Christopher Tin has confirmed on his Facebook that he is composing a sequel to his Grammy-winning world music album Calling All Dawns. Producing the album will take him around the world &151; London, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Dubai, Sofia, and New York &151; to studios such as Abbey Road and stages such as Lincoln Center. He will document his progress with updates, pictures, videos, and behind-the-scenes looks at the composing and recording process on Facebook.

A collaboration between not-for-profit organisations OneBigGame and The Game Music Initiative, charity album One Big Album has been released via Amazon. The album features 17 original compositions by a stellar line up of both Western and Eastern game composers that includes Allister Brimble, Marc Canham, Jason Graves, James Hannigan, Akari Kaida, Frank Klepacki, Masaya Matsuura, Mike Reagan, Cris Velasco, Christopher Tin and Inon Zur. 80% of all net proceeds made from sales of the album will go to The Starlight Children&39;s Foundation and Save the Children.

Revered game designer Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) has released a remake of his 1984 classic Karateka. Based on a rhythm-based combat mechanic, Karateka features an original score by Grammy Award-winning composer Christopher Tin (Civilization IV, God of Love), who in his own words "wrote wrote a highly adaptive, traditional Japanese score for the game, with an orchestrated homage to the music from the original." According to Tin, the music will not only change depending on which of the three selectable characters gamers choose to control, but the score will also react "very closely to every punch, kick, and block thrown by you or the computer."