Christopher Tin winning a Grammy for “Baba Yetu”? There’s more where that came from. As reported by IndustryGamers, The Recording Academy has tweaked four Grammy Award categories to better reflect videogames as a legitimate medium.
The Music for Visual Media, Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, and Best Song Written for Visual Media now have “video game music” descriptors, right alongside “motion” and “television.”
VP of Awards Bill Freimuth thinks this move “could be viewed as a first step in the direction of video games getting their own category.” Why the hold up? “Many people from the game community have been asking us to create a special category for games over the years, but the main reason we haven’t is because we have received very few entries from game publishers.”
Video Game Grammy? Sounds Like It! [Exclusive] [IndustryGamers via Gamasutra]