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Posts Tagged ‘Gaming voices’

Martin Sheen, Carrie-Anne Moss, Seth Green, Adam Baldwin.

‘Sounds like a pretty good casting call for a Hollywood flick, but it’s not.  Those cinematic stars (and a few more) are but voices in a video game called: “MASS EFFECT 2″

The game-maker says Mass Effect2, “…is a scifi adventure set in a vast universe filled with dangerous alien life forms and mysterious uncharted planets.”

See what we’re up against as voice-actors?  Apparently stories about VO sacks of money on the front porch are filtering up through SoCal agents…either that, or the economy is in worse shape than I thought.

Anyway, you can read more about it HERE, on the “WorthPlaying.com” website.

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A contract proposal hammered out between the Screen Actors Guild and video game publishers was shot down after a union vote.

That’s the lead line in a story dated 10/29/09 on the Kotaku site.

Click HERE for the details.

‘Great little article featuring a Q & A with James Arnold Taylor who’s done many animated character voices and performed in numerous video games.

Click HERE to see the interview as featured on Home Media Magazine.

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The Comic Book Industry’s biggest convention of the year is coming up in about two weeks in San Diego, and there’s a significant VoiceActing presence.

It’s called Comic-Con.  HERE’s their website.

Legendary voice actors June Foray and Stan Freberg will be special guests.

Know how I tracked-down all this info?  On Voice Chasers — a site whose stated purpose is to be “…one of the leading online destinations for information related to voice acting.”

‘Might not be a bad idea to register (for free) on this site, and knock around with some of the established names there.

At any rate, click HERE to see more information on VoiceChasers about Comic-Con voiceacting focus…or you can sift through a rather busy and complicated Comic-Con website on your own if you’d like. 

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   Click HERE to see the brief story about a spectacular new Star Wars game out that has the distinction of being maybe the first video game with not a single line of text the player will have to read…only voice-actors’ voices to carry the storyline.

Aside from that, it’s one of the best kick-ass game “trailers” I’ve ever seen.  The animation is incredible!

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