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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land On September 20, the same day Epic and Microsoft unleashed Gears of War 3, Sumthing Else Music Works will release Steve Jablonsky’s epic score for the game on iTunes, Amazon and SumthingDigital.com. Are your MP3 players prepared for war?
Pawel Blaszczak, a composer with credits on Call of Juarez and the first The Witcher, is handling the music for the upcoming Dead Island, whose soundtrack will be released separately in the game’s collector’s edition. Developer Techland let the Polish-language site Gameplay hear and share three of the cuts, embedded here and below.
If you head over to the Portal website, you can pick up the official Portal 2 soundtrack for free – just a heads up!
The space-pirate tale Bulletstorm also brought a soundtrack suited to its popcorn-flick tone and motifs. The game’s full 24 tracks are now available for you to grab, 100 per cent free, with 0 per cent cussing from Grayson, Trishka or Sarrano, courtesy of Epic Games. the file is a 130MB .zip and the audio is .mp3. [Epic Games]
The Sound of Speed invites you to cast the bitter, bitter memory of terrible Sonic games into the depths of your sub conscious, and enjoy 13 classic Sonic the Hedgehog tracks remixed by 15 different artists. The best part? It’s all totally free.
Ubisoft, the company that once used a pirate hack to fix one of its PC games, seems to be taking questionable shortcuts once more, as a Reddit user explores their downloadable special edition Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood soundtrack’s shady origins.
