Hello ladies and germs, I just got back from the Audio Engineering Society show 2012, and I am 'hear' to report that The State of Video Game Audio is SOUND!  
Steve Horowitz and Steve Horelick at the educational Panel at AES.
Richard Warp wires up david weiss from sonicscoop.
Brains, brains, and more brains.
Jeff Essex, 1960-2012.

Steve Horowitz, best known for his original soundtrack to the Academy Award nominated film, “Super Size Me”, has also worked extensively on hundreds of games in a variety of formats. His revolutionary work in interactive entertainment has garnered him Grammy, Webby and BDA awards. His latest work includes video courses on Game ... Read More

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I do not think we'll ever seen Ogg support in Apple products for a simple reason: patent trolls and protection from them. Ogg Vorbis claims to be unencumbered, patent-wise, but that doesn't mean it is truly free of those entanglements. There simply is no one taking responsibility for any claims against the codec for infringing, leaving large companies open with bull's eyes painted on their deep coffers.

AAC, however, is defended by MPEG-LA and Dolby, and therefore it is safe for a big company to support it, as they have done their due diligence in licensing the technology from a specific source.

Regardless of what you think about patents and litigiousness, I don't expect to see any of this changing.

What we need is for Firefox to support codecs people actually use, as opposed to the codecs they think people *should* use.

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