Final night time’s Grammy awards ceremony was the primary ever to incorporate a class for one of the best rating soundtrack for a online game, and final 12 months’s Murderer’s Creed Valhalla enlargement, Daybreak of Ragnarok, took residence the win.
Extra particularly, the DLC’s composer, Stephanie Economou, received the Grammy for her rating within the recreation. Her different credit embody Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy and contributions to the scores and soundtracks of flicks like The Martian, Mulan (2020), and extra, as reported by Selection. The publication studies that Economou thanked “the entire individuals who fought tirelessly to carry this class to existence,” thanking them for “acknowledging and validating the facility of recreation music.”
Selection additionally studies that previous to this 12 months’s Grammy awards, online game scores and soundtracks had been eligible within the present’s rating class however solely earned one nomination in additional than 20 years. That nomination went to Austin Wintory for his rating in 2012’s Journey. Wintory was nominated this 12 months, this time for his Aliens: Fireteam Elite rating, alongside Bear McCreary for Name of Responsibility: Vanguard, Christopher Tin for Outdated World, and Richard Jacques for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
Economou’s Grammy was awarded throughout the primary present’s pre-show section, hosted by Randy Rainbow, who might need not been accustomed to Murderer’s Creed Valhalla, if the way in which he introduced the sport’s identify final night time is any indication.
For extra in regards to the recreation, learn Sport Informer’s Murderer’s Creed Valhalla overview after which learn our impressions of its Daybreak of Ragnarok enlargement.
[Source: Variety]
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