Kunihiko Tanaka. Scheduled for Summer 2008. |
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