Chase Bethea is a Video Game Composer/Technical Music Designer known in the industry as the "swiss army knife of video game composition." His soundtrack for “Cubic Climber” earned a Noteworthy on Destructoid. In 2016, Chase was nominated for Artists of the Year – Independent Composer by VGMO in the entire industry for his “I Can’t Escape:Darkness” score. Chase is a two time NYX Award winner for Best Original Soundtrack for AGROUND in 2021 and in 2023 for On the Peril of Parrots. Chase has also scored Aztec Ride, a highly addictive fun mobile game that shipped on Google Play in October 2020 and was nominated for a Pocket Gamer Mobile Award.
Subaru Camui
Prince-Camui Cosplay is a competative cosplayer from Las Vegas and the lead vocalist in the Otaku Dreams Cafe. They have been cosplaying since 2005 and performing since 2003. They have won many performance, craftmenship and singing awards through the years and enjoys meeting new people who share their passion.
dwangoAC & TASBot
dwangoAC (Allan Cecil) is best known as keeper of TASBot and is security consultant with Bishop Fox by day. He is on staff as senior ambassador of TASVideos.org, a website devoted to using emulators to complete video games as quickly as the hardware allows. As keeper of TASBot he is a Twitch partner at https://Twitch.tv/dwangoAC and a YouTube partner at https://YouTube.com/dwangoAC supported by a vibrant https://Discord.TAS.Bot community. He participates in Games Done Quick and other charity speedrunning marathons, using TASBot to entertain viewers with unique glitches in games that have helped raise more than $1M for various charities.
Adam Gubman
After Adam Gubman’s first game in 2006 (Pirates of the Burning Sea), he went on to score over 1200 video games helping to establish the sound of many iconic downloadable, mobile, and casual titles while maintaining a solid career composing for various media projects. Gubman’s work can be heard in projects for notable clients like Disney (Tokyo Disneyland, Disney Anaheim, WDW), Zynga, HyperGryph, Blizzard (Overwatch 2, Hearthstone), Sony, Dream, King, Atari, Warner Brothers Games, GameHouse, NBC Today, and Warner-Chappell. He is most known for his pop-broadway style songwriting for the games HEARTHSTONE and ARKNIGHTS, and most recently took over as composer for SKY CHILDREN OF LIGHT (thatgamecompany). In casual and mobile, top selling match-3 title ROYAL MATCH helped them redefine the quality standards for this genre. His speed, creativity, and memorable melodic voice that brings unique branding to the projects he works on - he is passionate about all the projects that he touches, and delivers AAA quality no matter the project scope. His company Moonwalk Audio is co-owned with business partner Alex Cox. They pride themselves on creating top quality sound while offering opportunities to folks from all race, class, and gender identity.
As an arranger and orchestrator, Adam has worked on additional music and orchestration for various TV and Film projects, including Sausage Party, Galavant, Ride Along 2, Smurfs: Lost Village, Baywatch, and he provided orchestration for EDM superstar BT’s album ‘Electronic Opus’. His production work on Greatest Showman (This Is Me) granted him a double platinum record. Online streams have yielded over 100 million views. Gubman is also known for re-branding the NBC Today Show theme with Warner-Chappell Music Group, and has done numerous licensing and custom audio packages for TV News programs all over the world. Orchestration clients have included collaborations with Alan Menken, Chris Lennertz, Austin Wintory, Tom Salta, Pasek and Paul, BT, Warner-Chappell, Disney, and many more.
Midnight Pursona
Midnight Pursona is an award-winning competitive cosplayer out of Las Vegas, NV. For 12+ years, Midnight has been bringing entertainment and joy through her masquerade skits and TikTok videos. She enjoys creating unique make-up looks and creating designs and costumes wherever she goes. As a POC, Plus-Size, Queer cosplayer, Midnight advocates strongly for equality and diversity in the community and is open and happy to sit down and have a discussion on how to improve the community to make it more inclusive and welcoming for everyone. A few fun facts about Midnight: She has a giant love of cows and plushies, she entertains friends weekly on her Twitch channel, she’s also an artist, and she's always ready to be a cosplay mom if you need one.
Mason Lieberman
Mason Lieberman is an award-winning composer, audio director, and producer known for his contributions to the gaming and anime zeitgeist. He prides himself on being a problem-solver whose biggest passion is always to connect people through music.
Having started his professional journey as a freelance composer, he got his start composing on anime series like Rooster Teeth's RWBY and Beyblade Burst Evolution, amongst many others. His music has enhanced the heroics of franchises like Spider-Man, Mobile Suit Gundam, Ultraman, and Neon Genesis Evangelion, while lending epic gravitas to titles like PUBG Mobile, Apex Legends Mobile, Teamfight Tactics, EVO, Eden, Game for Peace, Devil Engine, Soundfall, Renaine, and many others. In 2019, he partnered with Asia Pacific government officials as an international ambassador to Australia representing the video-game music industry. As a cellist, guitarist, and vocalist, Mason has had the great pleasure of working with a wide variety of film and gaming franchises, with personal favorites including Pokémon, Stars Wars: Visions, The Rising of the Shield Hero, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. franchise, Riot Games' League of Legends, AMC's The Walking Dead, Made in Abyss, Arknights, Tower of God, Warhammer: Vermintide, Sega’s Sin Chronicle, Hell's Kitchen, and God Eater.
As a public speaker, Mason Lieberman has addressed passionate audiences on subjects related to film scoring, anime music production, video game scoring, and music theory. He has lectured academically at acclaimed academic programs like Harvard University, UCLA Musicians Institute and Berklee College of Music, industry-leading conferences like NAMM, SXSW, and GameSoundCon, and many others.
He is a member of faculty at the University of Southern California, where he lectures on video game audio for the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media and Games department.
He was thrilled to present the official Cowboy Bebop charity single, ‘The Real Folk Blues’, in collaboration with Funimation, Sunrise, featuring special guest artists like Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, Steve Blum, and many, many more. This original arrangement hit #6 on Billboard global Digital song sales chart, as well as #1 on rock charts in Japan. In 2021, he shared the ‘Best Score’ award at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards with the rest of the team of ‘Tower of God’. He also received the 2020 GANG award for “Best Casual or Social Game Audio” for his contributions to Tencent’s wildly-popular ‘Game for Peace’ soundtrack. He was honored to be a part of the Forbes 30 under 30, Gaming category for the 2022 list.
He is currently in-house as a senior composer and game audio supervisor for Tencent, the largest video-game company in the world. In this position, he has the indescribable honor of working with many of the best audio professionals in the industry on a daily basis.
Mason endorses the NS Design CR6 Electric Cello and Auralex Acoustics.
George "The Fatman" Sanger
Internationally known as The Fat Man, George Alistair Sanger’s influence is hard to overestimate. Through his work, his writings, the founding of think-tanks, organizations and communities, this “legendary game audio guru’s” fingerprints are all over much of what it means today to create game audio or listen to a game. He’s been at it since Thin Ice for Intellivision in 1983. Games he worked on include Loom, Wing Commander I and II, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Maniac Mansion, The 7th Guest I and II and Oddword Soulstorm. He wrote the first general MIDI soundtrack for a game, the first direct-to-MIDI live recording of musicians, the first Redbook soundtrack included with a game as a separate disc, the first music for a game that was considered a “work of art,” and the first soundtrack that was considered a selling point for the game. Sanger established and managed the team that made the sound system for the Augmented Reality device, Magic Leap One. He founded and ran think-tanks that solved audio issues and created standards (Project BarBQ) and tackle game design's biggest issues (Project Horseshoe). He wrote a book (The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness) that has attracted many to make a career of game audio. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from GANG (of which he was member #1) in 2015.
He continues to write songs constantly, score games, advise businesses on Product Strategy and give lectures, workshops and keynotes worldwide, while teaching and administrating at Mid-City Community Music, a non-profit Arts organization.
Virtual Video Game Orchestra
Formed in March 2020, Virtual Video Game Orchestra (VVGO, "vee-vee-go") is an online volunteer-run music ensemble predicated on providing a musical performance outlet for musicians whose IRL rehearsals and performances were cancelled due to COVID-19. Led and organized by members from various video game ensembles, and with a community of hundreds of musicians from across the globe, VVGO is open to any who wish to participate regardless of instrument, skill level, or musical background.
Our mission is to provide a fun and accessible virtual community of musicians from around the world through performing video game music.
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Anne Yatco
Anne Yatco is a Filipino American voice actor (and former forensic scientist). She is most well-known as the English voice of Raiden Shogun in Genshin impact. Nobara Kugisaki in Jujutsu Kaisen, and Sabine in Miraculous Ladybug. Anime credits include Pompo the Cinephile, Vampire in the Garden, The Prince of Tennis, Platinum End. Biue Period, Sakugan. To Your Eternity, Beastars. Violet Evergarden: the Movie, The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter. Godzilla Singular Point, Devilman Crybaby, and I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years. Video game credits include Fire Emblem Heroes. Ghostwire: Tokyo, Shadowverse, Smite, Paladins. Naraka Bladepoint, Epic Seven, Onmyoji Arena, Guardian Tales, Wasteland 3, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Anne is also a Twitch Partner, and regularly streams Genshin Impact and other games.
Cory Yee
Cory Yee is a Chinese American voice actor, most well-known for Gorou in Genshin Impact Akito in Ghostwire: Tokyo and The Beholder in the award winning To Your Eternity. Cory grew up in Southern California and early on found a passion for nerdy and creative outlets. Loving video games, animation, musical theater, vocal ensemble, and improv, Cory had the seeds of voice acting planted early on. But because of his Chinese American heritage, acting as a profession always seemed like an impossibility. Still wanting to pursue storytelling, Cory went film school and spent nearly a decade in every job for on set production. However, filmmaking wasn’t as fulfilling as he hoped, as acting was in his heart. After transitioning to the Voice Acting side of the industry through immense hard work and the good will of many, Cory considers himself to be incredibly fortunate to be able to do what he cares about and wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.